More Tomatoes and a Patty Pan Squash

Here are a few pictures that should give you a good idea of where we're at with our gardening.

The above picture is of some tomatoes that I picked today. Aren't they pretty? There's a Cherokee Purple, around five Green Zebras, and some Yellow Pear tomatoes. There are also some of my mom's grape tomatoes and regular red tomatoes there too.

To be perfectly honest, I'm starting to get tired of tomatoes, which is a shame, because our heirlooms are ripening really fast now. My mom's tomatoes were much earlier, so I was enjoying those before our heirlooms really got going.

I'm thinking about trying a pickled green tomato recipe from the Williams-Sonoma The Art of Preserving book, only it'll be a variety of pickled heirlooms. That way, myself and the rest of my family will be able to enjoy them in the winter. I'll have a post about that later if I do try it.


This is a lovely heirloom tomato salad that Jennifer and I made one night last week. It's a combination of all of our heirlooms, and a few of our mom's tomatoes. Jennifer cut up some basil to sprinkle on top. It's basically your standard tomato salad recipe with oil, vinegar, and salt and pepper.

And last but not least, this is our first patty pan. I noticed today that there's around six female blossoms in total between all of our plants, so I hope we'll manage to get a few more before the end of September.

Megan