Heirloom Tomatoes – Feels Good to be Home
It’s amazing what can happen in a garden over a few summer days. Last week we headed up to Park City, UT for the amazing Evo Conference. It was great seeing friends, face meeting twitter buddies, and having the chance to share what we love as speakers in two different photography workshop sessions. The ladies who put Evo on are amazing and it was a honor to be a part of it. Plus Park City is gorgeous.
Since we knew we’d be gone for 4 days with travel and the conference, early last week we went through a picked all that was close to being ripe. Peaches, plums, pluots, blackberries, zucchini, and of course tomatoes. “Now it should be a bit before the next round of garden pickings are ready!” we confidently thought.
Um… no. Were we ever so wrong. We arrived home Sunday to find dozens of peaches on the ground (Dante would have eaten them all,) but Sierra needs somebody to test if first – traumatic puppyhood garden incident), quite a few huuuugggge zucchini, more blackberries, ripe yellow squash we didn’t even know was close, and tons of tomatoes. It took about 2 hours just to harvest. Not that we are complaining. 😉
Yep it’s that time of year. That garden has officially gone gorilla, and we are loving it.
The heirloom tomatoes have gotten crazy ripe all of a sudden. Thanks to everyone to shared your tomato recipes with us on our previous post. We’ll be sharing some of those favorites in posts next week!
In the meantime, check out our previous Tomato Recipes.
Hope everyone has a great week! Happy summer days!
And last question— Is it possible to have too many tomatoes?
– Todd and Diane
(below) some favorites: chocolate stripe and red brandywine heirlooms
sticky tomato picking hands
can one really have too many tomatoes?
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Beautiful and such problems you have!!!
Loved learning from you at Evo. Thanks! Wish I lived next door so I could “borrow” some of your tomatoes. They’re gorgeous!
Barbara- thanks for joining us Barbara and it was a sweet treat to finally meet you. xoxo
Wow! You’ve got your own farmers’ market there! Beautiful! One day, I hope to be just like you guys (awesome bloggers, chef and photographers extraordinaire, and amazing gardners as well).
OMG! I’m loving all these tomatoes! I must admit I have never so much beautiful tomatoes all together in one time, its like a beauty pageant for tomatoes 🙂 Can’t wait to see the recipes you’ll concoct for us!
You can NEVER have too many tomatoes. Especially heirloom tomatoes. Especially homegrown heirloom tomatoes.
Stunning photos!
Colleen Porter it’s very sweet, but probably given the name more for it’s gorgeous deep color.
If there’s a kinda crazy I like…it’s tomato crazy! 🙂 http://t.co/FtVOnNOi
BEEEEEEE-u-tiful! Looks and tastes like Summer! 🙂
I planted LOADS of tomatoes this year…and everyone keeps telling me I’m going to have too many, but I’ve never heard of such a ridiculous thing. Too many tomatoes? Pas possible! Alas, since I’m in Seattle I’ve got a few more weeks before mine start arriving…if only I were a more patient person!
I did a tomato peach jam last summer that was divine:
http://www.loveandoliveoil.com/2011/09/spicy-tomato-peach-jam.html
Sounds like you have the makings for a few gallons of it!
LOVE all the varieties of tomatoes! We only have just begun to harvest ours!
Thank YOU again for all the great information at Evo! I really enjoyed seeing you, once again, and hearing your words of wisdom!
~Liz@HoosierHomemade
Hi Liz! it was great to see you again too and thank you for joining us. Please, always keep in touch and let us know if your photo progress. xoxo