On Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 12:29:07 PM UTC-4, sf wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 15:56:48 +0100, "Ophelia" >
> wrote:
>
> > I use small plum tomatoes and if it matters, I cut mine
> > pole to pole too <g>
>
> I quartered my romas pole to pole when I slow roasted a few pounds of
> them earlier in the week. It's okay when cooking, but I hate tomatoes
> cut that way in my sandwiches. Cindy is on her own putting grape
> tomatoes in a BLT. That's something I wouldn't do either, because I
> don't want to chase the escapees.

It wasn't so bad. A couple slices fell out, but a good, firm
grasp prevented most escapes.

Grape tomatoes are what I use when my own plants aren't producing
(which is about 10 months out of the year). It's a compromise,
but I love BLTs too much to wait 10 months between them. (I
wonder if sun-dried tomatoes would be too much tomato, since
a BLT is all about balance.)

I've got one tomato on one of my two tomato plants. It's a
beefsteak type, a variety called German Johnson. The
San Marzano (plum type) has blooms, but no tomatoes yet.
It was a cool and rainy May, so they didn't make much headway
for several weeks after planting. June has been a little
on the cool side, and pretty rainy so far. Most years, the
rain stops in late June and we don't see it again until August.

Cindy Hamilton