First off, we had the zucchini crush. We have eaten zucchini bread, boiled zucchini, sauteed zucchini, baked zucchini fries, minestrone soup with zucchini, chocolate zucchini cake, ratatouille, you name it we've eaten it.
I've still got zucchini in my fridge and I've give some away but the plant production has slowed so I think I have a grip now.
Good thing because now I'm overwhelmed by tomatoes! I grow three varieties. I love each of them so much, I'm not willing to give them up now that I've found them after years of gardening. I grow Sunburst cherry tomatoes - they are orange and are as sweet as grapes. These plants are hardy and grow like crazy but it's not a problem because the girls eat them like candy.
I also grow two varieties of red tomatoes - Celebrity and Early Girl. I love these. They are meaty and just the right size. And this year they are off the hook crazy. I am getting at least 25 tomatoes a week. We obviously can't keep up, but I'm trying. I have already canned a bunch. I have also canned salsa and made spaghetti sauce. Plus we have eaten fresh tomatoes in as many ways as possible. Just yesterday I canned salsa and made spaghetti sauce and guess what is still sitting on my counter? A huge pile of tomatoes. I refuse to even go back out to the garden to pick anymore right now.
The good side of all these tomatoes is that I don't even sweat it when the squirrels and chipmunks drop into my garden to eat them. What's a few lost tomatoes when you have hundreds? In fact, I was just telling my neighbor that we have fat squirrels because of the well-rounded healthy diet they get from our yard--plenty of protein and fat from Dave's bird seed and fresh vegetables from my garden.
I'm complaining but not too much. I like having fresh vegetables and do appreciate having the canned food later on, so we will continue on, the season is almost over, right?!
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