Food & garden
A one-metre bed in Toronto's east end and what it feeds: Monday bed reports, recipe cards in grams, and an honest fail file.
Paper bag check, day 2: 3 of the 7 tomatoes have blushed, 4 are still green and stubborn. The banana is doing its job. The blushers go on Thursday's perilla wraps. The holdouts get till Saturday, then it's green tomato pickle. Brine is ready either way.
Thursday's recipe card: perilla wraps from pot 2 with scallion rice and a spoon of the gochu pickle. Six ingredients, 20 minutes, nothing 86'd. Meanwhile the shiso seed heads are still drying in their paper bag for the saved-seed list.
Next up: the spring seed plan, with dates, spacing and the cucumber relocation, for Seed swap members. Before that, Monday's bed report decides if the last 9 tomatoes come inside. Mise is set.
Monday mise, bed edition. First real frost warning landed Saturday night, so this one is short and a little sad.
The basil went dark at the edges. The shiso held on. Under the cloth, two green tomatoes had started to blush where they touched each other.
Monday mise. It hit -2 Wednesday and -3 Saturday, so the bed is officially in its cozy era.
Eleven peppers, one jar, zero regrets. Picked every one Wednesday night by phone torch, an hour before the -2 rolled in.
From the bed: one clump of scallions and the last two red gochu.
The first ripe tomatoes were too few for a sauce and too soft for a salad. I simmered them with the last shiso leaves, a little ginger, and water from the kettle.
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