Tomato Trials

Well, the other night I got a call from our neighbor - the traps they had put out to deal with the mice problem they were having in their tomatoes, similar to the problem we experienced, had caught a mouse.

Said mouse was 4 inches in body length and 5 inches in tail.

Yeah, I don't think it was a mouse either, but I am more than happy to humor her.

So last night after supper we were out once again harvesting all the not green tomatoes to bring them in the house to ripen on the counter. We did not discover additional damage, thankfully!

Also, no more visitors like this guy either!

What we cannot eat we are sharing and freezing to make crushed tomato sauce.

And we will be having Pasta Fasta for supper tonight - recipe to follow...

Although we did harvest green and yellow beans, which are very late because the snails kept eating them. Unfortunately we discovered that something was burrowing in and eating the beans inside. So we are going to have a rather lackluster bean crop this year.

Oh well.

This is really our first year of all out gardening in Southern California, my first ever, so we are just chalking things up to learning experiences and noting what we will do differently next year.

We will again plant tomatoes, beans, peppers, cucumbers and carrots, but no lettuce as it just attracts slugs and snails and were not able to eat it any ways, and hopefully next year our fruit trees will be established and give us fruit! (This year we got lots of blueberries, and it looks like we will get some mandarins, but that is about it).

How are your gardens going?