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.]

    • thrawn@beehaw.orgOP
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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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          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.