This season's First Tomato.... (NGC)

[Ronkom]

.....from the garden today. Made a tomato sandwich. Reminded again what a cruel joke supermarket tomatoes are. I really pity city-folk who have never "grown their own"
ronkom

[Lannis]

Beat you by two days .... No photos because I ate them too quick.

We finished the spinach, radishes, and peas in June, and have been reveling in squash and zucchini and the first tomatoes.   Vine borers got my early pumpkins (they were for fun anyway just to keep the corn company), the pole beans are 8 feet high, and the watermelons and cantaloupes are all setting fruit, hope the borers don't get them ... Peppers and okra are doing well, and the sunflowers are starting to come up.

We've had lots of rain, good conditions ....

Lannis

[Guzzistajohn]

Lots of green 'maters here, can't wait to get the 1st ripe one! I got a bit of a late start with all the rain. Plenty of 'yeller squash and zukes. We ate asparagus till we were sick of it. Yep I pity the poor city folk that don't get this experience!

[pehayes]

Regina has stopped growing regular tomatoes and moved on to "heirloom" varieties.  They look ugly and all splotchy.  They don't last long after being picked.  But WOW are they ever tasty.  Don't really have to worry about the shelf life issue.  Modern tomatoes are bred for the eye, not the tongue.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

[Wayne Orwig]

I need to build a fence to keep the deer out of mine.

[Gliderjohn]

Just picked our first two. They need another day to two to ripen. Always look forward to the season's first BLT! I guess the only positive thing about city folk that have never had a home grown tomato is that they don't know what they are missing. Store tomatoes are kind of like a good looking blond with nothing between the ears.
GliderJohn

[Sasquatch Jim]

  I have been eating my own yard grown papayas.  They are best if cut in half lenghtwise, seeds removed, cut a lime in half and squeeze the juice into and on the papaya.  Beats a delicious tomato any day, and it is healthier for you.  BTW, we grow tomatos here too.
  I also grow pineapple, moringa, and coconuts.  And eat them.  The growing season is from Jan. first to Dec. thirtyfirst.

[Mayor_of_BBQ]

  I have been eating my own yard grown papayas.  They are best if cut in half lenghtwise, seeds removed, cut a lime in half and squeeze the juice into and on the papaya.  Beats a delicious tomato any day, and it is healthier for you.  BTW, we grow tomatos here too.
  I also grow pineapple, moringa, and coconuts.  And eat them.  The growing season is from Jan. first to Dec. thirtyfirst.

Do you burn around your pineapples to make them flower? I know the big plantations gas them... how exactly does that work in a home garden?

[Sasquatch Jim]

  I weed by hand.  It takes between a year and a half or two years for a pineapple to grow enough to be edible.  Moringa beans grow on a tree and are best edible when immature, less than a foot long and about 1/4 to 3/8 inch diameter.   The leaves can go into a salad or eaten right off the tree or even made into tea.  I am also growing a Noni tree from a fruit seed for medicinal purposes.  My hippie chick is growing a plot of herbs and veggies out back too.  Speaking of medicinal, I have plenty of aloevera.

[Lannis]

    My hippie chick is growing a plot of herbs and veggies out back too. 

What I want to know is, is there something you're not telling us?

[Chuck in Indiana]

We had our first home grown tomatoes last week. The grand kids were here from SoCal, and they didn't like them.  Apparently, they've never had "real" tomatoes..

[menzies]

Nothing better than home grown tomatoes at every meal whether with eggs and grits or a BLT.

[LowRyter]

salt, pepper, little olive oil..........mmmmmm mmmm

too bad all the neighbors' tree have encroached their shade upon my back yard, I can't grow them anymore. 

[lucydad]

Ate our last four, now too hot for fruit to set in Houston.  Lovely eaten as "salad tomat" with my own fresh basil, fresh mozzarella cheese, olive oil, bit of pepper and bit of balsamic vinegar...

[Guzzistajohn]

Picked me some last night, they have been a little slow with our monsoon rains this year

[Groover]

We've picked a few so far, but they are taking longer to ripen this year it seems with the daily downpours for the last month or so. We planted pretty much every type of tomato I could find this year, and can't wait to try them out.

[Wayne Orwig]

Put up a mediocre fence. The tomatoes are no longer disappearing, but now they are being nibbled on. I'm hope the hawk or fox that pass through here often help clear the rodents.