Today I got to eat 3 cherry tomatoes. Sungold hybrid cherry, my only hybrid tomato. I bought seeds after reading about them on some of the garden blogs I follow in the hope that they would produce for a few weeks before others did. Its a crazy spring, and I cant say for sure, but it looks like Krim and black cherry are not far behind. Both heirlooms. The taste of the home grown tomato is divine, but I take a black cherry over the Sungold. That could just be my mind playing tricks and I will need to do a taste test together.
The Black cherry, Krim, Purple Cherokee, yellow pear and Belgium giant are starting to add loads of green tomatoes, currently more so than the Sungold.
The manual and often repetitive motion of gardening, free's up my mind to wonder and ponder like few other things do. Coupled with sun, fresh air, exercise and the incredible stimulus of texture, colour and scent, there are few places I would rather be. Add to this the ability to create, build and shape with the pleasure of success and triumph balanced with failure. Gardening is a wonderful world of era's past. One totally removed from computers, TV's, corporate politics and plastic.
I agree with you on the tomatoes. I love the flavor of Black Cherry. Sungold is good, but I'll take Black Cherry any day. I also love Una Hartsock, another cherry tom that is grape shaped and pink/red in color.
ReplyDeleteAdded Una Hartsock to my list to try next year. In fact, I added a page to keep track of t hings I want to do different, grow next year along with perhaps things I do again.
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