First tomato of the season
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| Sat, 08-02-2008 - 10:40pm |
I grew an heirloom variety from WalMart, German Girl, this year. It is a big (the size of a grapefruit) slicing type, pale pink skin and flesh, not a lot of juice or seeds. Umm - now that's the kind of tomato I remember my DGrM growing. It was so flavorful, skin so thin you could cut it with your fork. DH is not a big tomato fan - he tolerates a few pieces on his salad. I sliced this one, drizzled with olive oil, s&p, and chopped fresh basil. He raved about how good it tasted. I counted 30 more fruit ready to ripen this week. Gonna be a lot of BLT sandwiches eaten around here. Not a problem, because that is a supper standby when I've been out running around in the heat and am too pooped to cook, with 3 bean salad or slaw on the side. We have another heirloom, Brandywine, which I grew from seed. It has just begun to set fruit, so we will have it for a later crop. For a city raised gal, this is so exciting. Took me this many years to get a raised bed and grow something really good. The runner green beans are flowering and sweet pepper plants are heavy with fruit. Only really new plants are a single bush cucumber and a single seedless watermelon. Cukes and melons grown in our area are often killed by a virus transmitted by beetles. I'm hoping because mine went in so late, that they may have been spared. I'm like a mother hen, running out every few hours to see if the Japanese Beetles have arrived yet. I have killed a few, but new ones keep showing up.
Jacquie
| Sun, 08-03-2008 - 11:30am |
