I had a very green salad for dinner last night. Romaine, a gifted avocado and a small Green Zebra tomato just picked from the back yard. I'm blown away by the taste of this tomato; it's so opposite on the scale in taste from the store bought stuff that I can't believe we haven't all revolted against the grocery stores for what they are trying to pass off as a tomato.
Right now the small raised bed that I have on the South side of our house doesn't get a full 6 hours of sun so the the tomatoes are on the smallish side. All I have to do is get that front yard landscape to a point where I can grow my veggies out there. Our fence is halfway up and the sheet mulching is about a third of the way there. The sheet mulching is several layers of newspaper topped with several inches of mulch. The idea is that it will all break down over several seasons and I can avoid rototilling. Info on this can be found in the wonderful permaculture book Gaia's Garden.
Sunset recently posted a blog entry on tomatoes which I think is great. It lists several "best of" tomatoes including a drought tolerant one for those of us who sometimes forget to water and a cherry tomato with great ratings. I myself just planted an heirloom called "Ananas Noir" that I was lucky to get for free at a presentation I went to for work. Sounds mysterious, no?
My friend Heidi just sent me a link to this website that she discovered: Culinate. How good does this sound?: Roasted Squash, Pear, and Ginger Soup.
