Next year I am planting more San Marzanos. We have been making tray after tray of slow roasted tomatoes, and the San Marzanos are better than any other variety for this purpose. Yeah, we have roasted every variety we have, but the San Marzanos are so meaty and they have great flavor when roasted!
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Slow Roasted Tomatoes, Ranchero Sauce and Tomato Bisque
Posted in Heirloom Vegetables, Recipes, Tomatoes, tagged Recipes, Tomatoes on September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
July 4 Garden Photos
Posted in Corn, Gratuitous Garden Photos, Heirloom Vegetables, Pumpkins, Tomatoes on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I took some photos in the garden over the weekend. You can see them in this web gallery.
Tomatoes!
Posted in Heirloom Vegetables, Tomatoes, tagged Heirloom Vegetables, Tomatoes on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The tomato plants are growing faster than I expected. They’re already as tall as the water walls we had around them, but they also looked like little cones. Not exactly what I had in mind…
Here’s a shot of a branch on the yellow pear. It’s bent right over!
Here is a plant that I took out [...]
Too Many Tomatoes and Peppers!
Posted in Heirloom Vegetables, Spring Gardening, Tomatoes, tagged Heirloom Vegetables, Peppers, Tomatoes on April 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What a fabulous garden day!
I took a trip to the Columbia County Master Gardeners Annual Spring Garden Fair, where $1.25 tomato plants are the main event. This year they had 6,000 plants to sell. There were 49 varieties, including 24 heirlooms. I spent much of last week planning which tomatoes to buy, and stressing over whether [...]
Heirloom Vegetables – Why grow them?
Posted in Heirloom Vegetables, Neuroticisms, Resources, tagged Heirloom Vegetables on April 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday as I was telling my boss which varieties of heirloom tomatoes I was planning to buy at the Columbia County Master Gardener’s plant sale. He’s grown heirloom tomatoes before (purchased at the same sale) without particularly spectacular results. He wanted to know why I was so hot to grow them.
The truth of the matter [...]
