Mr Lonelyheart
Well, I know you all out there are on pins and needles, dying to know about mama’s (non) tomato crop and how it is (not)faring…
BUT…we are going to have more cherry tomatoes than a kitty has hairs, in about one week. When mama is in Italy around May, just after planting time (!), little cherry “volunteers” start showing their tiny leaves and if no one is here to mind the store, voila’…plants everywhere. It’s certainly the cherry tomatoes who seem to have the longevity genes!
So, I guess we’re going to have to invite doggies everywhere to come to a tomato party and hoover up the drop outs…er…offs.
Mama made sauces with them last year (when they did the same @#$%*@$ thing and she didn’t catch them in time to thin them out) but it’s just not like having San Marzano sauce tomatoes or giant beefsteaks.
Hey, at least we have SIX of those, and a few more on the way but Mr Weather has definitely changed our garden agenda. Is that happening to you?
HEY, our neighbor has tomatoes!!! (But arugula in foreground.)
Maybe pull everything out and grow nothing but arugula, haha.
No problem with that for sure. It grows wild in all the ruins in Italy, which is where mama got her first seeds years ago. Now we have enough for our little ville!
Plus I can roll in it and keep cool.
HEY, how about planting ALL the garden in primo NIP?
My ‘nana needs new. stuffing.
We like that Nip idea LouLou and if you do please send us some
All I need is an address…
We agree, Loulou. A garden of nothing but nip would be purrfect!
I am collecting seeds now to sow my new rows.
Yum I love cherry tomatoes, Loulou. A doggie party sounds fun too!
Wish I could send you some but they would be catsup by the time they arrived!
Ooooh, my favorite!! Cherry tomatoes!! I’ll come over and help cull the less perfect ones -how bout that idea? Mama shakin her head since, we, Loulou, te supermodels of the families need to lose a kilo (I probably need to lose a couple since i’s too hot for my long walks and riding in the poussette does nothing for my voluptuous bod. Haven’t lost my appetite though – you?
No, I’m back on the foodline again, but I’m sorry it takes getting a bit ill to lose weight! I’m pretty skinny right now but papa is eyeing my “waist”…
We have some San Marzano plants. They are the best for cooking sauces, etc.
Mama’s favorite!!! And we had NONE this year. There IS a great tomato in the open market shaped like a big horn, and they make wonderful sauce. The Corno tomato.
LouLou our human gets cherry tomaoies and pours salad dressing over them. No fuss & very little muss ! Enjoy !
Mama does that with olive oil and a bit of vinegar and salt and chopped basil. Drool…
Garden fresh maters are sure popular here too.
I will post a pic of our market tomatoes…but this year the taste is not as good as last.