I wander the aisles at Idylwilde looking for the tomatoiest tasting tomato. Is it the vine ripened one from Holland, or the hothouse tomato from nearby Bolton Farms or the hard as a marble, pink one from California? I know IÃll be fondling, smelling, bouncing those things for three more weeks before the first native grown tomato is on the market. In the meantime, shinydome, living two degrees further north, has again – how many years in a row is this, twenty? – produced a fully vine ripened one on the 4th of July.
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Memoirs Past and Present.
Mack has produced ripies (5) already but we are further south. These are jet star but early girl would have been here sooner. Dorothy Mae Henze used to plant Early Girl first.
We too, down here in steamy, sub-tropical Maryland, have only big fat greenies, in 5 different varieties. But our bell peppers are huge, and so abundant we can’t eat them all. Anybody got recipes for peppers?
In my Creative Recipes for Zucchini Squash and Bell Pepper cookbook I have one titled :Neighbors
Instructions:
Place in paper bag and distribute.
I am lusting after that tomato.