When life gives you lemons, dismantle your garden early and make green tomato pie.

 So, yes, we had a little reminder about the perils of not having a prefrontal cortex. Some of the neighbor kids acted a bit thoughtlessly towards me and mine. This event had me consider the whole free garden idea- really, nobody was interested in it this year and it was producing a lot of cherry tomatoes that were either going to waste or just going into the growing pile of tomatoes that we need to use ourselves. I decided to clean up the garden and we'll be moving the dirt to a bed in the back and doing a different thing (probably clover) in the space where hope once stood. (sooooo dramatic- sorry)

I am going to be heading back to work next week and so getting the bed cleared out is a perfectly acceptable job to do now before I get busy, and it suddenly gets frosty. Already long story short, I removed all the green cherry tomatoes as I yanked the remaining plants. I've made green tomato pie and crisp from larger tomatoes and it is a very fine thing, indeed, to do. I was hopeful on using the small tomatoes. 

I had enough for one full pie and a "rustic" grab-it bowl single top crust pie. I was negligent on photographing the process and only documented the aftermath of some pieces enjoyed. I will say, it works with the small tomatoes but in the future, I would chop them a bit more. I halved them. Sometimes it gave the feel of eating grapes. I am a picky texture person so this is my only complaint and probably most people would not experience my issue. I use instant tapioca pearls to thicken the pie and it works quite well. 

Anyway, the teeny-weeny-free-zucchini garden was a fun idea, or so I thought. Just didn't end up being what this neighborhood wanted. Onward, and upward! That's what I always say.