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Some critter(s) is eating my tomatoes on the vine. I don't know what it is, I'm pretty sure it's not the suspect pictured below because I am doing container gardening and the containers are on carts which puts the containers several feet above the ground.
Anyway, this was 15 years ago. I had my first tomato of the season turning ripe, I was going to pick it the next day. In the early evening I went out there to water the plants, I was standing there with the hose watering each plant individually. A rabbit came out and sat near the ripening tomato. I never chase the rabbits away. Then his nose starts to twitch and the next thing I know his mouth is on the tomato like a vampire on a vixen. Several thoughts raced through my head but then I realized this was a Kodak moment. I gently put the hose down, slowly backed away and went to the house, got my camera, changed the lens to the longest I had, went back out to the garden and found the rabbit was still there.
In this pic, he is sticking his tongue out at me as if to say, "Go get your own, buddy, this one is mine!"
I made a blueberry buckle. I used Alton Brown's recipe from Good Eats, made a couple of changes. He calls for cake flour, I used KAF Whole Wheat Pastry flour. I subbed walnut oil for the butter in the cake, the topping calls for 2 ounces of butter, I used one ounce and 2 tablespoons of walnut oil. He calls for 3 cups of blueberries (15 ounces), I used a pint because that is what I had. After I poured the batter in the pan I realized I hadn't put in the blueberries, so I put them in the pan and folded them in the best I could. The cake baked up nice and the texture is light. I'm happy with it.
I have been concerned about my peppers. Back in June I reported that peppers were starting to form but really it was very little behind the blossoms. The plants kept growing and lots of flowers but the fruit was going nowhere. Well, they are starting to grow now. The peppers are a sweet red variety, not a bell type, they are from Burpee and are called PeppiGrande Red Hybrid. I checked the Burpee site and see they are 80-90 days to maturity, which explains why there hasn't been too much action until recently. I did give it a couple of doses of Epsom salts in the past several weeks, as that is supposed to be beneficial. The basil in that container is doing great. A couple of weeks ago I harvested some to make pesto sauce.
