Tunnell

Made a tunnel yesterday with PVC and clear plastic. Didn't work out exactly as I thought it would but it might just hold up. Need a good wind storm to really know.

Made a toasted garlic-roasted chile-tomato-savory sauce last night. Used New Mexico #6 and Numex Anaheims. Surprised at how much it tasted like an enchilada sauce.

Cut up two more honeydew melons today. mmmm. The nose wasn't too much, but they started to get soft after yellowing. One is sweeter than the other but together in the same container melds them. Appears that eating melons seasonally in Colorado means October. I think the last one might ripen after Nov 1.

Down to 1 big yellow bowl of green tomatoes. The four section plate is full with the ripe ones.

Peppers are good. I have a big bag of ripe multicolored peppers in the fridge. The chocolate beauties have come nicely from the green to brown since I picked them all two weeks ago. The ones in the bowl are getting wrinkly.

G ate almost the last of the cucumber tonight...

First harvest of Tuscan Kale. Its a superb late planting. Had our first daikon and long red radishes.

The large chicory and the escaroles are not handling the cold--some getting tip burn. The raddicio is doing great but not sure I'll get heads before the hard frost comes.

The basil under the new pergola still hasn't frozen!

Not sure, don't think any of the larger brassicas or cabbages are going to make before freeze. Looks like they might need to be either a lot bigger transplants or planted a lot earlier--hard to say--but Aug 15th didn't get it done. Kales are doing fine though.

that's all.

Rain in drops and a clean garage

We're getting some rain tonight. Smells nice.

Made tomato paste this morning with san marzano, orange banana and cream sausage. Added in some brown berry and a juane flamme. Cooked down pretty well. Hadn't ever done it before--had always made sauce or soup. Now frozen for a later date. So sweet.

Also made a zingy gingery (too much.) green juice.

Redventure Celery
Shogin Turnip thinnings
Golden Streaks Mustard
White Satin Carrot
Ginger
Curled Leaf Parsley Stem
Di Cicco Broccoli Raab Stem
Large Abruzzese Tortarello Cucumber.

The white satin was sweet enough to balance all the greens -- but not the ginger. N liked it anyway.

N made a roasted tomatillo salsa. Thanks Josh and Dani!

tomato(boxcar willie)
numex anaheim chili
garlic(not sure what type. Have to be more careful in the field trials! ;)

For dinner we had wilted greens of baby spinach, bulls blood beat, and five beet chard. beneath thyme rubbed seared scallops, kochoba squash(bought), spiral pasta, and shitake. Earthy but light was what I was trying to get--sorta worked.

The tromboncino, oh my. Still going strong. We have three large trombones in the house. Still 2 more on the plant... This late with no, and I mean none, powdery mildew. Zuchetta Rampicante, just rolls right off the tongue.

Finally, brought in another muskmelon. It is sweet like it should be. The other one maybe did get the cucumber pollen.