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August 15, 2009 in garden porn • 6 comments
first tomato of the season
Hell yeah. Time to inaugurate the “tomato” tag.
I’d go on about heirlooms and brandywines and tell cute little stories involving one of my grandmas, or, if it were of special import requiring massive genetic support, both grandmas.
But I have to get to the Blueberry Festival in 45 minutes, and to the gym 26 minutes after that (sorry, couldn’t resist).
This little fella is from one of my rogue tomatoes, which you may have caught a glimpse of in the ruthlessly onanist garden porn gallery. He’s shaped like a brandywine, stretch marks and veins and all, but he’s small, about 4 inches across. A cross between a brandywine and a cherry, maybe? Do they even like each other? I don’t know. He’s really red, though, so maybe he’s just one of those icky red brandywines we planted last year.
did someone say icky?
Look at that flesh. It’s not got the look of awesome tomato flesh. It’s got a grainy look. This prejudiced me against it.
Then I tried it. Yeah, it wasn’t awesome. Not a lot of flavor, and really acidic.
Threw it into the fridge to put in salad or cook with. Maybe the next one will be good. 
If you can’t grow ‘em well, no one can!
I don’t think I can! All of my non-rogues are green! It’s awful. Everything else is ready. Peppers, cukes, anything you’d want to combine with tomatoes is begging to be picked.
But nooooo, not the tomatoes.
And, get yourself an avatar, girl.
awwww…but it’s sooooo cute! and older typey matoes were sometimes grainy and acidic The main reason so many recipes called for sugar.HMMMMM!
Ah!! I love first tomatoes. Mine are finally ripening
Isn’t this an awful year for tomato-ripening? All the cool weather really set things back. I’m glad I can blame the weather instead of my late seedlings hehe.