Summer Already???

As the title implies, it's already hot! In fact, it's unseasonably hot. Unlike last year, when it seemed like it would never get hot enough to plant tomatoes, it got hot really early. One night it was 39 degrees, and three days later, it was 85-90. I've got all the tomatoes and peppers in at both the farm and our house, although I just finished getting the rest of the peppers in row 3b yesterday. One of the plant phrenology indicators is that it's warm enough to plant tomatoes when the blackberry bushes bloom. And here we see that they are blooming.

And the tomatoes themselves are all blooming. I had to cut off this tiny tomato before I transplanted the plant.

Buddy had a good idea to transmute the standing planter into a compost sifter.

The wheelbarrow fits underneath nicely, and the sifted compost is beautiful.

The greens are doing great. We've been eating lettuce and chard.

Along with peas and the first tip pinches of basil. Some of the basil plants got munched by snails, but the rest are thriving.

We're also getting lots of snow peas, with the golden ones being especially prolific.

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What We're Eating
Egg salad made with chard stems and onion scapes, served with lime pickle and preserved lemon, eaten with lettuce and homemade pita bread. At the farm, we nibble peas straight from the garden as snacks. I've also made fava hummus, and I'm about to make a bunch more.
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Boy do we have favas! I picked lots of big meaty pods from 9th Street.

The beans were well formed.

My pan wasn't big enough!

Titus and Jane continue to help us get 9th ready for the new tenants, who move in tomorrow! Jane helped us pick colors. We're going with the last two on the strip, with the lighter being the base color, and the very dark, almost black being the trim color. The third color is white around the inside of the window frames, just to match the white of the new windows.

And we had Rock Band last week. Delina brought her friend Dave, who was pretty good for a noob--and less noobish than he let on.