Grow your own food

We made another salad for dinner tonight. The quantity of grown vs purchased ingredients is changing. Getting better. Tonight's salad consisted of:

ITEMS IN THE SALAD THAT WE GREW:
1-radicchio
2-winter purslane
3-black-seeded simpson lettuce
4-red salad bowl lettuce
5-tomato (yes!)
6-cucumber (yes! yes!)
7-basil
8-nasturtium flowers & leaves

ITEMS IN THE SALAD WE BOUGHT FROM SOMEWHERE
1-grated cheese
2-croutons
3-raisins
4-thin-sliced leftover brisket
5-salad dressing

So, out of 13 ingredients, we grew eight of them. Hey, not bad. In the future, I could see us growing or producing - or having friends produce - everything but the brisket.

The first few Early Girl tomatoes to ripen were stricken with blossom end-rot, dammit.

Today, we clipped two more: one appeared perfect and the other had what looked to be the beginnings of more rot. Upon cutting them, the perfect-looking one in fact had some odd white wormy-looking things in it, and the one that had a blemish turned out to be, after trimming the blemished area, probably the tastiest tomato we've ever had.

Oh. My. Figure of Speech.

There must be another 30 tomatoes on our three Early Girl plants, and none of them show signs of the rot. Yes! And the green tomatoes growing on the two Big Boy plants look clean so far.