Heritage Tomato

 

At the time of year when everyone is inundated with tomatoes, I just have to show you ours.

 

 

Yes, these were grown from seed.  These are the tomatoes that DS received from his friend, that he saved the seed from last year.  They are just lovely.

 

 



The size of each is perfect for sandwiches.  They are so large that they take up the slice if that is how you choose to eat them.

 

 

 

Please excuse the use of the lighter.  I needed something which I had hoped would show good scale of the size of the tomato.

 

 

On the right side of the plate, I actually cut from top to bottom one side of the tomato because I wanted to see how that would look.

 

 

 

The picture below shows a bit better.  The left side are slices from side to side.  They are so meaty and the flavor is just lovely.

 

 

I served the slices with fresh mozzarella and fresh basil from the garden.  Forgot to take a picture of it though.  I also had Italian dressing on the table, but everything was so fresh and the flavors worked so well together no dressing was needed.

 

Peppers and Green Beans, Oh MY!!

 

Yes, I guess you could say, with these last few posts I have been tooting my own horn with the pictures.  But, I know if you are here looking, you are interested, and happy for me.  SO thank you for stopping by and leave a comment for me of how your garden is doing.

 

 

 

I know that the seeds I got this year were, Sweet Cherry Peppers, from two different places and California Wonder, which was to be an orange bell pepper.

 

I have no idea where the yellow ones came from.  They are small, like the cherry peppers, but they have more of a bell shape.

 



 

 

 

Here are some of the beans that actually made it into the basket.  I have a four-legged who will bark continuously until I feed him some.  Well, more than some.  It seems like one for me and one for him some days, he loves them that much!

 

 

 

 

I know the green ones are just not ripe California Wonder Orange tomatoes, but I picked them because I noticed some damage on one, that I think was done by earwigs and I didn't want to risk leaving more to be their dinner instead of mine.