Topic: tomatoes
Although we haven't had a hard frost yet, the nights are in the high 30's F and the days aren't warm enough to develop more tomatoes, so I picked all the remaining sungold tomatoes from the deck pots. I left them on their stems in the hopes they'll develop a little more. There are lots of green ones. But I've found that these tomatoes in all stages of ripeness add a unique sweet flavor to homemade chicken soup, so they will not go to waste.
Yesterday I drove north to Palmer and helped a friend build a couple of compost piles with the remains of her garden, and leaves from under alder bushes (alders fix nitrogen so those are rich for compost). My garden is still mostly out there unmolested. I'm letting the kale and potatoes continue to grow until there is a frost. I'd better get the chard and lettuce, what's left of it after the slugs, pretty soon or it will be wasted. The sugar snap peas have dried up although the sweet peas are still blooming mightily.
