Since I posted my last blog post about our jungle garden, we've actually seen some fruit of our labors. We harvested our first tomato on Monday and then two zucchini yesterday. With the tomato we made a wonderful caprese salad with basil, fresh mozzarella and olive oil. Yum! (Shout out to Aldi for having fresh mozzarella balls for wayyyy cheaper than Kroger! I heart Aldi.)
Liam happily eyeing the first tomato
The best summer salad!
Liam is not so sure about the green garden veggies
We also had our first major garden mishap with one tomato plant getting top heavy and toppling the cage over. Of course this had to happen at 10:00 at night when I was getting ready for bed...
So Rob and I were out back with the mosquitoes and a ski pole and clothesline and Rob wearing his head lamp trying to create a makeshift stake to hold the plant upright. It felt like we were on an episode of the Amazing Race trying to work together to complete some kind of weird challenge in the dark. We finally managed and the clothesline (no ski pole was necessary for this challenge after all) held overnight until Rob got to the hardware store for some real stakes. Then I noticed tonight the other plant has given up and fallen over...
Next year we're going to do a lot better with several things in our garden! Namely, buy bigger tomato cages...!
1 comment:
I love that we're harvesting our gardens together! Our cherry tomato plants are on steroids, and the rest of the garden is doing well, too!
I have a delish tomato recipe for you.
Turn your oven onto broil (high). Slice several tomatoes into thick slices. Lay flat on a lightly oiled baking sheet and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Then add mozzarella and parmesan cheese on top of slice. Broil for 4-6 minutes, until cheese is golden and bubbling.
I loved this recipe and I usual don't like plain tomatoes. So there you have it. :)
-Lindsay
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