Since Tara spends a fair bit of time sleeping, this year I started helping my mom look after her garden, I should call it a vegetable patch really. She grows things every summer and I never really paid any attention to it. want to spell it tomatoes, which I'm sure is incorrect, isn't it?), cherry tomatos (or cherry tomatoes), green peppers, chilies, banana peppers, red onions, yellow onions, eggplant (two different varieties of course) and two different varieties of melons. She's also got spinach only the one kind and I'm growing some beautiful basil for my recipes but mostly to make pesto.
Would you basil is quite expensive in the 'burbs, even though I can buy big bunches in downtown Toronto for about a buck? To make one hit of pesto in Mississauga would cost me about $12-15 whereas in Toronto it would cost only $3-4. Now that I've got my own supply of basil I'll be making pesto for less than Toronto prices. Used to be that the patch produced vegetables, my mother got pretty excited over them, I ate the veggies and that was really the end of it. However, I can see the value in this gardening business now.
This is my flowering basil:
This is one of the long eggplant:
Various peppers:
Some tomatoes and an eggplant in the background:
And finally the mysterious melon, I have yet to figure out what this will turn into. :)
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