Yesterday evening after my run I went out to begrudgingly pick tomatoes. It's usually around this time every year that I have picked so many tomatoes that I just let them rot on the vine. This year, I have vowed to have a more productive harvest and be more diligent about preserving the bounty. The easiest way for me to save tomatoes is just to blanch them and throw them in a Ziploc in a freezer. I could can them but that would take up a lot more time.
So I go out to pick the 'maters and happy joy! One of my banana cantaloupes is ripe!!! I would usually allow it to slip from the vine, but the color and heavenly aroma told me it was OK to go ahead and pick. Also any time the fruit in my garden begins to split, I pick it...even if it isn't ripe yet. It can finish ripening inside away from the hoards of bugs and pathogens. Pictured here clockwise from top right are Zapotec pleated tomatoes, banana peppers (and one pimento pepper in the middle), Roma tomatoes, and red and yellow cherry tomatoes. The banana cantaloupe is in the center of it all.
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