Tomatoes

[seedcorn]

I'm wide open(except for the blacks). I just can't get the "I might be missing something" out of my mind on tomatoes. LOVE to grow, eat, can, eat tomatoes. Plus, I've found people that appreciate them as gifts.

Nothing better than second (wife always steals my first one!) and have a tomato sandwiche. & thanks to some of you, on fresh homemade bread......if I get real ambitious on fresh mayonnaise made from my farm eggs.

 

[seedcorn]

Nice looking little gems, aren't they? Sandhill has a green when ripe variety that I plan on trying but haven't yet.

Keep us-me-in loop.

 

[seedcorn]

I hear you on the oxheart kick I've been acquiring seeds from them too.

What is the attraction? Unique shape but looks like a pithy tomato.

 

[Jared77]

Part of it's the unique shape the other part is some of them appear quite meaty. Low seeds, less snot, thick walls. They are not overly popular so they have peaked my curiousity

 

[so lucky]

I'm wide open(except for the blacks). I just can't get the "I might be missing something" out of my mind on tomatoes. LOVE to grow, eat, can, eat tomatoes. Plus, I've found people that appreciate them as gifts.

Nothing better than second (wife always steals my first one!) and have a tomato sandwiche. & thanks to some of you, on fresh homemade bread......if I get real ambitious on fresh mayonnaise made from my farm eggs.

seedcorn, I have read that the black tomatoes are the most nutritious. Black Krim, in particular, if I remember correctly. I don't really care for the flavor as much as the red ones, but plan to plant a couple this year anyway.

 

[digitS']

Cherry tomatoes? I was just talking about this on AMKuska's favorites topic. Sungold & SunSugar are like candy! Red Super Sweet 100's are wonderful. Sweet Chelsea has a nice snacking size.

Sungold & SunSugar, are the earliest tomatoes in my garden. Or at least, right there with Bloody Butcher.

BB is said to have the flavor of a larger, later tomato. I agree. Oh, and some folks may not consider BB, or some of these other small tomatoes, a cherry. Kimberley and Porter are in this group too. No but saladette is kind of a silly name. Being able to shove the whole tomato in my mouth at once has to count for something.

Steve

 

[seedcorn]

Part of it's the unique shape the other part is some of them appear quite meaty. Low seeds, less snot, thick walls. They are not overly popular so they have peaked my curiousity

Curious what you think this fall.

 

[seedcorn]

My wife always wants cherries. Awful to say but consider it a waste of good space. Use to come up wild in my sweet corn patch. Not sure why they quit? Maybe upon weeding, I pulled them all out. They weren't true cherries but inbreds from tomatoes I throw to chickens. Once corn tall enough they can't bother, I let them roam the patch setting bugs. Throw scraps to them there so what they don't eat, composts (rots).

 

[digitS']

By "wide open" you meant that you'd like one you'd need to open the door wide for?

We have to be patient with Seedcorn, folks. It wasn't long ago that he was insisting that a tomato has to be red and round .

Well, for a barndoor red, I am trying Neves Azorean this year.

In the garden, I may have finally squeezed out one of DW's favorites: Yellow Minsk. HUGE! Came with a huge plant too. Picking 2 or 3 at the end of a summer of growing allowed me to condemn it to a romantic history that time has passed by.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

Seed, why don't you plant a good cherry variety (like one of those Steve mentioned) in a big pretty pot and put it on the patio?
I'm thinking it would make you pretty popular with your wife.

And who couldn't use more popularity?