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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    1 year 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.

  • Eric Lyman@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    I’m in Southern CA (Zone 10a), too. Still don’t have any ripe tomatoes. Everything is super slow this year.

  • marin♡ @beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    These are so beautiful and I am obsessed. When you expecting to harvest the same amount from last year?

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      1 year ago

      Well I put the seedlings in 3 weeks later this year, so between that and the delayed heat, I’d say I’m about a month behind.

      I just checked, and I harvested my first tomatoes on May 24th last year, so yeah a month tracks.

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      1 year 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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        1 year 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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        1 year 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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          1 year 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.

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            1 year ago

            Is there any variety you recommend for its taste in case I ever decide to grow my own tomatoes? I’d never seen as many different ones as in your picture lol. I’ll eat tomato mostly in salads. Also, I live in Southern Europe so our weather should be pretty similar to SoCal.

  • 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚@feddit.win
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    1 year 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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    1 year ago

    When I see something like this, my mind also adds chopped shallot soaking in olive oil, with salt and pepper. Slice one of those yellow tomatoes, spread the shallot on top, then put on a salad or a pizza before reheating.

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      1 year ago

      Yesss, that sounds delicious. My favorite is sliced with mozzarella, basil and balsamic glaze on a slice of toasted sourdough rubbed with garlic.