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..
I too am a lover of heirloom tomatoes. One of my favs is Green Zebra, I may have to try Red Zebra if I can find it! (Great job on that photo with all the names on the tomatoes!)
Thanks, TC. I grew black zebra this year but the flavor paled in comparison to the green zebra. I tried the red as well, and feel that it lacks the brightness of the green. Will only grow green for zebras in the future.
Hello,
Will you give me permission to use the image of a basket full of heirloom tomatoes, where most tomatoes in basket are labeled on my web page.
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Thanks
Sure, Merrill, just credit Garden Therapy and link back to this post. Have a great day!
Wow! I bet you could make some awesome tomato water martinis with such a great selection of tomatoes! I’m inspired.