I Heart Tomatoes
Tomatoes come in all shapes and sizes. This tomato was a surprise when I picked it yesterday.
Zapotec pleated tomatoes are deeply pleated and quite wonderful. My vines are covered with fairly large fruits. They’re quite dry inside, which is a plus for making sauce. I don’t particularly like them for eating plain, like I do other tomatoes so I happily throw them in the saucepot with many other heirlooms.
Any interestingly shaped veg in your garden?
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Really, the only interestingly shaped veggie in the garden this year is the mutant pumpkins – two fused together out of one stem/vine. Everything else is pretty much shaped as expected.
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That looks like a neat tomato. I don’t have anything especially interesting. There was a really ugly tomato at the beginning of the season though.
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I remember seeing photos of your ugly tomato.
to Susy's comment
I love the complementary colors of the red and green!
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Those are the houseplants in the background.
to Susy's comment
Lovely photo :)
I grew these this year:
http://www.reneesgarden.com/seeds/packpg/veg/squash-trombetta-p.htm
Trombetta di Albenga climbing italian squash. They are hilariously long and skinny. Not really like the seed packet picture, I need to take a photo…
to s's comment
Cool, I might need to buy some of those for next year. How fun!
to Susy's comment
I wish I had tomatoes, any tomatoes. Sadly, blight took almost all of our plants this year. I hate to start growing hybrids with resistance, but may have to next year.
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I love zapotecs – they’re fantastic in sauce.
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OOoh it is beautiful!!!
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Interesting shape!
to Amy W.'s comment
I love the sight of pretty tomatoes like those…unblemished by late blight. We just had to pull up 10 or 15 plants from our beds b/c of late blight. So glad to see what others have harvested, though.
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So sorry your plants were stricken with the blight. There were a few people around here that had it as well.
to Susy's comment
This tomato looks nice, I wonder if it would be a good sub for paste tomatoes. Does it produce more then a paste tomato plant?
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I think a good paste tomato plant produces more than this plant, but perhaps in good conditions it might be better. It’s hard for me to say because I don’t have any actual full-sun areas in my garden. Most of mine only get sun for half of the day.
We’ve also had such a cool summer this year, none of the plants are producing as heavily as they would have during a hot summer.
to Susy's comment
that is without a doubt the happiest tomato i have ever seen!
to tara's comment
What a sweet tomato! Almost too good to eat…almost! Kim
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Flippin’ fantastic.
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Hello! Great site!
I write the newsletter for Berkshire Grown and would like to use your heart tomato to illustrate an item on local restaurants.
May I have the right to run it? I will gladly credit and link to your blog.
Thanks! Please let me know because I am doing the newsletter today.
Maria Nation
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