Eating from the porch

I'm having a hard time finding time to blog.  Too busy living life and all.  :)  BUT we are finally enjoying the fruits of our labor in a literal way.  Tonight's supper was black beans, feta, lime and basmati rice wrapped in fulka roti, plus homegrown tomatoes and onions and garlic from the community garden.

I'm officially a fan of the upside-down tomato growers.  I have two hosting cherry-sized tomato plants, and the one on the shadier side of the porch is producing like gangbusters.  The one in the sun has been battling blight (I think), but is still providing a small handful of ripe tomatoes every day.

If we had to live off our harvest, obviously we'd starve.  We have the luxury of gardening simply for the joy of it.  And I've been enthralled with every ounce of our homegrown produce.  We've had good luck with mesclun and romaine lettuce, a total of four sweet peppers, handfuls of cherry and sun sugar tomatoes, and herbs (basil is my herbal obsession this year).  I'm still waiting to harvest the garlic, though I suppose I could pull it up in a pinch.

My pride and joy of the garden is my only surviving heirloom tomato... To anyone else I know the plant is spindly and pathetic, but I see honest effort, both on my part and that of the plant.  It's survived me, cutworms, slugs, flea beetles, inadvertant overwatering, and crazy Texas weather ... I will definitely save the seeds.