Thunder woke me up this morning. I opened my eyes and saw flashes of lightning off in the distance. It's raining now, but gently. I'm listening to a long, slow rumble of thunder.
Above is our current weather forecast. Today is going to feel chilly if the temperature doesn't get warmer than 71ºF. And what's with that heat spike on Sunday?
Look at some of what Walt brought in from the vegetable garden yesterday. Some of the tomatoes are sunburned, but not ruined. Don't be fooled by the yellow tomatoes — they are ripe. We have to start making sauce, or drying a lot of these in the dehydrator. I hope the neighbors are going to want some of them too.
I want some, too! Red ones, preferably.
ReplyDeleteI'm having yellow tomatoes for lunch. I'll let you know how they compare to the red ones.
DeleteMy impression is the yellow tomatoes are sweeter and do not taste like regular tomatoes!
DeleteMy impression after a side-by-side tasting is that the yellow ones and the red ones taste exactly the same. And neither one is very sweet. In other words, the extreme heat has made them look ripe, but they are still immature. They need time to finish the ripening process.
ReplyDeleteMemories of childhood in North Carolina.... when my brother and I would pick tomatoes from Grandpas garden so Mama could make us tomato sandwiches for lunch :) Now I would love it ... then I hated having to go to the garden and pick things !
ReplyDeleteSome of the best tomatoes I can remember ever eating were tomatoes my mother grew in our back yard garden in Morehead City. The sandy soil and warm weather there produced fine tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad grew delicious tomatoes in KY. He sold them at a local grocery by the bushel. Your tomatoes look great.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if we'll get bushels of tomatoes from or garden, but maybe.
DeleteYour tomatoes look great. How can you tell if a tomato is sunburned, I really don't know.
ReplyDeleteThe sunburned tomato looks discolored and/or shriveled on top or on one side. A report about the apple crop this summer said the apples were "cooked on the trees" by the sun and high heat.
DeleteThanks Ken, most interesting. I'm wondering if high heat is a factor in tasteless produce here in CA this summer, where it's been unusually hot.
DeleteI think tomatoes, like grapes, need cool nights and warm days to ripen properly. We are back to cool mornings now, and cool days to for the moment.
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