I've been harvesting my tomatoes since late July. Got a late start, usually I have red tomatoes coming in by around July 1, even sooner, but because of the pandemic I wouldn't go to the nurseries. Before the SIP directive, I checked my favorite nursery a couple of times but they didn't have the plants yet. A neighbor's been doing my shopping and got me 10 four inch tomato plants, way later than I usually get them. 1/2 died, but 4 or so plants did OK. I didn't check today, will tomorrow. It was so dark out there. The plants have been dying anyway, a couple were almost dead before all this ash came down. One or two were doing OK, and there were 2-3 volunteers that have born tomatoes. I canned LOTS of hot sauce and gave some tomatoes to my neighbor who shops for me.
One thing that is probably gonna survive anything is my purple tree collard plant. It's from Jurassic Park, pretty monstrous. I should harvest it more. Plan to make a stew tomorrow with it, and a lot of other veges (mostly bought), and a pound of beef stew meat from a lean roast. Base of the stew is hunks of my kabocha squash. I picked the first today, it weighs over 6lb. I usually plant kabochas (around 125 seeds, I let them fight it out), but this year I didn't plant, they are all volunteers. Result of this is that with fewer plants fighting it out for sun (less than 10), water and nutrients, the squash themselves are huge. I have a few out there that must be well over 10lb.
