Located in inland southern California, zone 9b.

[Image description: split image, the top photo is four tomatoes on a cutting board, the bottom photo is hundreds of multicolor heirloom tomatoes covering a kitchen counter.]

  • GiantBasil@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I’m jealous right now. A tomato seedling just sprouted mysteriously from a vase I put outside a couple of weeks ago, it’s a see onion who’s been in my room for a few years, I have no idea what tomato variety it’ll be or how this seed got there, but I’ll take it as a sign.

    Once that seedling is big enough I’ll put it on the ground and we’ll see what it is.

  • 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚@feddit.win
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    2 years ago

    Wow! What a dramatic difference. We have like five tomatoes plants and all are producing fruit but they’re ripening slowly, imo. (I’m also in socal). Hot weather is coming this week though so hopefully we both have better luck 🤞

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      2 years ago

      Desperately try to foist them on friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, passing dog walkers, the mailman… anybody who’d take some 😆

      Beyond that, we’d eat tomato based meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and we canned dozens of pints of salsa and sauce (that we’re still eating!).

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        2 years ago

        What my family did was make liters and liters of tomato sauce and then freeze them, so for the rest of the year we had really good tomato sauce.

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        2 years ago

        Well then ur neighbors are so lucky because those look really good. I imagine they taste far better than any you can find at the store

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          2 years ago

          Oh they certainly do, once you’ve had homegrown, store bought will forever taste bland. And there’s such crazy variety, some are intensely sweet, others tart or savory.