Had my first big tomato of the season last weekend.  It was deformed, scarred and yet oh so delicious.

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speaking from experience----this is the weather where they thrive.

get ready for plate fulls of tomatoes for dinner (remember the pepper / olive and parmesean cheese)

and fresh home made salsa (with habanero peppers)

 

DB

I've got a few that are starting to get some color.  This is after two rounds of seedlings got drowned by May and early June rain.  Bought a plant and lost the first few almost-ripe tomatoes to squirrels.  :(

This year got off to a very slow start for tomatoes.

 

We have gotten a few of our small early varieties.  And we have gotten a couple of larger tomatoes that were gnawed a bit by rats or squirrels as injured tomatoes ripen much faster.    Most years we would be buried in tomatoes by now as we start ours very early indoors and then plant out into our hoop house and or kozy coats.

Not yet. Our 12 plants are bursting with fruit, but not ready yet, not even yellowing.This may have to do with that I planted them outside only in late May, since the vegetable bed wasn't ready earlier.

An completely unscientific count estimated the number of tomatoes currently ripening at about 350 with plants still generating more flowers.

I am planning to can tomatoes for sauce this year. Never canned myself before, but my mom and my grandparents did when i was young. Looking forward to it.

Last year we froze a bushel of tomatoes, but the texture really deteriorated after 3-4 months in the freezer

I've harvested 10 cherry tomatoes in the last week.  Got a few more that should be ripe in a few days.  Yeah!

Duppie - When you froze a bushel of tomatoes, were they beefsteak or other large tomatoes, or smaller ones?  I've tried freezing whole cherry tomatoes, with the intention of using them in chili, jambalaya and other things where I wanted tomato flavor but texture wasn't a concern.  They worked quite nicely for that type of use.

We had a miserable year for tomatos.  Great year for eggplant, though.

 

After last year's nasty May, I've been a bit hesitant to get anything started, since most of the seedlings I started last March either got killed off soon after planting, or got too leggy from staying indoors and just didn't thrive.

Maybe I'll start some tomato and other warm weather seeds by the end of the month.  Seems like I could plant snow peas now.

How's everyone else doing?  I've been spending more time cleaning up the non-veggie beds, since things are coming up so early.  My daffodils and scilla started blooming in the last 2 days.  Blue lawns of Beverly are starting to bloom! 

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