We just thought we would show a picture of the tomatoes! Within one week the tomato plants went from being lush beautiful plants to brown foliage. Many of the tomatoes have brown spots on them as well. We are shocked to see this at this time of year. It is not unusual to have some Late Blight later in the season as the name suggests. However, by then we have already harvested many tomatoes. To have this occur the end of July is something that we have never experienced in our over 30 years of gardening. Apparently, early Late Blight is a widespread problem all over the Northeast this year.

The good news is that the peppers and eggplant (from the same plant family) are fine and producing well. We hope to still be able to harvest some tomatoes, but the yield will be considerably reduced.

The melons have started and we will continue have sweet corn as the successive plantings mature. Look in the index for recipes for Corn Cobs. The cobs make flavorful soup stock and there is a recipe for Corn Cob Syrup too. In the same entry there is a Creamed Chard recipe we usually have Swiss Chard in an “Extra Bin”.