I had such high hopes for this year’s Eat Local Challenge, namely because my garden is larger than last year. Right now at the height of the growing season, I should have no shortage of tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, green beans, cucumbers, lettuce, chard and other produce. But for the past few weeks a pesky deer [...]
It’s been a strange year for tomatoes, a lament I’m hearing from gardeners around the state. Frustratingly slow to ripen, the slicing tomatoes in my garden have been puny and just plain don’t taste right. Even the cherry tomatoes have lacked their customary sweetness. After it looked like blossom-end rot would plague the whole [...]
