July Update: Harvest+ Clean Up + Fall

It's the end of July!! The summer seems to be flying.  It's been a busy, busy weekend.  I lost two days during the week due to a freak'n cold.  I literally slept for two days and spent any time awake stuffing myself with spicy, super hot soups and stews.  I was eating my weight and then some in food and I think it worked since yesterday, I felt almost 100% with tons of energy!! 

Anyway, end of July means harvest time in these parts... 

Fried Green Tomato BLT

I am a Southern girl.  I've come to terms.  I once considered buying Emeril's dutch ovenesque smoker to smoke meats in your oven while living in Cali because I had a hankering for BBQ but couldn't find it the way it was made in the South. I also have a hankering for fried green tomatoes every summer.  I LOVE fried green tomatoes and they have to be made with cornmeal.  CORNMEAL!!  Not panko and not a mix of flour, panko and super fine cornmeal.  JUST CORNMEAL.  Just like southern BBQ needs to be smoked, fried green tomatoes ain't right if it's dredged in anything else but cornmeal.

It is tomato season right now.  My tomatoes are just starting to ripen. I'm growing a green heirloom variety, Emerald Evergreen.  Perfect for a fried green tomato BLT!

July 2013: Garden Update

It's July already!! Where did the time go?  I LOVE July because the watermelons and melons are in full swing!!  I spent the 4th with family and left the garden to do its own thang.  I came back to total chaos!!  With all of the rain we've been getting, the garden just went crazy and took over the yard. I LOVE IT!!  That's my kind of chaos!! Nature taking back the hood. The grass and weeds were so overgrown in the melon/watermelon bed and my winter and summer squash plants just took off crawling out of the beds!!!

These are the summer and winter squash plants.