My camera is at E's school today so I can't take a picture for you, but the green tomatoes are still here. I made two batches of marmalade. One batch is extra sweet. One batch is bitter in an authentic, marmalade-y way. I like the bitter one best, of course, because I'm a bitter old hag. Or maybe it's because I'm so naturally sweet that I need the bitter to balance things out? (I wonder which one Jon Stewart would like best? D likes the sweet one.)
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the rest of the green ones, though. If I could find some cheap hot peppers, maybe I'd make another batch of salsa verde.
My friend P wondered why I'm wearing myself out with these green tomatoes... maybe I should just let them go into the compost pile... I just can't. I want to "win" this cosmic challenge or "do right" by the energy that went into growing the tomatoes.
I'm not doing a lot this morning. I need to run off to return some ballet things that E didn't like. There are good pinto beans cooking on the stove, and the last of the reddish tomatoes are roasting in the oven with onions and peppers. I think I'll make some chili with them all. My mother often made chili for Halloween.
After I emptied the compost bucket, I went up to the top of the garden and picked a bowl-ful of figs -- maybe 10 Brown Turkeys -- the most I've ever harvested at one time because the tree is so young.
Happy Samhain!
How long did it take your Fig tree to make that many figs? I only ask because we got one little one off our 2-year old tree this year. It's a really little tree.
Posted by: Taylor | October 31, 2008 at 07:30 AM