Today I went to Tomato Fest at the Trout Lake Farmer’s Market to buy my heirloom tomato ‘seeds’ for next year. The vendors sell tomatoes, not tomato seeds in packets, but really, a tomato is just a delicious and colourful packet filled with of lots and lots of seeds, right? And heirlooms have grown true seed to fruit year after year, so what better way to decide what tomatoes you want in your garden the next year: buy some heirlooms tomatoes, scoop out the seeds, and chow down. If it’s a good tomato – grow more! If it sucks, then just toss the seeds in the compost.
These are the ones I’ll be testing and saving over the next few days to see which will join my most favourite of all heirlooms (some of those favs snuck into the photo even though they came from my garden: Green Zebra, Sweetheart Grape and Siletz). All this for $8.50. Hell yeah!
It seems crazy to BUY more tomatoes when this is the giant bowl I am trying to cope with today from my home garden (this is a really, really big bowl):
Ah, well, I’m sure I’ll find SOMETHING to do with them all….om nom nom nom nom..
You had me at ‘seeds.’
I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award.
Your tomatoes are works of art. If you’re still looking for ideas on what to do with some of them, you might want to consider roasting them in the oven and then freezing for soups ans sauces at a later date.
I love how you labeled all the varieties. How delicious they must taste. Good luck with them next year.
All those tomatoes look so tempting. I love having a bowl of tomatoes in the kitchen to constantly sample from. Looks like you have had a very, very good tomato year.
Yum. I grew Black Prince last year and never tasted such an amazing tomato. I’ve finally transplanted almost all of my tomatoes now – can’t believe it’s already mid-June! I’m in Vancouver as well and was pretty disappointed by our wet and cold month of May.