Sunday, July 26, 2020

Worth waiting for....


At last, at last....homegrown tomatoes!  First outside...I could not even see what was on the screen when I took the shots...this is cropped.  I took two or three shots and they all look basically the same.


I think they look redder against the white background.


I came right in, washed them off and cut them up.  Roger is letting his share get cold.  I have done eaten mine.  They were delicious.  I was so afraid with all the rain we had been having that they would not have much flavor.  One year, when I used to have about 20 plants, none had any flavor whatsoever.  They were pretty as a picture, but just tasted about like water.


And there is another big one getting ripe.  Maybe more than one.  I did not get down and check this one plant.  It is so very bushy that you cannot see what is growing on it.
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Eating a tomato fresh from the garden takes me back to childhood about as fast as anything.  I don't remember ever not liking tomatoes.  But my nephew, Glen, who was the same age as me spent two or three summers with us.

We would play in the creek every day, and I do mean every day.  I swear I don't think we averaged missing a day per week.  Up in the afternoon before supper we would come in hungry and tired.  We would grab a tomato or two and the salt shaker.  Sometimes we just went and sat on the edge of the porch and ate them like an apple...but I think I sometimes sat at the table and cut mine up.  I cannot remember if Glen did or not.

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I am getting ready to go in the sewing room...decide on something.  I think.



But I am reading High, Wide & Lonesome:  Growing up on the Colorado Frontier by Hal Borland.  I am almost done with it.  And I want to finish it but hate to see it end.  It is just their day to day life, written from his view when he was a kid.  And the hardships and joys.  It is well written...I got it when it was on sale for a couple dollars and consider it well spent.

I hope everyone stays save and has a good week ahead.



24 comments:

  1. i love a book that i can't wait to get to the end but never want it to end... i love tomatoes, fresh off the bush, hot from the sun, like an apple.. juice running down my chin. oh YUM!!! I don't like cold tomatoes, I like them room temp or warm from hanging in the heat. did i say YUM?

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  2. Thanks for the book review. Your tomatoes look delicious. Makes my mouth water. Enjoy your time sewing.

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  3. I love tomatoes too, always have done. I've never tried growing them though. I've never grown any vegetables, even though some, like radishes, are supposed to be dead easy to grow.

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  4. There is NOTHING better than a tomato fresh from the garden.

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  5. They are beautiful and perfect. Your book looks interesting!

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  6. So glad you got your first ones and that they were tasty. Glen loved tomatoes and we both looked forward to that first one each summer. Even a small one - we would split it!

    I remember walking out to the garden with my Daddy when I was little and and picking a tomato off the vine and Daddy always had a salt shaker out there - and we would sit and it one together.
    Heavenly!

    When I ate my first from the garden this year -
    I sat here and told Glen I was eating his share as well! I could almost hear him chuckle!

    Have a good week!

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  7. Definitely worth waiting for those beauties, and bonus that they tasted so good. Another month or so and I can look at sowing some seeds - a warm ripe tomato from the garden is unbeatable :)

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  8. Those tomatoes look delicious. Hope it tasted as good as it looked. Mine are a long way from ripe.

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  9. We always look forward to that first ripe tomato. For us it means there will be BLT sandwiches for supper. I just put High Wide and Lonesome on my list of books to read this winter.

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  10. Thank you for coming to my blog, and commenting...

    Oh I'd do, what you did! Eat it right away. A fresh tomato from your own garden, still warm... It is like eating sunshine. ~smile~

    We haven't grown any in some time. We would not seem to get any ripe, until the season was about over. ~sigh~ It's best for us, to buy them, from a farm stand.

    We buy our corn, from a farm stand, where it has been picked, that morning. F-r-e-s-h!!!! None yet... Should be coming....

    Childhood memories of playing in a creek. Delightful...!!!!

    Just finished the 12th in the "Ruth Galloway Mysteries" series. Needless to say, I love this series. Hard to find another book, to really like.

    But I have plenty, on my Tablet. With the Wuhan Virus Pandemic (%^(&^&%$##) I have come to love E-books on my tablet. "The Fussy Librarian" is a site, which sends you daily emails, with free E-book suggestions. Not all are wonderful, but enough, have been fun.

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  11. Those tomatoes look so good. I love tomatoes, but for some reason they don’t sit in my stomach well any more. Maybe it would be different with garden grown ones.

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  12. I know I've read a book by Hal Borland but not the one you mention. I'd love to find it but it may be out of print by now.
    Great looking tomatoes.

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  13. Oh Yum Yum Yum!!! I love warm tomatoes right off the vine. Eat them like apples--yessir! That is why I like growing cherry tomatoes because I can go out the back door and grab a handful and gobble away. We don't have any red ones yet but our corn is shooting up tassels--YAY!
    I will try that book.
    Good to hear from you
    MB

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  14. Hello,

    Your home grown tomatoes look delicious. I would love a tomato sandwich, yum! Take care! Enjoy your day! Wishing you a happy new week!


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  15. Wow! Your tomatoes are really big! I gave up trying to grow tomatoes in my garden. They are easily infected with pest.

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  16. Love love love home-grown tomatoes. Down here, we get those tomatoes from Grainger county.... DELICIOUS!!!!

    One 'sammich' I love is a piece of toast with mayo and a big juicy summer tomato... YUM....

    Have a great week.
    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  17. Fantastic looking tomatoes!!!!

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  18. I think we are all partial to "fruit off the plant" - I can think of my days of growing "runner beans" and munching 1/2 of them before I got back inside with a basin full. Or going to the berry farm with a bucket, and much down inside me than in the bucket...

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  19. That is a delicious looking tomato. We have just started getting tomatoes too and like you said, well worth the wait. I have memories of tomatoes and childhood too. My cousins used to make "mater biscuits". We would get hungry playing outside and she would say, lets go get a mater biscuit...a tomato from the garden and a cold biscuit. It was delicious!

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  20. I would love to find this book!! I grew up in Colorado (lived there for 50 yrs.) Oh and tomatoes (first the greener one, still on the plant is the one I'd eat right mow!)...as a kid, I'd sit out in the tomato patch & eat to my heart's content, never washing them, just right off the vine. Rich ripe & luscious. Salt shaker would be returned to the kitchen with mud sometimes.

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  21. Those tomatoes look wonderful.
    I like summer tomatoes in a caprese salad :)

    All the best Jan

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  22. We are picking our tomatoes as soon as they start to turn red because a bird is pecking them. It makes me so mad. If it wanted to eat a tomato, I would share but it wants to put one peck in each one!
    Jeannie@GetMeToTheCountry

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  23. Fresh tomatoes are the best! I haven't read much lately but need to find something good to read again.

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