FOOD - Plant some tomatoes?

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FOOD - Plant some tomatoes?

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You guys strike me as big eaters of good vittles, and I would wager many of you plant some garden every spring to enjoy some fresh food you raise yourself. What is your favorie plants you grow?, and is there a particluar tomato that you can't live without? My all time favorite tomato was called "Pearson", but I think they are about extinct now, don't see them anymore.
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Cherokee Purple.

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I love a good vine ripe tomato. Nothing like tomatoes picked green.
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Cherokee Purple +1.

And strawberries as well.
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Post by Jaguarundi »

I prefer Italian ROMA variety tomato.Pear shape like fruit with rich red flavor flesh with allot less seeds.I also grow Green bell peppers and Pimentos. :D
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4th of july, beefstake, bushtomatoe. habenero and hot bannana peppers, white radishes and zuccini, more is grown, but these are the bare necessisties
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Lots of ROMA's for canning, and some 'grape' tomatos for eating, plus any of the 'beefsteak' ones for venison burgers with some onion and cheese... Yum!

Asparagus, Spaghetti squash, Blackberries (thornless hybrid plus our own wild ones), Reliance peaches, Liberty apples, Sugar Snap peas, and lots of other stuff.
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I usually buy Romas in the store cause they're the cheapest. I'm growing some Better boys in my Earthbox right now. I hope I get some before it gets too hot down here.

Check out http://www.tomatogrowers.com/ to find your favorite variety of seeds.

The way I grow mine is: www.earthbox.com

Winter is a better time to grown stuff down here.
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Celebrity and Early Girl - of course, we were picking ripe ones two weeks ago because the season is so long here. I keep threatening to build a greenhouse so I can have 'maters all year long.
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I LOVE good food but don't include tomatoes in that category. Make sphagetti sauce out of them, ok. Ditto for pizza. Otherwise, I'll pass.

Just wanted to post the counter-view, you know, to make this forum fair and balanced. :wink:
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Hobie,

I hear you - I'm not big on tomatoes unless they are home grown - but most of mine go into pico de gallo or other sauces. Onions, serrano peppers and tomatoes are staple foods around here.
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Comal Forge wrote:Hobie,

I hear you - I'm not big on tomatoes unless they are home grown - but most of mine go into pico de gallo or other sauces. Onions, serrano peppers and tomatoes are staple foods around here.
Tomato sandwiches are a favorite for the wife (ex, too). Not for me! Just can't enjoy them.
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Hobie, I know you're not a sick man, you just have an unusual set of taste buds. If I thought it would cure your problem, I would hand select the cream of the crop from my 43 planted tomato vines, wrap them carefully, and send them overnight express as soon as some could be picked, I wish I could help!!! But my dads brother would go hungry before he would eat a hamburger or eat some salad or anything else, if a tomato was visible. I understand, but still wish I had a cure for you.
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I think it's a genetic thing that surfaces every few generations. My son doesn't like tomatoes either. he'll eat pizza with sauce, Spagettii sauce or whatever else they're in. He'll even eat catsup, just nothing in it's raw state.
I'm just the opposite. cooked tomatoes tear me up. No sauce and I can't stand tomatoes in chili.
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I can't stand nuts or peanut butter (or peanuts...) either. But, I'd bet that I've eaten and enjoy some things that would initiate a gag reflex in a lot of guys here.

As I said, the wife LOVES tomatoes of all kinds.
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I usually get the Romas for cooking, but there's one store that sells great Beefsteak tomatoes which are firm and flavorful, but not wet like a lot of those vine tomatoes. They're huge, too, a center slice will cover the bread.

I don't get over there (Gelson's) too often, but when I do, it's Beefsteak time.
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My wife calls them "grape tomatoes", and we planted a bush last season. We had tomatoes all summer long, and they were great. We planted a couple of them just this weekend!!! :D
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Brandywine tomatos which are an heirloom and the meatiest I ever ate, Little yellow pear tomatos right off the vine, habaneros and jalapenos (different flavor), blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries and some bush beans this year. Hopefully added to next year.
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Comal Forge, I am very familiar with the serrano's. Your dish sounds very interisting!!! Also, nothing like a fresh, just picked, warm tomato, on bread with salt and mayo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Art
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:roll: I love the beefsteak tomatoes...they are great to can also....Oh my I love yellow crooked neck squash...fried in bacon drippings with diced onion-salt and pepper and cooked slow in a cast iron skillet with a lid...uncover and let the liquid cook out...eat with fresh sliced 'maters....yummmmmmmmmm-MissKitty
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I planted 16 San Marzano (roma) tomatoes and 6 Healthkick (romas with extra lycopene... girlfriend's idea) in my garden, along with Hllbilly Potato Leaf and Black Krim tomatoes, corn, spaghetti squash, basil, pie pumpkins, etc.

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We generally plant our tomatoes on Good Friday, however we waited another two weeks this year. We plant Big Boys and Better Boys and a couple of TommyToes. Normally there are some ripe by the last week of June. There is nothing finer than a thick slice of tomato, some mayonaise, salt, black pepper and some really fresh white bread!
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MissKitty wrote::roll: I love the beefsteak tomatoes...they are great to can also....Oh my I love yellow crooked neck squash...fried in bacon drippings with diced onion-salt and pepper and cooked slow in a cast iron skillet with a lid...uncover and let the liquid cook out...eat with fresh sliced 'maters....yummmmmmmmmm-MissKitty
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:wink: I love to cook and even more love to see someone enjoy a eating.....If ever there is a levergun meeting close enough for me and Dwight to get there I will cook us up something to eat for sure....Eating and looking at all the guns and maybe even a shooting some of them is more than a gal can imagine.....MissKitty
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tycer where can i get that cherokee purple im in hickory nc but travel through your aeria to murphy
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