The first tomatoes have just about ripened on the vine in our vegetable garden. The vines are heavy with green ones too. The trouble with growing tomatoes is that the harvest comes all at once. We’ll soon be trying to foist them off on our friends. I have never tried fried green tomatoes but we know someone who professes to like that dish and she should be expecting a sack of the green ones this weekend.
Tricia collected a nice harvest of potatoes just before the rains started. I am not a big fan of those large potatoes they sell in stores. I don’t really like french fries or baked potatoes. However I do like the little red-skinned potatoes in a cream sauce. Those are the kind we grow and they actually have a taste.
I’ve read that in the Andes where potatoes originate they have many varieties growing wild, even some that are red and some blue. One day I’d like to find some of those and see what they taste like.
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A man in the neighborhood sets a basket full of tomatoes every morning during the growing season. You can take as many as you want. By 7:30, they are all gone.
Happy harvest!
Dang! I wish you could give me a bushel of ‘Maters! I love fresh warm tomatoes right off the vine. THey are really hard to grow up here, never gets hot enough!
Well, apparently Heinz has created a blue ketchup (perhaps to go along with the blue taters in the Andes?).
I wish I knew veggie gardeners who needed to pawn off extra tomatoes!
After giving up a number of years ago trying to grow tomatoes & other vegetables because the various wildlife in my yard ate them before they were ripe I transformed my main plot into a butterfly garden. This year I planted one tomato plant and 2 strawberry plants in containers & set them on the patio…………….so far the squirrels, rabbits & Daisey the groundhog haven’t found them………………today I noticed one small tomato on the plant - hopefully it will mature before those guests who inhabit my yard find it!! If they get to it before I do, such is life……………and I say, woe is me & next year I would try something different!
The differences in climate can be almost funny. Here you are complaining about your surfeit of tomatoes, and my daughter is trying to get ripe tomatoes before Labor Day this year, by employing wall o’ waters and other extreme means to get them off to a head start. She very proudly came in the other day and announced she already had flowers on some of her plants! But at least we can grow them, unlike some of the other folks who commented here.