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| Tomatoes are the garden star in August, followed closely by those glowing purple eggplants. |
After a strange summer with a June that tried hard to be winter—and almost succeeded— and many night temps in July and August dipping near 50 degrees, the garden has finally come around. The fruits of our labors are spilling into the garden trenches, and the bounty pictured above is typical of what we harvest a couple times a week in late August into mid-September. Melons are peaking and yesterday we picked seven more of the sweetest juiciest-imaginable cantaloupes living up their name, Ambrosia.
The eggplants are abundant but a challenge. What to do with about 100 of them? Here are a couple ideas:
