Monday, July 27, 2009

Zucchini experiment

I tried dehydrating zucchini slices using various flavorings: salt and vinegar, miso dressing, and soy sauce.

They still taste like zucchini. However, I think dehydration is a good method of storage, and it would be easy to throw some of these into soup or a stir fry.

Red tomatoes!

Two of the cherry tomato plants now have ripening tomatoes:


Amazingly enough, I actually have a few little pickling cucumbers growing from the vines that were almost completely eaten to the ground when I got back from Ireland:

Monday, July 6, 2009

Visions of green...

..tomatoes. I planted four varieties this year, and all have tomatoes growing on them now. They are:
Brandywine:


Sweet 100's cherry tomatoes:


Classic romas:


And the potentially bizarre-looking Black Sea Man, which is supposed to end up black on the outside and vibrant pink and green on the inside. Right now, just a normal green color: