Fruit & Veg to Come.

Thank you Molly, Jane, joolz ,Dianne,Thimbleanna, Suzy, Linda and  Annie ( RR ), for your comments . They are much appreciated.
 I can't yet add to that subject so I will talk about something else.

 My eye and my camera tell me there should be things to eat in the future. This is # 2 cauliflower of 6. We have eaten # 1 2 weeks ago. It is good that they are staggering their development.
 Also ripe for the eating are these 6 wee tom Thumb lettuce.

 Down in the orchard the kiwifruit are getting their leaves and flower buds slowly.

 This is a female vine.

 The males are a bit ahead and look like this.

 In the home orchard there is blossom on the nashi.

 ( can you see the bee doing his thing? )

There are some plums set if you look very closely.

 The apple tree is just starting.

 With all the fruit this is the first step of many before the eating part. But it is a promising beginning.

 One last thing to show. I bought this ( here half peeled so you could see it both ways ) is a purple fleshed  kumara.

Produce.

Every 2 or 3 days R is picking this many yummy tomatoes.They then have to be either frozen whole ; skinned  and frozen ; cooked as pulp; made into pasta sauce ; tomato paste or sauce. Some are eaten raw of course. We are not sure why the crop is SO amazing this year? Is it the enclosed white shade cloth fence around the new vege patch creating more light as well as protection ? Or the bumble bees? Or  better care? ( what ever the answer this has to be the best crop we have ever had.)

 This morning these were also picked from the same area.

 Aubergine ( egg plant ) is a favourite with R, for me an acquired taste. Somehow they always look better than they taste. For me best cut  into  thin slices and fried both sides. Good also for vegetarian lasagna.

This  photo taken through the mesh fence of the tomatoes.( that's what the white spots are )

 Does anyone have any really tasty tomato recipes?