So I've been really busy since school started back....haven't had a chance to do a lot of the things outside I usually do
Anyway, I posted up on here a few days ago that we'd had the last homegrown tomato
I forgot I stuck a bunch of suckers into the big grow bags I used for some lettuce that didn't do well beside the garage
At the time, I just didn't dump the dirt and pull those bags out of there and put them anywhere else
Zinnias, cosmos, and four o'clocks took over and grew tall in front of them and I forgot about those tomatoes
I never watered and never fertilized and seriously totally forgot about them (they were hidden)....no stakes or cages....they just grew up and spread over the ground back there
So today I go out there to pull the heads off some of those flowers to have some seeds to scatter around next year and to get rid of the stems for winter....I look over and couldn't believe it
I wind up with this (3.5 gal, not 5, but still good for October around here):
And for supper, fried green tomatoes:
Earlier in this thread, some of y'all were talking about cooking those. I think my wife's are the best. I asked her about her batter, and she does an egg wash and puts about 3 parts corn meal (yellow) to one part flour (but doesn't measure anything). I like these because you can just pick em up and eat em. Great thick breading, imo. That's a pretty dam good late October surprise right there! I want another one tomorrow against the elephants. Shock the world time.