Sorry, folks. I’m not going to be at the Clintonville Farmers Market this weekend. I don’t have any vegetables ready, and I don’t have enough jam left to sustain sales for the duration of the market. I do have more peaches in the freezer to make more jam, but as I was sterilizing the jars to get started, I realized I’m out of sugar. (I make jam at night so I’m not heating up the house during the day.) If I wait for a grocery store to open and go buy more sugar, it’ll be late enough by the time I’m done that the jam won’t have time to set up before the market starts. I emailed Laura (the market manager) to let her know I won’t be there this week, but I’ll be there next week.
In the mean time, I still have this giant mushroom in my fridge. Nobody’s expressed any interest in it, so I guess I’ll just cook it.
A lot of the big tomato plants I had at the Woodland Avenue garden that had green tomatoes on them got eaten by deer. I ran them off as they were grazing on the plants. The plants had been about shoulder high. Now they come up to my waist. I still have about an equal number of tomatoes here in the Paul Drive garden, though. We haven’t had any trouble with deer here (on Paul Drive) this year. Just groundhogs and squirrels, which don’t do nearly so much damage. We had one ripe tomato a couple days ago (Ammy picked it and ate it), but we have lots of little green ones. Just a matter of time…and water.
