I haven’t given you an heirloom tomato update for a while. Not much has been happening yet, at least not many ripe tomatoes. We’ve had unseasonably cool weather here this summer, and I think that’s slowed down my tomatoes (today the high temperature was 68`).
I did have two red ripe tomatoes about a week ago, but a tomato worm ate half of one, and I ate the other one before I thought to take a photo.
I do have quite a few blooms, and green tomatoes going on.
The Roma tomatoes are going crazy with little green tomatoes. I feel some sauce …read more

I got a few more tomato plants to add to my heirloom tomato experiment, and another basil plant to put in the container outside my back door. One of the tomato plants is a mini cherry tomato called Muhammed, and I plan to put it in the container with the basil.
Some of the other heirloom tomato varieties I added are Angora (with silvery foliage), Rainbow, Giant Syrian, Orange Ruffled, and Purple Brandy.
Check out the blue foliage on one of the Blueberry tomatoes I got on the first trip.
I can’t wait to see what all these heirloom tomatoes all look like!