[Jamestown1630]

I remember summers when I made whole meals of tomatoes on toast with lots of mayo, salt and pepper. We didn’t have much access to avocados then, but even in the grocery store you could get wonderful tomatoes.

Now, you have to have a friend with a garden ;-)

(When my FIL was alive, he would pack up his first tomatoes each year and mail them to us in a box from Pennsylvania. They almost always arrived in perfect condition. He was very proud of both his eating tomatoes and the ones he grew for sauce.)

-JT

[pugmama]

Our tomatoes are just starting to ripen now. Husband planted 70 of them. Whew!

[boatbums]

I have fond memories of summer dinners of just sliced fresh picked Ruskin tomatoes and sweet corn. Maybe a few slices of Vidella onion, to boot. It doesn't get much better than eating corn and tomatoes you picked yourself that day and I still remember us girls sitting on the back porch shucking that bushel of corn!