Come on heirlooms!! The last tomatoes to ripen every summer. Making me anxious about the fair. I need two ripe tomatoes of the same variety. The Howard County Fair starts Saturday, and I need to get my vegetables and herbs ready for entry.
I currently am drowning in tomatoes, and getting ready to process some tomorrow. Unfortunately those heirloom tomatoes on the tray are from the CSA, and not my garden. I have at least five German Johnson that are close to ripe. I hope to pick them Tuesday or Wednesday. I have enough cherry tomatoes to enter, and enough plum tomatoes. Need a couple more medium early girls to get the minimum for submission.
Besides tomatoes, this year I have enough onions to enter.
There were 24 onions left in the ground last week. I had to find the five best out of them. Fun job. Besides the onions, I harvested the rest of the leeks and the shallots.
My onion/garlic/shallot bowl is overflowing. Time to do some roasting and get them ready for winter.
I have herbs for entry. Just can’t figure out which ones I want to pick.
And, finally, enough variety to make the vegetable display, which needs five different varieties of vegetables.
See you at the Fair!
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