2011 Garden Wars: The compost pile, week 5
Look who just got launched into the compost pile this week! We would like to welcome our second loser, Jorge Salgado, to the place where gardeners go to die, so that they may live! Jason Guard Foreground: strawberry vines, encircling the garden. Right: as yet fruitless tromboncino squash, climbing up a makeshift bamboo trellis. Background: […]
Look who just got launched into the compost pile this week! We would like to welcome our second loser, Jorge Salgado, to the place where gardeners go to die, so that they may live!
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Jason Guard
Foreground: strawberry vines, encircling the garden.
Right: as yet fruitless tromboncino squash, climbing up a makeshift bamboo trellis.
Background: a giant roma tomato bush, producing and thriving.
Left: a flowering eggplant stalk, otherwise underachieving.
And that’s it.
Oh wait. Almost forgot.
Center: Frankie, our rotund pug, reacting to the word “treat”.
These Black Krim heirlooms were bursting at the seams after the rains that came through recently. Aside from a couple splits, they tasted great straight. But, also a good backdrop for some good quality olive oil, aged balsamic, basil leaves, and fresh mozzarella. Next up, chunky raw tomato sauce tossed with Bombolini pasta, washed down with cold pilsner.
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Jorge Salgado
Apparently my kid pleading for votes didn’t help… so this week’s bounty is brought to you courtesy of instagram! Pretty, huh? Right… RIGHT??
And the instagraming (sp?) continues!! This is what became of those delicious tomatoes above. We sliced them, we diced them (not really) and munched them down. When I say this may have been the best tomatoes of the season, I’m not kidding. Surely much better than anything out of Smartt’s garden. ZING.
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PUGS! Frankie is a good-looking dude, Jason.
I vote Salgado!!! Do these count for anything??
I vote for the Compost Pile! What an amazing batch of heirloom tomatoes, sumptuous basil/tomato/mozzarella salad, and — most importantly — a stately, “rotund” pug. Yum to all.