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chika
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a highlight of summer 2023: tomatoes from our own yard. first tomatoes of our very own. this has been the first summer we dared planting tomatoes. and we were as stunned as we were thrilled to find ourselves actually harvesting not just a few but quite a lot of these gems over the course of the month of august. at the end of last year i did a post about how our immediate environment had changed in the preceding year when they'd cut down a large number of trees in our part of the forest. our humble little place is now more exposed to the elements than before, and one of the immediate effects is that we now get a lot more sun. which has proved both a blessing and a curse, but given how we never used to get enough sun for the edibles to survive, let alone thrive, i count our harvests as a blessing indeed, we feel very grateful. (another success was romano beans, one of my favorite summer vegetables.) so we've been enjoying our cherry tomatoes mostly as is - we'd wash them in a colander, leave it out on the table, and snack on them over the course of a day. i did however make a salad once, using some fresh basil (which happens to be another thing that didn't use to survive in our yard before). we are expecting to harvest some more as the summer heat lingers on. #tomatoes🍅 #homegrown #gardentomatoes #howisummer #家庭菜園 #shewhoeatsfromthemarketsandfarms.