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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Wow, those photos are framers! Sure would love to purchase your artistry for my walls. Next best thing to having a garden bonanza like yours!
Hope I’m not too late in the game, but here are some tomato recipes for your repertoire. They are big hits in my kitchen…enjoy!
http://www.danaslatkin.com/salad-recipes/tomato-mozzarella-salad/
http://www.danaslatkin.com/condiments/tomato-chutney/
http://www.danaslatkin.com/salad-recipes/israeli-tomato-feta-salad/
90210 Farmgirl- Funny you mention this because we’re launching (finally) our photo store in a few weeks. So many of our images will be available as prints, canvases and other photo products. 🙂 stay tuned!
Does it have a tomato-chocolate taste???
Oh my GAWD. Your HOUSE is a farmer’s market!!!! LOL.
these pics are lovely and really imspirational!! x
Breathtaking. Just breathtaking.
Never too many tomatoes…friends are always happy to get your extras…
Wish I had this problem!
Wow! That’s amazing!
I don’t think you can ever have too many!! Those are so beautiful! I’m thinking salt & pepper tomato salads and caprese grilled cheese sandwiches! And tomato jams and tomato sauces…have fun!! xoxo
I love brandywine tomatoes! I used to think I didn’t like tomatoes — until I had a really good ripe brandywine at a farmer’s market. Now I can’t get enough!
Diane- so glad to had a taste of a really great tomato. Now you’ll be hooked!
Gorgeous photos. I love love heirloom tomatoes and so wish I had the time and patience (and a couple days under 100 degrees) to harvest them myself. Can’t wait to see how they transform in your kitchen!
Wonderful tomatoes!!!!!I love their colour and can imagine their smell and taste…mmm…amazing!!!!!
Never! However, if you thinks so, please give me a call. I’m the tomato hoarder.
Wow, tomatoes are so beautiful!
We have a vegetable patch on a field this year, which is amazing and so much fun! Our tomatoes aren’t as ripe as yours, but it’s just a matter of days!
But we harvested a lot of other vegetables already. I wrote about it on my blog, if you’re interested.
I’m looking forward having a large garden like yours some day!
Those are the prettiest tomatoes ever!! The varieties, colors, nature at its finest…welcome home!
Thanks for the late-night tomato craving. What I wouldn’t give for freshly sliced tomatoes sprinkled lightly with salt and pepper and drizzled with balsamic glaze. Mmmmm…
Emily- hopefully you’ll get some sleep over the next few week because we’ll be sharing many more tomato recipes. xoxo