Our First Tomatoes
We have now harvested three tomatoes, two black krim and one sweet tangerine. We haven’t eaten the sweet tangerine yet but the two black krims we cut up with basil, olive oil, and a bit of balsamic vinegar and had over bread. They were delicious and we can’t wait for more, we have 10 tomato plants total, so I’m sure by September or so we will be sick of tomatoes! Here are a couple of pictures:
Black Krim Tomato with Basil
Sweet Tangerine Tomato
Here’s to a long and lush tomato growing season!
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July 23rd, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Lovely!
I tried growing tomatoes last summer - just one plant. They ended up getting infested with some sort of little black bugs that ate a lot of the tomatoes. I did get some to eat though.
Do you have any organic pest control tips to share?
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Thanks for posting about this, I would love to read more about this topic.
July 26th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Ever feel like trying to eat all the veggies from your CSA and garden is a sort of competition/game (albeit a fun game)? Lately as Jeff and I plan our meals for the week we have been focusing on how many servings of veggies we can eat with each meal.
July 28th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Well, the only organic pest control tip I know of is to plant marigolds near tomato plants. The pests that eat the tomato plants are supposed to like marigolds better so they'll eat them instead (at least i think that's the theory). Everyone at our garden has marigolds near the tomatoes, we planted some too and haven't had any issues with pests, but we could also just be lucky.
July 28th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Ha, I definitely feel that way. At the beginning of the season i was really excited because i'd snuck like 3 servings of greens into one meal, then I kept counting how many greens we'd get in meals until Jeremy got annoyed with me for talking about it too much.
July 29th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Those tomatoes look pretty tasty, and I don't even really like tomatoes all that much! We've gotten about 6 tomatoes off of our 2 plants, and about 4 more are ready to ripen, but I think that will be it for the season. Let's see…10 tomatoes, about $30 for all of the equipment/plants, those are some expensive tomatoes!