Tomatoes for 2024

[Branching Out]

We still had half a dozen cherry tomato seedlings kicking around in early August, so rather than tossing them we planted them in containers under the overhang of our sundeck. They get sunshine from late morning onwards, and are really hitting their stride. Our weather has shifted to a rather rainy autumn pattern, so the extra protection from the elements is appreciated.

 

[Branching Out]

Tried to grow Yusupovskyi S Fergany last year without success, and so this year I'm trying again. After months of waiting there are finally a couple of enormous green fruits in the high tunnel. I put a cherry tomato on top, for scale. If all goes well we might finally get to taste this variety in another week or so.

 

[flowerbug]

i brought a small box of the tomatoes in from the garage. we'll eat those over the next week. still some getting red enough and still tasting like what tomatoes should taste like. we had BLTs the other day and will probably have them again today.

 

[digitS']

Scrambled eggs with cherry tomatoes for breakfast. I could have put some salsa sauce on them but will save that for crackers at lunch.

We are still being overwhelmed by Kellogg's Breakfast. I thought your late ripening variety might ripen yellow and resemble them, BranchingOut. Then, I did a search and suspect that they may be more like our Gary O Sena . BTW. The long-keeper we often have on a kitchen counter is Thessaloniki.

The Kellogg's are ripening quickly although the green fruits are housed in the garage where it has been plenty cool. I still should have plenty of green, of one variety or another, to try @flowerbug 's idea of fried green tomatoes in a sandwich . I don't remember having ever put green tomatoes in the carport fridge to slow them down but better try that. The garage has a wood floor, ceiling, interior walls, chimney too — yeah, it is really a "work shop" but it once was a one car garage . Anyway, it is safer from freezing than that carport fridge. Don't ask me how I know.

digitS'

 

[flowerbug]

fried green tomatoes. we did them in butter without breading them, but a lot of people bread them. i haven't done that in years. we have a lot of red tomatoes that need eating up and about a half dozen green ones that will probably turn before we get to them. we may give away some of these red tomatoes tomorrow.

 

[ducks4you]

So far, 7 1/2 quarts of canned tomatoes and 1 1/2 quarts of dehydrated tomatoes from this batch brought in on October 13th before the 2 nights of serious frost earlier this month. THIS is what is left as of this morning. Family has been eating on them--didn't know how much youngest DD loves the cherries, which she has taken to work for lunch. They are ripening SO Fast!
Family has been eating them with dinners, and in salads. 1 pint of dehydrated tomatoes went fast. I have refridgerated them and DD's and I will monitor. If we don't use them in the next month, we will transfer to freezer bags and freeze them for storage.
I have NOW over 70 quarts of tomatoes in the basement pantry. Family is behind on using, but everything is extra and gravy now.
We are now past the throw to the lawn for fertilizer stage. Every tomato here won't rot as long as I keep looking through the bowls.

 

[SPedigrees]

Made a necessary trip to town yesterday for groceries and had to buy grocery store tomatoes and grocery store eggs - blasphemy! Summer is over. :-(

I am approaching a point where cooking down all those bags of tomatoes in my freezers into spaghetti sauce doesn't sound so onerous anymore. I can use the freezer space. Perhaps next week...

 

[ducks4you]

I told DD's that they would need to can the tomatoes this week, Youngest DD bristled. So, I suggested that we freeze them,, and she "loudly bleated!!", which is like a scream, just not as scary.
So her sister got a primer on canning, and did a dandy job!! (see canning thread:
https://www.theeasygarden.com/threads/what-are-you-canning-now.17602/page-125#post-444177 )
to quote--
"Yes, yes, I am now a canning genius...you may commence celebrating and toasting my good health!"
So, I am spreading joy!