tomato and cucumber salad
My basic tomato, cucumber and lettuce salad. I usually cut up garlic on top and sprinkle on some Parmesan cheese.
ripening tomatoes
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My tomatoes are gradually ripening. Its cool outside, so I pick them when they first turn pinkish. I think they ripen quicker if I bring them in the house where its a bit warmer. Tomatoes need dark to ripen and I’ve read its best to put them in a paper bag in the cupboard to ripen. But who wants to hide their tomatoes? I’m one of those who likes to see them lined up on the window sill.
taller and taller
I’ve never had my tomatoes vines grow this tall. I suppose they are 7-8 feet and still growing. We have another month of growing season. It must have been that extra fertilizer. The vines have lots of fruits. Big clusters of fat happy tomatoes. I think I’ll pick up some mozzarella cheese. Nothing like fresh tomatoes with cheese, basil leaves and garlic. A little bread, a little wine … yummm. The September supper.
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Such a pretty fruit. Soon I’m going to have buckets full of tomatoes, I just know it! (I’m hoping so anyway.) But not quite yet. I’m getting about one ripe one every other day. Still only the Early Girls.
tall tomato vines
The tomato plants are 6 feet tall already this year! Lots of green tomatoes on the vines, just not alot ripening yet. A few ripe ones here and there. I’ve picked about 3 or 4 so far, plus a number of cherries. I have mostly Early Girl and Supersonic, plus a couple red and yellow Brandywine. Solanum lycopersicum
Early Girl tomato
This tomato was delicious! I put the dates of the pictures in the lower right corner. (Click on the picture to enlarge it.) The flower bloomed on June 22. About 40 days from flower to ripe tomato. Solanum lycopersicum
all-in-a-row: cherry tomatoes
I’ll pick my first ripe tomatoes tonight. The one in the picture plus a couple of Early Girls. These are Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes.
tomatoes, eggplants and garden chores
Today I caught up on alot of gardening work: Finally planted those colorful annuals I bought on Tuesday, trimmed off alot of seed pods and dead growth from the spring flowering plants, especially the lady’s mantle. I fertilized all the vegetables well with Garden-Tone (4-6-6), adding super phosphate (0-20-0) to the fruiting and flowering plants. A special tomato formula for the tomatoes (4-7-10), plus I added extra phosphate hoping to encourage extra blooming and fruiting. The roses got a special formula too (Rose-tone, 6-6-4). Also I put Sevin on the…
green tomato
On June 20 (20 days ago), I had my first tomato flower. Five days later I was able to photograph a tiny a baby tomato. Here it is now – growing up into a big guy (a Supersonic). Our weather has been good, so it might ripen right on schedule: July 20th (10 more days). (My brother is going to come visit once the tomatoes start ripening, so he can make a note ….)
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy
weeks and counting until my last spring frost
My garden this week
Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Egyptian walking onions!
