Tomatoes at 1245

This Memorial Day weekend, we focused on....tomatoes! And tomato containers. The original goal was to add two plants to our existing two (a Brandywine and a Cherokee Purple), which I planted about a month ago and which have gotten to be about 4' tall. Only one fruit so far, and they've been experiencing blossom drop, but I ordered some special blossom set spray from Burpee that everyone seemed to like, so here's hoping.


We started a Pike's where the plants were two for one -- which was a sign of the plant quality -- had to look hard to find good plants but ended up with a Celebrity, a Big Boy, a Better Boy and something else. Then went over to Hasting's, which is where we should have started. From there, we departed with a Mr. Stripey (Alan's choice), a Yellow Jubilee, a Yellow Pear, and a Grape Tomato. All went into various containers, including a reuse of one of our cat litter containers to attempt an upside down tomato plant, which were all the rage in the internet forums. That was yesterday's DIY adventure. Today's was to create a homemade self-watering container.

Community Supported Agriculture

Awhile back the Atlanta Journal Constitution ran an article about Emory's efforts towards serving regional and organic food. It stimulated me to look for Community Supported Agriculture programs in the area that were taking new customers and we signed up for the one from Farmer's Fresh Food. We pick up our weekly bag at our local Whole Foods on Wednesdays and every week have 5-7 items, including vegetables, herbs, and on one occasion, eggs. It has introduced us to some new foods like kale, collards, and turnips, which are surprisingly delicious when roasted with onions and garlic in olive oil. We also get lovely fresh lettuce, with so much flavor compared to grocery lettuce.



This week we got this huge cauliflower, whose taste is so sweet and texture delicate. All in all, we love getting our vegetables and fruits this way and it's leading us to new choices which is fun, too.