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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 04:04 PM
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Whew. It's rough in GD today. Would anyone like to discuss garden tomatoes? Warm from the sun...
vine ripened and juicy?

How do you like yours? I like mine with a sprinkle of salt, standing over the kitchen sink.

Perhaps roughly chopped and tossed in hot pasta with pine nuts and fresh basil from my garden.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 04:05 PM
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1. Tomatoes act like WMDs on my stomach
I love them but they don't love me back
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 04:05 PM
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2. Even the yellow ones?
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 04:06 PM
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3. I'm too afraid to experiment with those
Sorry to get your pleasant thread off to such an unappetizing start
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 04:12 PM
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7. They must really do a number on your stomach!
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Callalily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 04:07 PM
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4. Oh yummy!
Tomatoes. Here are mine from last year.

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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 04:09 PM
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5. mmmmmm . . .
a nice juicy *homegrown* tomato . . .

pass one over and i'll slice it, arrange it on a plate with some nice, fresh mozarella, drizzle with olive oil, basil, and freshly ground black pepper.

oh - add a fresh rustic loaf of olive french bread and a damned good bottle of wine . . .

plus, a little Smokey Robinson in the background and a delicious book.

think i'm done now. let me live in my little dream world for a bit.

sigh.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 04:10 PM
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6. I love tomatoes! Big, firm tomatoes!
:9
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 04:13 PM
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8. I've got 'em! They are called Better Girls! My husband likes them best of all!
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 06:56 PM
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9. I don't have any red ones yet.... but they are great prepared any way.
I planted eighteen heirloom tomatoes and they are still green. Do they take longer to ripen?

I do have couple of red cherry tomatoes, but that's it. We eat those in salads.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:18 PM
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17. Not sure about that...where are you? I am in Northern Minnesota and we are ripe here. Lol.
I have some gorgeous Romas that aren't anywhere near being ready yet...so it must be a varietal thing.
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:28 PM
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23. Western PA.
We can't really plant them here until Memorial Day, but I bought big plants, not those little seedlings that come 6 to a pack. I thought I would have red tomatoes by now.... I'll bet the heirlooms take longer to mature. :shrug:
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:34 PM
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24. That's gotta be it. I'm in N Minnesota and we plant the same time you do,
Those heirlooms are going to taste delicious when they are ready!
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 07:01 PM
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10. Mmmm. I've been doing that lately.
Just go out to the garden with a salt shaker, pick one and eat it right there. Only problem is, I now have more of them than I know what to do with.

Think I'll go make a BLT.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:19 PM
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19. Yum. Do you use a fertilizer or anything? I don't have very good soil and we are in a drought...
but these beauties are coming up roses!
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:28 PM
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22. I used Miracle-Gro, watered a lot.
We're in a dry spell, too; but tomatoes love hot weather and sun. Yum.
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 07:04 PM
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11. I realize this is blasphemy...
but they make the best marinara sauce.
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 07:04 PM
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12. We're picking cherry tomatoes and other varieties are coming
I love a simple tomato sandwich -- toasted with a little miracle whip.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 07:22 PM
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13. Oh, how I miss having a garden!
I'm in the woods with no real sun and lousy soil. Plus varmints. I sure do miss those nice warm fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes.

I like 'em sliced with a bit of mayo. :9
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:15 PM
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15. I've got varmints, too! We spray with putrified egg product. Stinks to high heaven and we don't
actually spray the plants...just around the perimeter.

So far it has worked, but I did see a HUGE buck in my back yard this morning and sure enough...some of my 'maters are missing. The nerve of him.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 07:30 PM
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14. I love purple Cherokees!
or any fresh tomato. I'm stealing from my clients right now. I'm up on the mountain and we run about two weeks later than the valley floor.

Had my first BLT (and A) of the season the other day. Heaven.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:16 PM
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16. "A" meaning avocado?
A bacon, lettuce and tomato sammie with avocado is heaven on earth.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:57 PM
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26. Yes,
A for avocado!
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:19 PM
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18. My idea of a good time with tomatoes...
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:20 PM
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20. Is that from Spain? They have some kind of 'mater hurling festival there. Yikes.
Wear protective eyewear.
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:24 PM
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21. Cherry tomatoes?
Who could wait to bring them inside? I just like to eat them right off the vine, like candy. Yum!

I do the same thing with English peas and really fresh corn. My family thinks I'm weird.
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:35 PM
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25. Me too! I eat raw sweetcorn and peas. In fact, I prefer raw corn to cooked.
Summer is wonderful!
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:58 PM
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27. When I was a kid
For dessert my mother would just send me out to the garden with a salt shaker. I was a city kid, too, but we always put in a few rows of veggies along with the nasturtiums.
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smtpgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-05-07 08:59 PM
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28. If we had any rain, sadly enough my garden looks like
October.

I don't even have many jalapenos, and they grow through anything.
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