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Garden Master
It may be some kind of gardening heresy to say that I prefer non-red tomato varieties but, I've just done that so some some may decide it's time to gather firewood whilst I consider atonement.
Such a lack of commitment to red wouldn't have occurred to me a couple of decades ago. As with so many things, it has been an exposure to the thinking, or preferences, of others which has brought my loyalty into question. In this case, DW and I have drifted ...
Her idea back then was that she only liked cherry tomatoes - red. You will soon see how insidious all this was! I learned that there were different red cherries ..! Moreover, I learned that other gardeners had brought golden cherries into their gardens and were committed to them!
As we were trying different choices of these small tomatoes, I began to wonder if her dislike for large reds was just that she prefers a milder flavor and I wondered if color had something to do with flavor. So, my first venture deeper into the tomato garden beyond those golden cherries was with a slightly larger pink ..!
It was a hit with her! About every 5 years, she declares that a different variety is her favorite. She has gone from a pink saladette to a pink beefsteak to a golden saladette. I figure that, a perhaps yet untried, orange or yellow beefsteak may be a new favorite.
I hadn't tried any of these years ago and I had the red stained shirt fronts to prove my unquestioned loyalty. Some of the new-to-us didn't make a favorable impression. They all were interesting.
I don't know what my multi-colored stained shirts indicate. DS brought me a Tikuanyin tea to try. I'm having it with breakfast ..! A breakfast of fruit and "pumpkin" pie. I've used the same pie recipe for well over half a century but the pumpkin is a cross-bred winter squash that only showed up in my garden in 2015 ...
! Steve
Such a lack of commitment to red wouldn't have occurred to me a couple of decades ago. As with so many things, it has been an exposure to the thinking, or preferences, of others which has brought my loyalty into question. In this case, DW and I have drifted ...
Her idea back then was that she only liked cherry tomatoes - red. You will soon see how insidious all this was! I learned that there were different red cherries ..! Moreover, I learned that other gardeners had brought golden cherries into their gardens and were committed to them!
As we were trying different choices of these small tomatoes, I began to wonder if her dislike for large reds was just that she prefers a milder flavor and I wondered if color had something to do with flavor. So, my first venture deeper into the tomato garden beyond those golden cherries was with a slightly larger pink ..!
It was a hit with her! About every 5 years, she declares that a different variety is her favorite. She has gone from a pink saladette to a pink beefsteak to a golden saladette. I figure that, a perhaps yet untried, orange or yellow beefsteak may be a new favorite.
I hadn't tried any of these years ago and I had the red stained shirt fronts to prove my unquestioned loyalty. Some of the new-to-us didn't make a favorable impression. They all were interesting.
I don't know what my multi-colored stained shirts indicate. DS brought me a Tikuanyin tea to try. I'm having it with breakfast ..! A breakfast of fruit and "pumpkin" pie. I've used the same pie recipe for well over half a century but the pumpkin is a cross-bred winter squash that only showed up in my garden in 2015 ...
! Steve
