Mama Mia! Check out this Cherokee Purple Tomato I found yesterday while I was picking tomatoes.
This gorgeous heirloom tomato weighed in at 1 pound 5 ounces. Not too shabby if you ask me. After I spotted the Cherokee Purple tomato I ran inside and made the HH come out and take a picture of me holding it. Ha! And yes, he thinks I am a total nut.
But I couldn’t help myself. Heirloom tomatoes are beautiful.
Here are a few other tomato pictures I snapped:
Speckled Roman Tomato. Have you tried growing these? Speckled Roman tomatoes are great for making sauce. {And they look cool} I love, love, love these!
Green Zebra Tomatoes. You know these are ripe when they start to turn a wee bit yellow. Green Zebra tomatoes are a little tangy, but oh so good.
Yellow Pear Tomatoes. I grow these every year for The Girl, and because they are great in salads and add a nice color to salsa recipes too.
Principe Borghese Tomatoes. Oh my word are these good. You totally need to add these to your seed wish list for next year. This is my first time growing these and I’ll be growing them next year for sure.
Red Zebra. These are great too!
Ace bush tomatoes are an excellent slicer as well as great for sauce.
Italian Roma Bush Tomato. These are just like the ones you’d get at the grocery. Well, not exactly, these ones taste 180 million times better because they were homegrown. 😉
Here’s yesterday’s harvest. Pretty stinkin’ awesome if you ask me. Too bad we can’t grow vegetables like this year round in Western Washington.
~Mavis
Kimberly says
Your tomatoes are beautiful!! This is my first year of gardening and I’m proud to say I am hooked!!! I haven’t had any large tomatoes ripen yet but lots and lots of cherry type!! Thanks for the inspiration
Laurel says
That is beautiful! I am happy to say that I pulled almost all my tomato plants today. They are done and so am I. I canned over 50 quarts of spag sauce and then rotel, salsa, and juice. I am so done with tomatoes. I am working with tomatillos yet, you should plant some next year, they are fascinating to watch grow into their paper lantern like skins. Get good weight with them too!
Imre says
Hi, the next tomatoes you’d want to try is the Sicilian type called datterino!
Preppy Pink Crocodile says
Do you have any varieties of t’maters you don’t like the flavor of? As much as I like hearing what people do like, I think it’s equally helpful to know what just doesn’t seem worth your time if the flavor is blah.
KK
Lisa says
I know a lot of people love it, but I don’t like Black Trifele at all. They are gorgeous fruit, pear shaped and pretty, but I think they lack much taste at all. In cherries, I don’t find Super Sweet anywhere near as sweet as Large Cherry or Sungold.
I will stick with Ace and Yellow Brandywine (much better than the red) next year. With Sungold for cherries. My Sungold currently has hundreds of ripening fruit! This is its second go-around, it rested for a couple of weeks.
suzanne says
Beautiful haul. Thanks for the pic of the green zebra. I see what you mean by the yellow top. Now off to search your recipes for a potluck bbq salad.
Deborah says
Mavis,
I have grown Principe Borghese tomatoes for many years. They are traditionally grown for drying. I dehydrate mine exclusively to be used on pizza and Focaccia. You really need to try them dried. The flavor is much more intense when dried. We are having a bumper crop of them this year, which makes me very happy. Last year was very slim with the drought.
Glad you have discovered these little beauties!
Michelle says
I’m thinking it’s impressive that you’ve grown any tomatoes at all in Washington, right? Way to go Mavis! I live in HOT California and haven’t hardly grown a tomato to save my life! My Cherokee purple didn’t give me one.single.tomato.
AlysonRR says
Mavis – Can you remind me – did you grow all your tomatoes in the greenhouse? I’m on Hood Canal and I’ve only managed to grow cherry/grape-type tomatoes… I’ve gotten one or two of a couple different varieties, but never enough to satisfy my desire for nice big heirloom tomatoes! It’s the only thing I miss about living in Maryland – it was pretty hard to mess up tomatoes there, and there were always plenty 🙂
Mavis Butterfield says
Nope. I have most of them in the raised garden beds.