Tomatoes - FAIL

Oh, tomatoes. We had such plans for you. Sadly, our crappy weather and blight had other plans. Laura planted over 40 tomato plants, including mostly organic and some heirloom varieties.

Here's what she planted:

• Kellogg's Breakfast
• Black Cherry
• Gardener's Delight
• Martino's Roma
• Black Krims
• Heinz Processor

Hopefully we will be posting our yummy salsa and green tomato chow recipes and pics next year. For now, here's the sad result from this year.

Boooooooo!

Alliums

Laura planted the entire allium family this year:

• Chives
• Garlic
• Leeks
• Onions
• Scallions
• Shallots

The garlic didn't do so well...not even a scape. However, we are planting more this fall so next spring they'll be in the ground and ready to grow all season.

The onions are coming great! They will be ready to harvest in a few weeks. There are a couple dozen at the most, but that's still a couple dozen organic onions more than we had. 

We've been eating the scallions since June. Always nice to be able to run out to the garden to grab supplies for supper. 

We have a few chives too. We didn't really plant them, so much as they sort of grew through the moss covering the soil in the pot they've grown in for the past few years. We didn't cultivate them as we should have, not even so much as removing the moss. We suck. lol

Today is our first harvest of both the leeks and the shallots. Laura picked 4 leeks and 4 shallots, all if which will be in a Leek & Potato Soup shortly. (see recipe below image)

Leeks and shallots

Sauteing leeks, shallots and fresh herbs

 Evenly chopped carrots and potatoes,
cooking separately to ensure even cooking and less starch

Soup and buttermilk biscuits

Leek & Potato Soup:

2 carrots
4 shallots
4 leeks
2 cloves garlic
3.5 cups cubed potatoes
olive oil
chicken or vegetable stock
coffee cream
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
fresh marjoram
fresh parsley
fresh thyme


How does this all get put together into a soup? I can only guess - Laura's working on that part. I shall be trying to get her to impart it. Anyone who knows anything about making soups would be able to figure it out without instructions. Basic, right?