On Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 2:21:42 PM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
> ...
> > 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.

No. Sorry if that came out backward. I plant tomatoes in May, and
it's usually August before I have any ripe tomatoes. By the end
of September (or earlier), they're done. It's 10 months between
homegrown tomatoes.

Cindy Hamilton