On Monday, July 3, 2017 at 8:58:17 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/3/2017 6:02 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 2, 2017 at 3:40:09 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >> On 7/2/2017 3:28 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> >>>
> >>> "Gary" > wrote in message
> >>> news
> >>>> On 7/2/2017 6:04 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> But... Fresh tomatoes are something I almost always keep in the house.
> >>>>> And if they look like they're starting to go bad, I will put them in a
> >>>>> soup.
> >>>>
> >>>> Nice garden fresh tomatoes can be chopped up and frozen for many
> >>>> months. Use to make a nice spaghetti sauce during the winter when
> >>>> stores only sell lousy tomatoes. They freeze well and retain that
> >>>> garden taste.
> >>>
> >>> No freezer space and I rarely make spaghetti sauce. Must also be
> >>> different where you live because our winter and summer tomatoes are no
> >>> different.
> >>
> >> They certainly are here. In summer we get fresh local tomatoes picked
> >> ripe from the field with great flavor. In winter we get either hothouse
> >> or imported ones picked too soon with no flavor but ship well.
> >
> > Do you get the fresh local tomatoes at a major grocery store? In my
> > experience, grocery stores require a consistent supplier, so it's
> > pink rocks year round.
> >
> > We've got a few smaller places that can source decent tomatoes
> > from about May through October. Excellent tomatoes are available at
> > farmers' markets, but only from about late July through early October
> > here. Once nighttime temperatures are frequently below 50 F,
> > tomatoes are pretty much done.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
>
> The local tomatoes come from either the Farmer's Market of my neighbor's
> garden. He did not plant a garden this year though.
>
> The supermarket sometimes had tomatoes that rank about mediocre if you
> want one off season.
Julie claims to have no access to a farmer's market. Or something. I
conjecture that in this thread she's talking about grocery store tomatoes.
For off-season tomatoes, I favor grape tomatoes. I'll even slice them
onto a sandwich, although that's a little messy.
Cindy Hamilton