It’s chilly here on Widder Island.
Samhain is over and the Dead have returned to the Otherworlds.
The wee hobgoblins and ghouls who knocked on our door for treats are recovering from their indulgences and are nowhere to be found on the wild and windy streets of our neighbourhood.
The red and brown leaves from the Summertree are carpeting the yard, stark on the shaved lawn that received its last mow of the season the day before.
Remember the tomatoes I mentioned in my ‘Shed’ post?
They were actually part of an experimental planting loosely based on a ‘Maiden/Mother/Crone’ (or ‘three sisters) concept. We planted the tomatoes with corn and scarlet runner beans.
Rampant Abundance
A matter of timing, and smoke for their prime growing season, left the corn and beans coming in all puny … but the tomatoes did wonderfully.
Our back yard is bordered by the most magnificent line of cedar trees, but unfortunately it’s the south side of the block and the sun can’t budge the shadows from early October on. Our lovely greenery soon looked like this …
As the season turn, turn, turns
Although the plants were still bravely flowering and fruiting, we bit the bullet last weekend and did the deed. Rain was forecast and once the autumn rains really set in out ‘gardens’ turn to mud.
Setting up the patio for winter
For a summer that had very little else going for it, being able to snack on these tasty little nibblets made all the difference … halved tomatoes with cilantro, basil, and parsley, all from our garden.
Don’t you just want to eat it all up!
Mud…I understand winter mud, thanks to the dog and the moles 🙂
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The land in front of the lake is often pimpled with mole mounds but funnily enough we have never had a single one in our back yard, until the other day when I spotted a suspicious upwelling of dirt. Maybe they came for the tomatoes! 😀
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Just hope they took a wrong turn at the intersection or else that will be the last of your lawn 😉
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Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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I have been trying to cut our grass for a week now, but its always too wet. It hasn’t rained for ages, but the mist is so thick, it drowns everything!
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We only managed it by the skin of our teeth. We had three days with a fair amount of rain then a day of gale-force winds that dried up a goodly amount of moisture … otherwise, I’d be out there with the weed-wacker, which isn’t a possibility I wanted to dwell on at all. 🙂
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I am contemplating turning it into a vegetable patch!
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Sounds like a great idea to me. 🙂
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I’ll need someone to do the digging though!
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Great salad. I wish we could beam over some of our warmth
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Thanks for the offer, but I think I’ve had enough warmth for a while … I might feel differently come March … you never know. 🙂
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🙂 Many thanks, Widders
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Yes! I do want to eat it up! And those rains have arrived. A short summer this year.
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Mine seemed to go on forever, and ever, and ever … 🙂
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Snow last night! Way too early!
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Thankfully it didn’t stick around for long, but geez! it was chilly today! 😀
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Your tomatoes look so yummy. I suppose we ought to pull up our tomato plants today. The weather guys say rain for the weekend. Would you do the 3-sister concept next year? We realized this year that the best sunny spots for a veggie garden are on the concrete or the front yard. Hmmm, be cool to have corn growing in the front yard.
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Corn would indeed be very cool. 🙂 … we’re definitely going with the tomatoes again … might have to separate the beans and corn from them a bit, so there’s enough light and room to grow for everyone.
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Snow for us too. Cold and dry this morning. Brrrrrrrrrrr!.
and still work to be done outside. Autumn was way too short.
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Ahh, that’s what that one day between summer and now was! 😀
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Toss all that into the blender with a squeeze of lemon juice, roasted jalapenos, and you got yourself some fresh, homemade salsa. Yum!
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O yeah! … also the best spag bog I’ve ever had! 😀
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Those tomatoes look unbelievably tempting!
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Heh, heh, heh … they tempted us beyond measure, so we ate ’em! 😀
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