The talk all around our area is the “tomato situation.” Some people are not getting any to ripen, others a few, and only a couple of people I’ve talked to feel they’ve gotten a good amount. Most everyone, though, has loads of green tomatoes on the vines just refusing to ripen, including me.
After writing about the tomatoes I was finally getting in and making two batches of Roasted Tomato Sauce, they sort of petered out on me. I’m only getting a small basket every couple days of greenish-pink tomatoes that I bring inside to ripen. I now have about three bowls that look like I could make a batch of salsa with- finally! This is pretty sad for someone who has eighteen tomato plants and is used to canning most of them throughout August and September.
I’m trying not to be stingy- we’re still going to eat them, ’cause there’s nothing like fresh tomatoes- but a part of me wants to toss them all in the freezer until I have enough to can and not let anyone have any. Which is weird…what should I care if we eat them fresh or later canned or frozen? We’re still eating them either way…
So they’re still part of the menu, along with the zucchini, corn, hot peppers, onions, beans, chard, and the romaine lettuce that’s ready this week.
I just love a vegetable garden- even when everything’s not going my way!
Monday- BBQ Ribs with spice rub, grilled zucchini, Fresh Corn Casserole, smashed potatoes, sliced tomatoes
Tuesday- (first day back to school- ack!!) Corn and Sausage Tart, artisan bread, green beans with vinaigrette, tomatoes & feta
Wednesday- BLT’s and corn on the cob
Thursday- Chicken, zucchini & pepper kabobs, rice, Green Beans with Tomato & Carmelized Onions, garden salad
Friday- Tomato soup, shrimp salad, artisan bread with pesto
Saturday- Homemade pizza
Sunday- Extended family work day- bring a salad?
-Jami
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Glad to know I’m not the only one in Oregon whose tomatoes are not ripening.
The only one on 5 plants that has started to turn red was eaten by my chickens!!
Our garden fizzled out the first few weeks of summer we got about 8 strawberries, one green cucumber, 3 yellow cucumbers, and about 8 cherry tomatoes, so much for an Oregon garden this year. The tomatoe plants are still there but very straggly even the flowers in our courtyard didn’t do as much as previous years. The weather has been too weird.
No joke about the tomatoes. That’s okay, between our nine plants, we get enough daily to eat that day, but nothing more to can. Every time a Roma ripens, I put it in the freezer and once I get a good bag, I’ll make sauce. Oh well, some years are bumper crops, some years aren’t.
I was gone this weekend, so didn’t get a chance to post to SAD saturday. I’ll do it next week though because i have a few things I’d like to share.
Our tomatoes are less than wonderful this year here in Eugene. Several plants have stunted and turned pale yellow. Others just have a very few green tomatoes. Very disappointing.
Sounds like a great menu for the week, have a great week.