The temptations of ripe tomatoes

Whatever you may think of what I write, Kindly do not attempt to fling tomatoes.

Fruits of Summer

Warm, sunny days mean ripening fruits. Today I picked my first BIG tomato, a Ramapo tomato that I bought at Mahoney’s this year. Supposedly it’s the original “New Jersey” tomato. It’s an heirloom in the sense that it’s an old variety, but not an heirloom in the sense of seeds gardeners can save. Since it’s […]

Tomato, baby tomato!

Every year, there’s the long anticipation from the first tomato flower to the first fruit to set. This is almost two weeks later than the first fruit set from last year. I think it’s because we’ve had a lot of cool nights. Tomatoes won’t set fruit if it goes below the mid-50s Fahrenheit overnight. Don’t […]

Smallest tomato blossom ever

It’s not much, but it’s nicer than the demised peonies. And it means tomatoes are coming.

No snow!

I totally freaked out over nothing last night. The snow was wet, this spot is sheltered, and the rain washed away the layer of white that tried to stick on the ground. Perhaps this is a messy photo, but live tomato plants are messy. And smug.

Tomatoes are hanging

At the market today, you could see that lots of tomatoes got picked very fast last night. Now they’re on sale as “Native field ripened tomatoes 1.50 lb”. Not bad! My own tomato plant is still in the game. The worst that the chill did was kill off the leaves that weren’t looking so hot. […]

Is this the last harvest?

It’s going to be cold out tonight, as in near freezing. Poor tomatoes! This just might be the last vine-ripe batch I get to pick this year.

Tomato Onslaught

After hearing so much about late blight in tomatoes and potatoes, I feel like I got away with something. I mean I planted a tomato plant in the same spot three years in a row. It’s even been the same variety the last two years, Early Girl. In order to thoroughly tempt fate, I also […]

Impatience

Is it ripe yet? Is it ripe yet? Is it ripe yet?

Tomato!

My first tomato of the year! My, that ripened quickly. Just a few days ago it was barely blushing. Here it is fresh-picked for its trophy photo. There it goes, off to the kitchen. Bye-bye, tomato. Yum.