The tomatoes are starting to ripen, and by the end of the week we should start to see plenty of tomatoes, and should continue to see ripe tomatoes through September YAY !
I am hoping to make a batch of Pomodoro sauce on Friday with the Super San Marzano's, a 4" heirloom roma tomato that we planted, and our Sweet Basil. I love the fresh crushed tomatoes with basil and garlic to throw over a little pasta.
We had a tomato salad on Sunday, our Stupice and Golden Delicious heirloom tomatoes drizzled with olive oil and topped with basil, also from our garden.
Thrilled to see that corn is starting to grow. We may only get a one or two ears per stalk but we will enjoy every last kernel of the corn. We would definitely plant more corn next year it has been very easy to manage.
Pollinate your Zucchini, by hand? I had never heard of this but I highly recommend it.
We toured the garden of our friend Ken Mano a few weeks ago and had a discussion about pollinating zucchini. Ken mentioned that he had been losing fruit in its youngest stages, until he started pollinating the zucchini by hand.
I came home checked our plants and realized the same thing was happening to us, I found several small zucchini, that had started to shrivel, they were only 2-3 inches in length and were also discolored, kind of yellow/brown.
I have since this time been pollinating our zucchini by hand and am having positive results. I simply wait for the bud on the fruit to open slightly, and then take some pollen from the stamen of an open flower and transfer that pollen to the stamen on the bud connected to the fruit. It takes a few seconds, but is well worth it.
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