I know this is a daft post to write but it's my blog so there!
I've mentioned the tomatoes that we have grown this year. How 3 plants have yielded over 250 tomatoes.
And I consider that utterly miraculous. Three plants, which I must add, I did not do the correct thing to- I did not pinch out most of the side shoots that you are supposed to. I went away for weeks on end in that scorching weather and they weren't watered apart from my Mum's weekly water.
The flavour of these beauties is just like no other tomato I have bought in recent years.
Also, they have been absolutely crammed full of juice and seeds. When I made a pasta with vegetables, the tomatoes provided so much moisture and liquid that I just wouldn't get from shop-bought tomatoes. When I chop them, I see it spilling out. They have provided so many dinners. They last for ages too.
Perhaps the exceedingly sunny and dry weather is the reason their flavour and prolific yield was so perfect? Perhaps I won't experience this again. But, I am grateful, truly grateful that I have had them this year.
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Tomatoes so perfect in shape
Oh round gems of ruby lustre
Many of you have graced our garden
Amazing flavour.
Tempting in every meal.
Oh please return next year!
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Yay to you... Nothing like home grown vine ripen organic tomatoes. I love your Ode to the humble home grown tomato. Your plant looks so very healthy and I was wondering if it still was producing tomatoes this late in the season? Mine are no longer producing of course since winter has found us but I still had a few Roma tomatoes on my counter from the garden. They keep a long time.
ReplyDeleteHugs, Julia
Good luck again next year. It's so exciting to think that we get to do it all over next year.
I love this, Kezzie - it makes me smile. That's just awesome - I wish I had a green thumb!
ReplyDeleteAwesome Ode! I cannot grow cress on a flannel
ReplyDeleteI don't remember what variety of tomato you chose to grow - I'd like to know! Tomatoes are truly amazing, and a fresh-picked, homegrown tomato has a flavor you simply can't taste anywhere else. It spoils you for any other tomato!
ReplyDeleteThe habit of plants is stunning, miraculous. You plant one tiny tomato seed, and from it comes a massive, leggy plant with a hundred tomatoes on it, and each of those has another handful of seeds -- 25 maybe? What a multiplication of life! I also gave up snapping off the sucker branches on my tomatoes. The plants become lush, and even though I'm told the sucker branches don't bear fruit, they DO provide much nourishment to the plant with their photosynthesis, so they are valuable. Thanks for this fun post!
I com pletely neglected mine, too - I think tomatoes have more resilience than we give them credit for! x
ReplyDeleteWow, 250 tomatoes from just 3 plants is quite amazing. We haven't had tomato plants in years, but next year I'm promising myself to follow your example. How grown tomatoes taste so much better than what you can buy in any shop! xxx
ReplyDeleteyou really do have green fingers....that's quite a tomato harvest!
ReplyDeleteWow you certainly did get a lot of tomatoes!!! I remember one time when I was little, my mom's tomato plants went crazy and we were practically drowning in tomatoes! I hope your wonderful tomato luck continues :)
ReplyDeleteHere's to a bumper crop next year. Those plants obviously loved being in your garden.
ReplyDeleteLisa x