Summer Harvest - here they come

[Grub]

They sure look like the BCW I've been after. What's your source? Hope they taste good. GS looks nice and tasty too.

Been doing maintenance all day. Off for a week tomorrow: a boat, some million-dollar wine, 111km (67 milies) of river, the fishing gear, the trilogy of Lord of the Rings, books, food, herbs, this and that and more.

Hope my garden survives

[Mantis]

Well arn't you just having a ball.
Got a short week of work (well mostly xmas parties) next week then 4 weeks off. Lined the missus up for what i want her and the kids to give me for xmas. A Navman for the commode. (that will get the northeners thinking LOL)
Just booked 3 nights in Melbourne at the Downtown on Lygon. We will be in Carlton or southbank for new years eh. Last time we stayed there we went for a walk up Lygon st. The kids were taken with all the sprukers outside the eateries. Looking forward to it eh.
Ps. Don,t sink the bugger in a river LOL

[travis]

Beeeee-youuuu-teee-ful tomato plants!

Delicious lookin' tomatoes

But about that bacon ...

Don't you fry it up first ... before eatin' it I mean?

PV

[Mantis]

We prefer our bacon browned not seared yo.
My old camera doesn't throw up the correct colors eh.

[Spatzbear]

Mantis, that looks fantastic! Yummmmyyyy... Gary O' Sena sounds like a great tomato.

Great news - MY FIRST TOMATO!
Broad Ripple Yellow Currant. Little tomato - BIG taste:

[Mantis]

And about time too
Nice looking tomato. Bet it didn't last long

[Mantis]

Heres a selection of some of the larger fruit. Clockwise from top left are: Box Car Willie, Brads Black Heart, Berkeley Tie Dye, Gregoris Altai, Grubs Mystery Green and Gary O'Sena


Heres the kitchen bench


Today most of them are in a batch of sauce (ketchup) to which I have added two jars of pickled Jalapenos and 10 Green cayene peppers. When it has cooked down some more I will churn it all up with the bamix.

[Suze]

Lovely pics! Just the motivation I need for starting seeds here in a couple of weeks.

[honu]

Wow! Gorgeous pictures Mantis and Grub!

[Mantis]

Heres the finished sauce/ketchup. Got a good bit of a kick to it with all the peppers in it. Sweet and Hot

[Grub]

Congratulations Mantis.

Any new winners in respect of individual taste?

Just got home and picked a Sophie's Choice. MIL has been eating some Kimberly and Sungold.

Heaps of pepppers coming. But the big ones are just getting bigger

Merry Christmas to you and your family, too.

Best, Grubs.

[Mantis]

Thanks Grub.
Gary O'Sena is a good one with a different more complex flavour than other blacks I have tried. Not suprising with the parents it had.
Brads Black Heart, well, I hope the next one is better. The first was mealy, dry and bland to sour even.
Berkeley Tie Dye is fun to grow cause it pumps out beautiful and very large fruit. The taste is fruity and on the mild side. But very good.
A big suprise in Pink Ping Pong. Very meaty little fruits with a great sweet flavour, hang on I'll go get a pic.

Very prolific as well which is good..

Hows the weather up there. Looks like storms on the radar?

[Grub]

Good news on the Ping Pong... I have one in my dud patch. But all the plants there are coming along now. And Bully always liked PP.

Got some serious thunder storms, rain drops big enough to almost be hail, and breaks in the weather.

Plants are threatening to swamp the house. Need another truckload of pantyhose.

[Mantis]

Sounds like you are going to get swamped in more ways than one. Its threatening a shower here but thats about all we get.
Anyway, I had better get going on the crayfish mornay for tea.

[Grub]

Mmmmm... can only flash my crab cuts from a week of catching, cooking and eating them.