Saturday, September 15, 2007

Sweet Tomatos!!!!!

I wish I lived somewhere where we would have to grow a lot of our own food. I would love to grow corn and green beans and sweet peas and the like. The only thing we basically have in our garden is tomatos. But my what a crop of them we are getting this year. As you can see from the pictures, these babies are the size of softballs in many cases. We have a lot of little ones too and I'm not sure why some grow bigger. But these have been great....vine ripened and so much flavor. I could eat a ton of them.

I haven't converted Angie, Jeff or Megan yet, but that is okay as Mom and I will eat all that we can grow. Hope you all are having success as well. I know Mark is and Tyler is trying. But in the spirit of the Foster competitive nature....ain't no one got any ta maters like these!!



Just a sampling.



Mom holding a couple of these beauties.



Getting close to a volleyball sized one.
Dad




5 comments:

Tyler said...

I'll buy softball-sized, but that last one is a pretty wimpy volleyball.

Our tomatoes are just ripening and we have a ton!

We tried to grow some cherry tomatoes and those are finally ripening as well, but the output has been a little underwhelming.
For two plants we got 6 miniature, bite-sized tomatoes.

The tomatoes are the only thing that turned out from our pathetic garden. The slugs got everything else!

Goose said...

I love tomatoes. Wish I could get my hands on one of those

Kristen said...

Send some of those puppies our way:)

Mark said...

Our tomatoes were late ripening, but they're coming like wildfire now . . . can't say they're as big as yours, however.

Grant asked me the other day why I call them "termaties." "Grant," I explained patiently, "Somethings just can't be explained . . ."

Elizabeth said...

Those look delicious Mickey! I LOVE tomatoes. I can eat them plain!