Today's heist and a breakfast of champions. . .

In spite of cool night temperatures, harvest continues. The raspberries have been especially fruitful, and the beans continue daily. The last eggplant was harvested today, and I removed the eggplant plants. There is no hope of further reproduction from them, and they were crowding the tomatoes and the indigo. 

I don't intend to do any future dying with the indigo, but the bees absolutely love the flowers, so they're worth keeping around until nature takes them out.

 

And of course, some of the apples became a pie yesterday. I interrupted my weekly ritual of bran cereal for breakfast to have a slice of apple pie with sharp cheddar melted on it. Seemed a fair trade. 

I feel like we always eat well, but this time of year it goes beyond that. It's food for the body and the soul. And there is no more pleasant task than making an apple pie. 

Because I didn't know what Indigo looked like prior to this year, I'm including an  image of it in bloom. According the internet sources, the dye is less concentrated once the plant starts flowering, which makes sense when you consider what an energy-expensive process reproduction is. But these flowers make an excellent counterpoint to larger blooms like hydrangeas in arrangements.  

The plants are extremely vigorous in full sun, and the stems have a bamboo-ish look. I'm hoping I haven't unleashed a monster in my garden.