Tomatoes :)

Here are some pictures of tomatoes. :) We've been harvesting primarily cherry tomatoes so far this season. We've brought in a handful of large tomatoes. Two red, two yellow, and one big rainbow (red/yellow blend). My tablet broke a while back so I've only had the (old) digital camera for taking snapshots. That is why I have only a few photos and not every kind of tomato documented. <3 

This small handful was from July 7th, when only a few tomatoes were ripening at a time. Pictured here are chocolate cherry tomatoes and morning sunrise tomatoes (yellow). Both are quite sweet in flavor. In the case of the sunrise, the deeper the yellow, the sweeter the tomato. In my opinion, these taste like they've already been made into a sauce.



 Due to camera shortages (I was still looking around for the digital at the time), we missed nearly the entire month of July. This picture was the first we'd taken in quite a while and it was somewhere around the 28th/29th. 

You can see that by this point, we were bringing in several types of red cherries, yellow and white cherries, and our resident chocolate cherry tomatoes. Each one is delicious!

 This tomato has me stumped. I did not plant any varieties that are supposed to be solid yellow and yet, this is our second or third. This one is smaller than the other two. Each of those would make great slices on bread. This would take two slices instead of one. These taste exactly as you expect a tomato to taste. If you close your eyes, you'd swear it was a run-of-the-mill vine-ripened red tomato.

Since I was running short on pictures, I took a snap of the inside of the yellow tomato. Excuse the disposable plate. It is not pretty, I know. As you can see, the yellow tomatoes are plump and juicy. :) The flavor is almost sweet but still retains enough of that earthy vine-ripened taste one expects to find. As an aside, I can never eat enough tomatoes while they are still warm from the sunshine! :) 

This is another batch of (mostly) cherries that we've brought in. Again, you have a mix of white, yellow, red, and chocolate cherries in an assorted variety. We are bringing in something between a handful to a bowlful at a time. Generally, we eat a handful or two in the morning and bring in a full bowl at the end of the day.The larger tomato was picked too soon. It ripened to a bright orange/near red.