Monthly Archives: September 2011

Ocean View Farms (OVF) organic community garden hosts a tomato tasting for its members and guests each year. I’ve never been able to attend in the past, but this year I was on site to sample over 65
tomato entries (such hard work!).

It’s a blind taste test, and all varieties are places side by side, so this is strictly a “tasting” rather than an overall tomato competition. Prizes, however, are still given out for the tastiest
tomato.

Signs welcome visitors to the tasting
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Summer comes to an end each year, as does the warm season vegetable garden, but gardening magazines rarely, if ever, show what that looks like. Why don’t we celebrate the end as much as we do the
bountiful beginning and mid-season garden?  There is beauty in it as much as any garden when it is flourishing.  

We took a walk through the end-of-summer garden to snap a few pictures to showcase the beauty of death and decay. It sounds corny, but there really is much to rejoice about the end of a …
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