We had BLT's made with some more of the hydroponic tomatoes.
I'm getting ready to make my banana nut mini-muffins this morning. Waiting for the butter to soften a little more.
Update: I had more bananas than last time so I made a 1.5 batch and got 96 mini-muffins.
My wife felt weak for two days after her 2nd shingles shot, though I had less of a reaction, just a sore arm for a day. Hope you don't have a big reaction to it.
We had some of the leftover ham for supper last night and then went to the theatre for Parsons Dance. They were great! (I think I got sore muscles just watching!)
We had spaghetti with meat sauce and some Parmesan cheese bread.
We had a ham steak with pineapple for supper, plus salad.
We had tacos, using up more of the hydroponic tomatoes. Kinda fun to have fresh flavorful tomatoes in April.
Not only is it closer but our son has a close friend in Troy NY, so she would have someone in town she knows.
RPI has a pretty good reputation in the sciences, too. This was probably her second choice after MIT, which didn't accept her. (There were already several students from her HS who were accepted by MIT, so she might have run into a geographical balance issue and just missed the cut.)
So far about 20 of the tomatoes have sprouted.
I put in about 60 leek plants today.
We had tomato and salami sandwiches and a salad (with more tomatoes).
We took a slice of the meat loaf, put some of the hydroponic tomatoes on them and covered that with some cheddar cheese. Very tasty.
We're definitely having something with tomatoes tonight, because I just picked another 2 pounds or so of them. I got some Genoa salami, so salami and tomato sandwiches may be on the menu, plus a salad with more tomatoes.
We're having left over pizza for supper
I talked to one of the plant professors at Nebraska-Lincoln today (he did his PhD on tomatoes), he says I probably need to add potassium to my nutrient mix, as it is vital in the transfer of sugars to the fruit. Insufficient light may be a contributing factor as well.
I think the plants probably had too much nitrogen during the vegetative state, that causes them to get leggy, with overly long internodes. I will be switching to a different fertilizer mix for the next iteration of the tomato hydroponic garden and I think I'll probably reconfigure the lights as well.
But the first cycle was intended to be a learning process for me, that I'm getting some good tasting tomatoes, even if a bit small, is encouraging.
BLT's tonight, the tomatoes were small and that made the sandwiches a bit tricky to hold, but they were quite good.
They're small but tasty, we had BLT's for supper tonight.
