"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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> 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.

You can grow tomatoes 10 months in a year?? Phew. The only way I can get
some like that is with my small hydroponic unit. Not too many at that. My
tomato plants are in their greenhouses now and are just coming into flower.



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