We are ‘awash’ in tomatoes. I have given two big boxes away to the fire station up the road - the last box had a gallon bag of cherry tomatoes to go with it. I’m guessing at least 20-25 tomatoes per box.
Today, I made a tomato pie for the folks which used up a couple that were going bad in spots - just cut off the half or quarter that was overripe & chunked up the rest.
This evening, mom took zinnias & sunflowers from my garden plus some tomatoes (of course!) and a couple of cucumbers to the neighbors across the street. The flowers were in two arrangements - zinnias for the little girl & sunflowers for her little brother. Mom said both kids were ‘beaming’ - the little girl is wild about flowers - anything mom takes over ends up in her bedroom - the little brother is old enough that if she gets anything, he wants something too. I think the mom/dad were happy with the tomatoes (about 8 Celebrities & some Sungold cherries).
Tomorrow will be a tomato picking day, so I’ll have a counter full again. :-) BLTs are SO good - love them. I think I might do a batch of jalapeno poppers this weekend - the jalapenos are getting big enough & I even have a couple that are going red.
I'm getting a lot of cherry tomatoes, of course, and I am trying something new...fermenting them....some of them are splitting anyway so I had to use them up....I'll know how they turn out in a few weeks..