So many tomatoes!
Wow, it always thrills me when I see how much produce can come from such a small area! If you’re thinking about organic gardening and don’t know where to start, check out my e-book “Organic Food Gardening for Beginners“.
I picked a heap of my small tomatoes yesterday. Mostly they are “Tommy Toe”, but some are an heirloom variety, red with lighter coloured stripes on them. I think the heirloom variety is “Tigerella”, but I’m not positive as I grew them from a mixed heirloom seedling punnet – I like surprises!
I was debating what to do with all these tomatoes and decided to make home-made sauce from the tommy toes. My recipe calls for 4.5kgs of tomatoes, so I was thinking I didn’t have enough. So I weighed them on my bathroom scales and I have 5.9kgs. So most will go in the sauce, I’ll save the best for the table and a few for seed-saving so that I can raise my own next season.
I’ll be making soup with the Tigerella’s (saving some for the table and seed-saving too) as they have such a sweet, rich flavour. I highly recommend them if you want a delicious, easy to grow, long, prolific fruiting tomato.
I’ll be posting photos in the next few days.
Julie
Filed under: Heirloom on January 26th, 2008
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