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  • So beautiful!
  • These will be pickles soon
  • My weekly 1-2 gallon harvest of basil! I get about 2 pints of pesto per week.

Today is the last day of July. This means that tomorrow is…AUGUST! In the past 24 hours we’ve seen the first few Italian Plum tomatoes start to turn red. We thought it would never happen.

  • You’re blushing!
  • This big tomato came from a dying plant
  • Peek-a-boo little Tom! I love how the tomatillo forms the paper, then grows the fruit to fill it.
  • My perpetually dirty, gardeny fingernails.
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Look at this beautiful waste of space.

A tomatillo plant with hundreds of flowers

It’s a flower-filled tomatillo plant that will never bear a single tomatillo. We didn’t know that it needed a second tomatillo plant in order to produce fruit. The person who gave it to us only gave us one plant, along with a bunch of tomato plants in exchange for wood chips. Now it’s taking up precious garden space.

I am going to rip it out and plant lettuce, because i know that Josh wanted to plant lettuce this year. Hopefully it’ll stay cool enough for the lettuce to not bolt.

Ground control to Major Tomatillo, goodbye…