However, if you do slice it into beautiful deep red disks and sprinkle a little freshly picked and chopped basil on it, well, that is wonderful, too. There is too much food coming from the garden and the frost is going to come too soon. If we could eat like this year round, it would probably not be so wonderful. We would become jaded. Soon the menu will change dramatically as we shift from the crops that will no longer be available after frost to those that get better after frost.
Carrots are the most notable.
They really do get sweeter after they have been through a hard frost. Winter squash, onions, beets, cabbage, potatoes, and kale are crops that are looking good for the fall and winter table. I failed once again to plant lettuce at the proper time to be able to eat salads through November. I don't manage my planning well enough to have it every year. Mort is a husband and father.