Tomato Update~ I’m Finally Seeing Red…
August 11, 2009 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Recipes
My tomatoes are finally starting to turn red, and blue, and yellow, and orange. I was starting to think the only color of tomato I was going to see in my garden was green. It’s been a cool wet summer, but we finally had some warm, sunny weather the last few days.
The warm sunshine is all it took to put my garden into overdrive. I have tons of peppers, cucumbers, and yellow squash. But best of all I finally have some ripe tomatoes. I planted a whole variety of tomatoes this year for my tomato experiment, so I’ve been extra …read more
Tomato Experiment July Update
July 18, 2009 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Recipes
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




