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I pick them over everyday and cut up and freeze the good parts of any showing sign of blight, and eat the rest fresh. There are at least a hundred tomatoes between the two locations, and I picked more today, along with a few peppers, an eggplant, and several squash:
That's a barrel of late bib lettuce in the background.
The blighted tomatoes are a sad sight, though I have noticed most other gardens in my neighborhood were blighted weeks ago-- I hope that means my early measures to reduce spread (picking off lower leaves and mulching with grass cuttings) helped slow the arrival and spread in my garden.
Meanwhile, the older, root end of the trombone squash is dying off:
But the leading edge, 20 feet ahead, is lush and still going:
And some plants are just peaking, including the amaranth (which I grow mostly for it's beauty-- the leaves are only tasty when young, and I'm not interested in all the work and little return from harvesting the grain). I love how the flowers turn upwards towards the sun when the stalk falls over under it's own weight.
And the sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes) are just beginning to form flowers-- they will bloom in a couple of weeks, about the same time as my late chrysanthemums. Here they are reaching for the clouds (12 feet hight!) in the late evening light of my mid September garden:
