The Color is Coming Back to My Garden

The warm weather is early this year and it's a delight to see the bursts of color in my garden.  My peony is just budding and I believe it will be flowering in a week. I can't wait. I also planted some cosmos last weekend as I like the gorgeous pink and lilacs of the flowers.

We've planted our vegetable garden too as well as some planters and hanging baskets.

How's your garden coming along? Trying anything new this year? Any gardening advice?

 

A Tasty Crop of Heirloom Tomatoes

This year we decided to try planting some heirloom tomatoes. I usually plant the basic beefsteak and cherry tomatoes so a change was welcome. We ended up with some really tasty large red tomatoes and also hundreds (yes, I'm not exaggerating!) of little year pear shaped tomatoes. They are sweet and far less acidic that regular tomatoes. If only I could get the boys to enjoy tomatoes...one day maybe.

Here's an easy appetizer I made with the yellow tomatoes.

* Roll out some puff pastry and cut it into 2" by 2" squares, spread some pesto or tapenade on each piece of pastry, and top it with a cut tomato and a splash of olive oil. 

* Then pop them in the oven on a baking tray at about 450 degrees for about 15 minutes.

They are delicious!