I am thrilled to see my rogue tomatoes, which sprung up in a pot on the verandah, are finally ripening.
Not bad considering they share limited space with a mature Happy Plant. It won't be long until I get to taste them. I actually don't like tomatoes, unless they are home grown.
There was hardly any effort put into this on my part. I only staked it once they started to lean and block the walkway. A bit of water, potting mix and afternoon sun (the only time the verandah lets it in) and we'll have five ripe tomotoes to remind us, why we do what we do.
They just don't make tomatoes like they used to. I remember when tomatoes used to be all juicy and not these mealy things you find in the grocery nowadays. These guys look like they're on their way to becoming the juicy ones.
ReplyDeleteSo very true - tomatoes are not tomatoes any more. I don't know why, but they taste like plastic and they're more astringent, so my taste-buds want to balk when I eat a store-bought one.
DeleteI hope these ones are juicy and smell like a real tomato when I cut them open. They should smell light and fragrant, not astringent and fishy which the shop ones, unfortunately, seem to do.
They look wonderful! I'm with you-hate anything but home grown tomatoes. I buy the vine ripened ones and the Romas during winter for salads and then end up not wanting salads because of the lack of flavor. I will learn someday, I promise. lol.
ReplyDeleteHow coincidental, I try them in summer salads at first too, and then realise I don't want summer salads with store-bought tomato in them. Although dried tomatoes preserved in olive oil are a great substitute, thrown into some mixed lettuce, red onion, olives and fetta cheese - that kind of tomato, I can live with. :)
ReplyDeleteI also dry tomatoes when I have enough to dry and love that the most. Nice intensely flavored. I can them as well for cooking but for fresh sliced raw salad, I need that juicy texture! I can wait for summer though:)
ReplyDeleteI hope this summer for you is less intense. We had some high 40's here for consecutive days. Some parts of Australia are coping with wild bushfires at the moment. It's not in our State, but it doesn't mean its any less of a risk.
DeleteChris, while I am thinking of it, the plant pictured above your categories list, is that hens and chicks? Or rock rose?
ReplyDeleteI wish is was hens and chickens, but I think they need a bit more moisture than what we have. They are a succulent though. Graptoveria 'Van Keppel', I think. They propagate really easily by cutting. In fact I got this plant originally, from a cutting off my mum's plant.
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