Heirloom tomatoes and white peaches
I was listening to the songs of crickets tonight; summer is here in the mountains of North Carolina. They were delayed compared to the Piedmont, not surprisingly, but are singing loudly now. I've been harvesting lots of tomatoes since I returned home (to the mountains) and have been trying to shore up the vines (the lightweight tomato cages available at the big box stores simply can't support the weight of Cherokee Purple and Summer Feast tomatoes without extra support). I thought I'd taken a picture of the raised bed vegetable garden since returning, but apparently not! I slow-roasted a batch of sliced Cherokee Purples overnight, and stuck them in the freezer. They'll be summer magic in the winter, for sure. And there are lots of green Summer Feast tomatoes that were casualties of the tipped-over cages. I'll need to see if they ripen well, or not -- they're quite big, in any case. I succumbed to buying a basket of white peaches at the Western North Carolin...