In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen
The first red bell pepper deserves a celebration, even if it is September. This one was ready only a few days before our recent trip to the Canadian Rockies and I savored every sweet, crisp strip. I saved the second one for my faithful garden tender who kept the garden going for the week we were away.
While I await the green to red transformation of the other bell peppers, I’m enjoying the Baby Belle Peppers from Renee’s Garden. With so many, I flash freeze halves for winter uses.
A quick pizza prepped for baking before lacing with mozzarella.
The best Dwarf Rosella Purple Tomatoes of the season are those from the last several weeks. Problems with worms in the tomatoes (which I’ve never had) have abated and shapes are more regular. Some of the irregularities may be related to weather conditions around pollination. Epic Gardening has a useful piece, Eight Causes of Irregular and Deformed Tomatoes .
The five plants look very “late season” but as I look closer I think my garden tender must have faithfully removed diseased leaves.
With some large overripe tomatoes stashed in the fridge before our trip I made a large amount of tomato soup with the addition of two large cans of Cento Crushed Tomatoes. Half went to the freezer when later we’ll savor the summer goodness.
One picking yielded just over two pounds a few days ago. We’ll now let the Emerite beans set seed for next year’s crop.
Delightfully, this year’s crop of strawberry guavas are mostly in the one inch size range which makes management and sharing much easier. We do wish we knew why some years the fruit is larger. I delivered a gallon zip lock bag of guavas to a family of Mexican heritage this weekend. The mom said her four boys would likely devour them all in one sitting.
While we’re talking subtropical fruits, my neighbor and I swapped green beans for passion fruit. I feel like the winner.
Continuing the seasonal color theme in fruit and flowers, Sunday’s church entry bouquet.
Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I begin to plant the cool season garden. Then head to Harvest Monday, hosted by Dave at Happy Acres blog and see what garden bloggers around the world harvested last week.
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