Tomatoes 2025

[flowerbug]

yesterday when picking i needed a snack so i was munching on a fresh tomato in the garden. for some reason in the past i've not normally done that much at all other than for cherry tomatoes (which we don't grow any longer). it was sunwarmed and delicious.

at the moment i've finished rinsing and dunking the tomatoes i'll be canning tonight so now they are sitting there ready for me to start peeling, coring and chunking them. i'm taking it easy today so not in any rush to get around to it.

 

[Branching Out]

A few of my Dwarf Sweet Sue tomatoes have developed a marbled tan patch on the bottom, and I'm trying to figure out if it's maybe a bacterial fruit rot or perhaps the beginning of late blight. These tomatoes are growing in a hot dry spot under cover of the roof, so blight would be an unlikely candidate-- especially because we had no rain for almost a month, beginning in mid-August. https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/Portals/0/Gardening/Gardening Help/Visual Guides/Tomato Fruit Problems.pdf

 

[ducks4you]

Finally got a small harvest of 13 medium sized tomatoes from my big garden. I added 2 more from the pot next to the house and DH and I had salad with onions, tomatoes and tunafish for dinner.