last tomatoes

Here's a little animation of the last of the Robesons as they ripened and got used.

update

Cleaned up the raised bed and harvested all the tomatoes, including green ones. You can juuuust see a couple of red Robesons on the top of the trash heap at right. They were so well-hidden, they rotted on the vine (sob!).


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Garlic chives gone to seed:



OH HAI!

mustard harvest

Processed the mustard seeds. The procedure, according to the internets: pick mostly-dry seed pods/branches (before the birds eat them all); let dry completely; thresh by crushing/mashing/stomping on them in/over something to catch the seeds; sift out the chaff; winnow any remaining chaff (preferably outside), either by gently blowing across it (for small amounts) or by pouring seeds and chaff from one container to another. I did it indoors, and about had a asthma attack from all the dust.

Mashing threshing with a potato masher, in a colander, set over our big stainless steel bowl:



Before winnowing:



Mustard seeds! I ended up with about a 1/4 cup.

visit to the new Santa Fe Botanical Garden location

The Santa Fe Botanical Garden has been working on their new garden up on Museum Hill, near my office. They had a free public open "house" this afternoon, so I walked over after work to check it out.









It was one of those perfect days.


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what’s blooming

Asters:



Garlic chives:



Maximilian sunflowers:



Roses:

update

Picked a bunch of tomatoes, they're still going strong.



The late rains we got made a lot of them crack. Robesons:







Sungolds:





Mustard, in the raised bed and picked:







Basil, gone to seed:



Thyme:



Over in the side bed, lots of Kuri squash, unearthed after the cleanup: