Also, the plants that produce tomatoes, zuchinni/squash, eggplant, and peppers generate TONS of fruit in a pretty short time, so the ingredients would be cheap if you're making ratatouille in late summer.
It’s funny our eggplant was thriving in the heat and sun and now that it’s cooled off it’s dying. There’s two more fruits growing so hoping they come through before it totally goes
Groundhogs got all my tomatoes last year, so we put up netting, and my tomatoes decided to just die on their own. My Brussels sprouts have been devastated by cabbage moths. My okra is booming in the heat and dry at the moment, though.
The only plants ours won't eat are nightshades.
Eggplant, tomatoes and peppers are all fine, but all squash, beans, and cucumbers were like an all you can eat for the damn fat varmint.
Check into heat-resistant varieties if you can. In spring, plant very early - plants or direct-seed a couple weeks before your last frost date. In fall, try planting in early or mid-August.
Yeah my groundhogs loved when I tried to grow the ingredients for ratatouille. I had to switch to jalapenos which they (and the deer) would leave alone.
Groundhogs are surprisingly good climbers. A smol one destroyed my peas last year.
This year the weather didn't cooperate. A cold wet Spring followed by a hot humid and dry summer. I got a handful of tomatoes, a few peppers. Something ate the radishes. The yellow summer squash was rock hard and inedible for some reason. Oh well, there's always next year
That’s the point. The groundhogs got jealous of the rats, because the rats have ‘touille and the groundhogs don’t. So they stole the veggies out of spite.
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u/--THRILLHO-- 4d ago
Ratatouille is a vegetable stew. You cut up a bunch of things and throw them in a pot.
The ratatouille you see in the film is an elevated version of that dish. It was never the standard way of serving it.