Saturday, July 17, 2010

Ripe Green Tomatoes

This weekend, I picked the first fruits from our three varieties of tomatoes which are green (well, yellow-green) when ripe:  They're pictured with some orange and yellow tomatoes for comparison.  At the top is Absinthe, our largest green tomato, with a smaller specimen below and to the left.  On the right side of the plate are three AAA Sweet Solano, orange with yellow stripes.  You may not be able to see the stripes.  Next are Green Grape cherry tomatoes in various sizes, and some mystery yellow pears for color comparison.  Next going clockwise is Green Zebra - green with yellow stripes.  Then some orange cherries, most likely Sun Sugar (they were labeled Sun Sugar Red).  Then comes the yellow tomato which was supposed to have been Boondocks.




And there were more red and pink tomatoes.  At the rights is the unusually pretty pink tomato which was labeled "Black Krim".  It was sold along "German Johnson" and "Arkansas Traveler", so it may be one of those varieties.  At the bottom is a huge Anna Maria's Heart.  Next on the left is a Giant Belgium - not all that giant.  Next going clockwise in another big Anna Maria's Heart and a respectably-sized bicolor Orange Russian 117, which has characteristics of both oxheart and regular-leaf tomatoes.

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