Hello everyone! It's been way too long since we got a post up here. Please believe me when I say we've been quite busy around here. Children, market commitments, garden work. Oh, and did I mention that being 8 months pregnant in the summer heat wears you out?! Anyways....We have heirloom tomatoes now!!! I am so excited. Every year we wait and wait for the middle of summer to arrive here at our house because that means we don't have to buy the cardboard-like ones from the store anymore!! Here is a large basin of them I brought in a couple days ago. These were the first of the season! And since we do only grow heirloom there are many colors, sizes, and shapes.
Here is what may be my all-time favorite tomato...the Black Pineapple or Ananas Noir. It may not be the prettiest of tomatoes, but the flavor and texture are unbelievable. When you slice into it it has this pretty assortment of green, red, and almost purple stripes. This is the fourth year I've grown this tomato and I intend to for now on.
This is a Green Pineapple. It is in fact green when ripe. It does gain a slightly yellow tinge once it's ready to come off the vine. It's a nice little trick to know. It's almost neon green on the inside and so sweet with a nice amount of tang.....a real keeper.
The tomato on the right is a Costoluto Genovese and the tomato on the left is a Japanese Black Trifele. The JBT is slightly pear shaped and more of a purple/brownish color. Like so many of the purple family tomatoes is has a wonderful deep, smoky, wine like taste almost. So very good.
These are just few of the many tomatoes we'll have this year. We even have white tomatoes...yes white!! Come see us at the Grandview Farmers Market over the next weeks for some of these beauties. Take care everyone!
0 comments:
Post a Comment