I love tomatoes

[MissMillie]

That's it.

[freetobegay]

1. I do too

As long as they are beefstakes!

[qnr]

2. me too.

But I like a variety of them.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. What's your address..I'll mail ya some

I've still got a garden full...red ones...yellow ones...cherry tomatoes..sweet 100's...pear tomatos..you name it...and fresh basil to go with them :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. I just brought all my basil in....It was a very good year for basil....

Tomatoes are already canned and put away. MrG mowed over the garden last weekend. :( Can't wait to start getting ready for next year!

[GingerSnaps]

4. Fresh out of the garden?

:9

[Wickerman]

5. Here ya go, MissMillie

Homegrown Tomatoes by Guy Clark

Chorus:

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes,
What'd life be without home grown Tomatoes,
There's only two things that money can't buy:
Two love and home grown tomatoes.


1. There's nothin' in the world that I like better than
Bacon, lettuce and home grown tomatoes
Up in the morning and out in the garden
Pick you a ripe one, don't get a hard 'un.
Plant 'em in the springtime eat 'em in the summer,
All winter without 'em's a culinary bummer.
I forget all about the sweatin and the diggin
Every time I go out and pick me a big'un.

CHORUS

2.
You can go out and eat'em that's for sure,
But there's nothin a home grown tomato won't cure
You can put em in a salad, put em in a stew
You can make your own, your very own tomato juice
You can eat em with eggs, you can eat em with gravy
You can eat em with beans, pinto or navy
Put em on the side, put em on the middle
Home grown tomatoes on a hot cake griddle

CHORUS

3.
If I could change this life I lead,
You could call me Johnny Tomato Seed
I know what this country needs,
It's home grown tomatoes in every yard you see
When I die don't bury me
In a box in a cold dark cemetery
Out in the garden would be much better
Where I could be pushin up those home grown tomatoes.

CHORUS

[Spiffarino]

6. Yeee-haww!!!

I'll pick t' that.

[Forkboy]

7. my kingdom for a tomato sammich!

so yummy fresh from the garden!

[MissMillie]

10. on toast

whole wheat toast

[Forkboy]

11. drool

:)

[BlueHandDuo]

15. That's about the only kind of sandwich...

...I'll put mayonnaise on.

Well, that and roast turkey.

[Redneck Socialist]

8. I hate tomatoes

It is very odd, tomato sauce, ketchup all good. Tomatoes...bleeechh!

[RPM]

9. good for throwing...

better for eating!

[Robeson]

12. Nothing better than a good one!! And nothing worse than...

...a bad one! :)

[NV Whino]

13. Purple Cherokee, turkey, black bean chili

with an assortment of peppers from the garden. Devine... but a little mild. Gotta add more peppers.

[olddem43]

14. I do too but they aren't as good as they used to be before the

modern varieties. Most are harder and less juicy than the old types.

[demnan]

16. Tomatoes rule!

But now the pale zombies that impersonate them are back in the market and selling for $2.00 a pound. That's when I stick to Hunts canned.

I miss them already and I didn't even have any really, really good ones this year.

[Robb]

18. Make Raven's Tomato Cheese Pie!!

It's sooooooo goooooooood. :9

Raven's Tomato Cheese Pie

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

19. i concur

[bearfan454]

20. I'm still getting tomatoes out of the garden.

They are smaller than earlier in the year, but the plants are still putting out. Last year I had tomatoes until the first week in Dec.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Me Too!!!!!

Triple for me! I ate 6 last night. We still have homegrowns that are turning red using the old newspaper trick.

We got over 200 this year (Off a dozen plants). Not bad for a weirdly cool July and August. I eat some EVERY DAY!
The Professor

[bearfan454]

22. What is the newspaper trick ?

I don't know that one.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. As The Season Start To Wind Down. . .

. . .before the first hard frost, take your decent sized green tomatoes, wrap them in a page of newspaper, and put them in a box in a warm place. (Not hot.) We keep ours next to the dryer, so when we're drying clothes, the tomatoes probably get up to maybe 80F.

They will continue to redden for about 4 weeks after picking. You have to check every couple of days, because you don't want red ones starting to turn mushy.

I'd say, from our experience, that about 3 out of 4 will taste the same as they would have red off the vine. IOW, if 95% of ours are good, and 25% are great, we'll still get 7 out of ten good and 2 out of 9 great. Better than having them get frosted and ruined on the vine.
The Professor

[Kathleen04]

24. With salt!!

Mmmm :9