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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Bye-Bye, Love!


Mother Nature's summer sun gold bounty was quite wonderful this year, but I fear the end approaches. Today, as I ventured out into the garden, I knew this would be my final gathering of these luscious cherry tomatoes that I have been enjoying all summer.

The lettuce was delicious, the cucumbers were plentiful, the early girl tomatoes were delightful; but it was the sun golds that, once again, knocked my socks off. Because they are so sweet and flavorful, I find that much of my harvest is eaten before I even get them into my kitchen. Now the leaves of the forlorn plant are withered and brown; and, though a few desperate hangers-on are still trying to ripen, this is just about the end of the line.

So, thank you and farewell. Until next year...

8 comments:

  1. so sad to see it endbut it does make us apreciate it more when it returns,, lovely post.

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  2. Jan ~
    Homegrown tomatoes ~ YUM!
    I am so not ready for it to end :(
    Hugs :)
    Lauren

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  3. oh i will def miss the tomatoes....they are my favs of the summer....looking forward to cool weather though...

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  4. I'm sorry that it's ending for you but delighted that it's beginning for me. Light at 6am this morning, wonderful! And the smell of jasmine on my neighbour's fence a sure sign of Spring.

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  5. I'm still waiting for my tomatoes to ripen. Please ripen. I'm so ready!

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  6. lovely photo I love garden veges...I failed on mine this year. Boo ! tomatoes still possible but I haven't gotten a ripe on yet. I still holding out that one will ripen.
    KAT

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  7. How wonderful to have a food addiction that's actually good for you. I'm a vegetable lover too, and there's nothing better that the produce right off the vine or out of the ground. You live in a non-frost area, don't you? Will there be winter vegetables to tide you over until next year?

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  8. Great photo! The stems look like little green stars. We are still getting tomatoes...yum : )

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