I was feeling so bummed mid-August because of unripe tomatoes and blossom end rot on the tomatoes that did get past green, a direct result of the coldest and wettest summer I have experienced since living in oregon. But in a clutch moment, this post week boasted 90-100° weather, thus ripening almost every tomato plant I have.
Well lookie what I picked yesterday!
A Cherokee Purple heirloom grown from seed (generously sent by fellow garden blogger Di from Voice in the Garden).
You can see how large it is in my hand and weighed almost 10 oz! I love the weird, kooky shape of Cherokee Purples - they never cease to amaze me with their size and shape contortions.
This next heirloom called Pineapple lived up to its reputation. This is the first one picked (many more large ones to come hopefully) and it weighed in at 1 lb. 2 oz! Wow!
It looks more like a small pumpkin in my hand rather than a tomato. I'm going to be taking this with me to places I frequent to show it off. So if you see a crazy lady in TJ Maxx showing you her large yellow tomato, don't be too freaked out :-)
Well lookie what I picked yesterday!
A Cherokee Purple heirloom grown from seed (generously sent by fellow garden blogger Di from Voice in the Garden).
You can see how large it is in my hand and weighed almost 10 oz! I love the weird, kooky shape of Cherokee Purples - they never cease to amaze me with their size and shape contortions.
This next heirloom called Pineapple lived up to its reputation. This is the first one picked (many more large ones to come hopefully) and it weighed in at 1 lb. 2 oz! Wow!
It looks more like a small pumpkin in my hand rather than a tomato. I'm going to be taking this with me to places I frequent to show it off. So if you see a crazy lady in TJ Maxx showing you her large yellow tomato, don't be too freaked out :-)
Thanks fellow Oregon gardeners for being so generous with your seeds, advice, and garden wisdom. It has made a world of difference. Check out one of my favorite Oregon blogs called An Oregon Cottage on this Garden party Tuesday
2 comments:
Sweetie-thanks for the lovely words! And Amen for the warm weather that brings ripe tomatoes. Just wish it would stay a bit longer...
Beautiful, ripe tomatoes--they are gorgeous! I'm in SW Washington State, and same thing happened for us, so now I've got some ripe tomatoes to play around with as well--very happy! BTW--you might be able to avoid blossom end rot next time if you add some calcium to the planting holes before you plant your tomatoes. I use Steve Solomon's recipe for complete organic fertilizer, which is 4 parts seed or alfalfa meal, 1 part bone meal, 1 part dolomite lime and a half-part kelp meal. Mix it all up, and I spread it on the tomato bed soil and dig it in, then in each planting hole I put an additional 3 big handfuls. This year I had no blossom end rot at all, a first for me. Hope this helps for next year!
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