I have to do some work on my raised veggie beds, so I’m not growing full sized tomatoes this year, but I have a cherrry tomato plant, and two miniature pear tomato plants growing in the herb beds. They’ve been producing regularly, and this is one day’s harvest.
In the middle of winter, I long for the scent of summer tomatoes. I love the warm, ripe texture of a summer tomato. There is no taste quite like it. The next best thing is the taste of a cherry tomato….that burst of flavor that pops in your mouth as you bite into them.
These cherry tomatoes are Sweet 100, but next year I’m going to look for a variety that has more acid, and is marginally larger. Yum! I can hardly wait!
Arrrgh!!!
It's just my state of mind!
I can taste them just looking at your photo. Wonderful!!
They’re the perfect finish for a salad, and the red ones work in the Farmer’s Tomato Pie that I’ve been rambling on about.
I could have a bowl of tomatoes that looked like that – if you sent me about 30 tomatoes (I think I might be able to pick one this evening or tomorrow, so that will help fill the bowl – not).
Just go ahead and rub it in!
Uh…Bogie–Let’s hope that Buffy cleans up your typo! Great way to start the day.
Just for you, Cop Car…..I was rather enjoying loosing my title as the Typo Queen! lol
They look lovly. I am interested to see the yellow ones. I know that one can grow yellow tomatoes but only red ones tend to sell in the shops. We’re a traditional nation.
It seems that the grape tomatoes are very popular in our stores, but they are too sweet to my taste. I prefer the sharper tomato flavor of the cherry tomatoes. At one time you could get the yellow miniature pear tomatoes at the store, but the general public must not have liked them.
I grow the yellow, miniature pear tomatoes from seeds given me by Georgia, at work. (None this year, though) I really, really like them. Hunky Husband won’t touch a yellow tomato, of any sort (I grew large, yellows last year). He says that if it’s yellow, it isn’t a tomato! My paternal grandmother preferred yellow ones because she thought them easier on her ulcer. Obviously, anything that she served, I learned to eat (if I failed to, Elder Brother would eat it and I would go hungry! That happened with oatmeal–once! And with stewed tomatoes–once! Now, I really enjoy them both.)
Your “‘Maters” reminded me that my afore-mentioned grandmother called tomatoes “Tommy Eight Toes”.
Yes, I think the yellow miniature pear tomatoes, and the larger round yellow tomatoes are less acidic. Perhaps that’s why I want a more acidic cherry tomato for contrast.
I definitely think that cherry tomato plants out-fruit standard plants.
I agree. This one plant is just filling the kitchen with tomatoes. I hope it keeps on working like that for the next couple of months!