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This month my neighbours and I have more growing than we can harvest and eat so there is quite a bit of food sharing going around. Almost daily I get a delivery of somthing, like a giant bowl of fresh figs, that I turn into some lucious creation. I have also now organized a farm fresh egg delivery in my city neighbourhood and been out picking wild berries – all making for a crazy first few weeks in August.
I’m currently harvesting the following veg from my home garden and the community garden plot:
Beans: Purple Peacock, French Filet
Peas: MammothMelting Snow Peas
Tomatoes: Black Russian, Siletz, Sweetheart Grape, Gold Nugget Cherry, Sungold Cherry, Isis Candy Cherry, Red Zebra, Tumbler
Sema Fino Florence Fennel
Beets: Detroit Supreme, Red Ace, Chioggia, and Golden
Chard: Rainbow, Fordhook Giant, Rhubarb
Peppers: Filius Blue, Garden Salsa
Basil: Organic Sweet Basil, Thai Basil
Squash: one Gold Nugget was ready at the community garden
Potatoes: Red Chief, French Fingerlings
All this has made for some interesting recipes like carmelized figs, fig ginger jam, walnut pesto, and mixed veggies ragu. I’ll be sure to share very soon. If I can get out of the kitchen long enough. help.
Are those figs on the first picture? I love figs and hope that ours will ripen soon.
Oh the thought of caramelized figs makes my mouth water. I rarely eat them up here in the north (though supposedly there are varieties that can fruit up here).
Hi Vtlarica – yes, they are figs, from my neighbours tree in Vancouver. I get a bumper crop delivered to my door every year!
Your tomato harvest is impressive. I have to remind myself to plant more varieties next year so I’m not so dependent on just two of them.
Those tomatoes are making my mouth water! Walnut pesto? Say it aint so! :) We need that recipe!
I love to see all these beautiful vegetables, though I’ve never lived where I could raise figs. Your photo is a tomato rainbow. This is truly the month I can eat most meals from my own Garden. You inspire me.
What an awesome harvest. I love the collection of tomatoes you have, So far I have only harvested a couple of cherry tomatoes. The summer has been so cool and foggy that they are taking forever to ripen.
I love this time of year, eating mostly from the garden. Your tomatoes look fabulous.