Veggie Soup

Something has been getting into my tomatoes!  It doesn't look like worms and I never see squirrels or chipmunks back here, so I think it's a bird pecking into the ripe tomatoes.  That bird has already ruined at least half a dozen perfectly good tomatoes!

My two pepper plants are growing crazy slow, but the green peppers and banana peppers that have been growing one or two at a time have been getting huge!  I finally picked my first green pepper today and it's way more impressive than the little ones I was growing last summer.

I'm going to slice it up with some of my tomatoes and cook a homemade pizza.  BEST way to eat homegrown green peppers!  We cooked about a dozen little roma tomatoes today in a vegetable soup with a zucchini, a squash, a sweet onion, a bunch of little creamer potatoes, and carrots in beef broth.  We boiled the tomatoes for 30 seconds, then threw them in some icy water, and the peels came right off!  We had never done that before and it was really cool.  Todd even started the soup with a roux!  (Paisley pronounces it aahhhrrooooooo!!)

So the tomatoes are growing great and the plant is as tall as I am!  Well, technically it's only as tall as me when I hold the tallest branch up, but it's still impressive.