Just a quick post to show you the variety of tomatoes I’m growing this year.
I wanted to grow a variety of tomatoes that would allow me to that I could can, eat in salads, slice for sandwiches and inspire conversation. With that in mind the above photo shows what’s happening.
Clockwise from upper right they are:
Roma – my go-to sauce and canning tomato
Orange Oxheart (heirloom) – large sweet slicing tomato – very sweet – low acid
Sungold Cherry – small super sweet snacking and salad tomato
German Queen (heirloom) – massive slicer – I had one that was one ounce shy of 2 pounds!
Indigo Rose – interesting hybrid, starts out black turns reddish when ripe -flavor not very remarkable.
The basil and onions are also courtesy of the garden. Now I better grab a fork before it all gets devoured!
Until next time, Eat Well & Keep Digging
August 10, 2013
Your tomatoes look great. I wish mine did 🙁 I have only had successful onions once and those were ones I bought from the store that were already half grown.
August 17, 2013
I’ve never started onions from seed Becky, rather little starts, about the size of a marble.
August 10, 2013
Beautiful, David. Such a great selection and varied collection.That’s my kind of Summer salad. Yum!
August 17, 2013
It was delicious John! Thanks for coming by!
August 11, 2013
Awesome!! Our tomatoes just really started producing this week, so we are looking forward to the next 4 weeks or so!!
August 17, 2013
What do you have planted?
August 16, 2013
hey david, the toms look de-lish! i’m growing a chocolate stripe variety that’s great for slicing and full of sweet tomato flavour. it’s well worth seeking out!
August 17, 2013
Is Chocolate Stripe the name?
August 28, 2013
I have become a big fan of heirloom tomatoes. One variety, Pruden’s Purple, is in the 1 pound range. It is really impressive to watch grow. It looks very similar to yours when it is cut open. I also grew several heirloom sauce varities this year. I really have enjoyed using them in my sauces. I am neck deep in canning now.
August 29, 2013
What sauce varietie are you growing Spencer?
March 21, 2014
I’m commenting because I couldn’t find your email and would like to speak to you about Granny. Some of the folks that read her blog are getting together to do something for her. If you want to join email me at daphne@alum.mit.edu, I could put you on the email list to discuss it. I’ll send out a mass email about it on Monday to the emails that I have. Hopefully she doesn’t read comments on old posts.