Only twenty bucks,
fall planting garlic for sale.
Thank you but no thanks.
Don’t get me wrong; I love it,
olive-oiled jarred, minced for two.
Tomato packet
said purple, plenty, and dwarf;
none of them apply.
Instead, dark red, few, and big
now supplement bought bushels.
What was I thinking
by not planting zucchini
this perfect growing season?
I also skipped sunflowers;
chipmunks and birds mystified.
Kigo: fall planting garlic, tomatoes, zucchini
image one link, my pic of this year’s purple reign tomato, zucchini pic from last year
Colleen Chesebro is the host of TankaTuesday. Colleen would like us to write syllabic poetry using seasonal kigo for this time of year. It’s fading heat, but we are in the middle of another heat wave.
Tao Talk 
LOL! What were you thinking? No sunflowers! The tomato does have a purple tinge to it. We planted some small tomatoes and they’ve been great! I got a kick out of your tanka!
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Thanks, Colleen, I wanted to have fun with it and keep a theme going :) Now to muster the energy to get the canning going. These (few picked) termaters are at the height of ripeness. Glad to hear yours have been great.
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I haven’t canned in years. I don’t have a gas stove anymore and it just isn’t the same on electric. LOL! Have fun, Lisa.
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Thanks <3
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Wow, I love your fall planting, Lisa. I planted tomatoes and zucchini. The zucchini plant is huge. Your tanka series is great.
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Miriam, many thanks. Glad you have tomatoes and zucchini and they are doing well.
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Oh do I love garlic. Mmmmm
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There is never a need to plant zucchini. There is always too much in August.
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If you grow it every year. I used mine up or gave it away last year, so sol this year.
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For me, too many years of turning people away at the store who wanted to sell me their excess zucchini (sometimes as big as baseball bats), or give it away, when I had to explain that we bought all we needed, so to give theirs away would mean giving away what we’d bought before it rotted. It seems there is always someone trying to give away zucchini…but if you want to eat blossoms, or pick squash while very young and tender, you do have to grow it yourself.
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Damn tomatoes!
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lol!
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Initially, I read this comment as “damn the torpedoes,” i.e., the title of the 1979 album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. There you can see where my mind is! :-)
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I see the musical notes tap dancing on your brain cells, Christian :)
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:-)
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Great album. It’s okay, sometimes when I read, my brain mixes up the letters at first glance. I’m not dyslexic. I think my brain just travels like a torpedo.😆
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Thanks for putting up with my silliness and your great sense of humor!😀
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:)
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Suddenly, I fancy a salad. 😋
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I love garlic, tomatoes and zucchini. I think they actually also go pretty well together! :-)
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Yes they do. Today I sauteed those 3 together, put them on warm naan bread, and sauced them up with tzatziki (sp?) It was delicious!
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That sounds delicious to me, Lisa! :-)
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Oh it was! It’s supposed to have a little cilantro on it also but I forgot it.
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Sounds like you’re a culinary connoisseur!😀
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I’m no Chef Ramsay, but I can cook :)
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😀
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That’s a beautiful tomato. Tis the season.
Put the sunflowers on the list right now! (K)
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I used 2 of the tomatoes in a stir fry with zucchini yesterday. These are meaty and delicious tomatoes. In the seed saving class I took recently she said don’t grow more than one variety at a time. I want the tomatoes for canning and so probably won’t buy them again, but for meatiness and taste they are excellent. I promise to grow sunflowers next year :)
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I imagine each variety has its strengths.
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That sucks about the tomatoes! They must have got the seeds mixed up.
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Everything I read (from multiple sources) said dwarf tomatoes. Somebody got mixed up. They put an enormous amount of energy into their vines/stalks. When I put a cage around one, one stem broke off. I stuck it in dirt, and now it has blossoms on it! Vigorous growth habit. Very heavy fruit topples the cages. I think I’m going to rename these Seymour (But Less) Tomatoes.
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Well I guess it is resilient! Good call with Seymour…I think of Bill Murray when I hear that name.
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Lovely, realistic poetry, Lisa. That is a strange looking tomato!
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Thanks so much, Balroop. I cut up and cooked the first one yesterday. Delicious!
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Loved your poems Li.
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Thanks again, my friend. <3
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💖💗💗💖
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me too 💜💜💜
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<3
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I’m thinking of add fall plantings, and you’re inspiring me, Lisa. 🌞
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Awesome, Gwen :)
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i love these verses your humour shines through 💜💜
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Willow, thanks, that makes me smile :)
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Enjoyed your poems and pictures, Li. Lovely. :)
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Thanks much, Kitty :)
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You are welcome, Li. :)
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Hi Lisa, Lovely poem. It got me hungry. I haven’t ever seen brown garlics before and haven’t tried growing them. This makes me want to. Is it easy to grow them? My tomoto plant withered away when I was travelling and I haven’t kept one since. The only thing that grows in my garden with little or no care are the chillies.
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Thanks, Smitha. The top pic of the garlic isn’t mine and I don’t grow it (yet!) just buy garlic already pre-minced in olive oil. Sorry to hear about your tomato plant. The purple reign take a long time to ripen, not as many, but the ones I’ve picked are big and robust. Happy you are having success with the chillies :)
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Ah… we bought bottles of pickled garlic in June from Manali ( in the Himalayan region), and they’re so good🙂.
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I bet they would be!
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