Harvesting Full Bloom

In the midst of tomato season the nasturtium plants are finally blooming. I love to add the blossoms as a garnish atop fresh tomatoes.    Not just for 'pretty', but because they have a peppery flavor! Yes, the flowers and leaves are edible.😉.   

Also learned you can dry them, crumble or grind them and add to salt as a seasoning...looks lovely and pale green when added to Pink salt.  We had it on an angel hair pasta side dish last night. Yum.

Need to get serious about more tomatoes tomorrow, pulling some whole ones out of freezer and making some sauce and tomato paste too.  I often use a 2-3 step process.  Freeze  a few days, (til enough are accumulated) then crockpot, strain and can into sauces or juice. 

 

The days are changing, aren't they?  September is just a few more cricket-chirps away.  The flowers seem to be deep and bright, trying to outshine the late summer sun before the autumnal golds and rusty tones overshadow them.  Our oak trees already dropping leaves, but they do that all winter too.

The Landing geraniums are shamelessly still full summer.

Geraniums SO remind me of my mother. Her home window boxes were full of them. And then, like most elementary school teachers of her era, she would bring them to school and they 'cheered up' the windowsills of her classroom all winter long.  The children would get to tend them and be reminded that even the snow was just for a season.  Even now, we clip our geraniums back, bring them to the cellar, and repot then put them out then next winter.  

Housekeeping is a challenge during produce-wrangling season. I have a bin properly labeled IRONING.

Like I don't know it's there waiting for me?! There may be 4-5 aprons in that tote, but that's a discussion for another post...

 Dearest Mom would often remind me to save-some-ironing for her to do when she would come to visit. 

And when she arrived, she loved to help with it, but would always tell me,

"If you just keep up with it, it would be SO much easier for you!"

I miss even that.... 

Til later...praying...D.