You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato Too Actually…
July 28, 2009 - 8:52 pm 7 Comments
~I picked this big mama tomato today! I’ve been watching this one grow and just hoping the bugs wouldn’t get to it before it got ripe. The tops of my tomatoes have been splitting, (advice please) but they are super tasty and make excellent salsa. Next I’m going to try some spaghetti sauce with my roma tomatoes.
~This is one of Blue’s journal entry drawings of a tomato growing in our garden…. I just love summer!
July 28th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
That is a nice looking tomato!
July 29th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
We had one about that size growing and I had been waiting on it to ripen. I checked it one evening and decided I would pick it the following day. I went to pick it the next day and a bird had pecked a whole in it. I was so mad.
July 29th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
The splitting has to do with water. Ours are splitting too. If you don’t water them enough when we get big rains like we have been getting the tomato simply outgrows its skin. So they split. Moral of the story, water the crap out of them so when they get a surge of rain water they don’t do what they are doing.
July 29th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Joe~ thanks for the tip. I had heard it happened from lack of water, but I’ve been thinking that the ground has been so wet, how could this be happening? Makes sense.
July 30th, 2009 at 11:09 am
My mouth watered when I saw this picture. Amazing and it’s natural! Let me know how the salsa turns out
July 30th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Beautiful. We got one….that’s it…
Love you, Mom
July 30th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
My mouth is watering…