[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Link to Tomato Recipes!

Tomato Season Is the Best Season. These Recipes Prove It.

Picture from one of the recipes: "The Best Summer Tomato Salad!"

[MomwithHope]

Thanks Pete, I saved that link. It is going to be a great tomato year. Yesterday it hit me why we may have such a heavy production. We put up a Mason bee house last year, it filled up, had about a hundred bees released. We are seeing them all over the garden now. Hubby was weedwhacking yesterday and saw one on a late Rosa rugosa flower he shot a 12 second video. It looks like sped up motion but it is natural. I scoured the internet of an actual Mason bee collecting pollen and could not find one video so I posted ours on you tube. It is pretty amazing. He left the weedwhacker running LOL.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_iBR9nbS-oQ

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That tomato platter is gorgeous! Cannot WAIT for it to be on my table latter this summer. :)

[Pollard]

Lost power at 2am due to thunderstorms. We're running the generator but there's no way to cook or at least it would take some effort so this is breakfast. First tomato of the season in mid July which means I need to start the season earlier.

Red Deuce hybrid plants I got from the Amish store. It's an all purpose style and used as a commercial variety so it has a pretty thick skin and isn't the most flavorful but it's not tasteless at least like some store bought ones. Kind of a fruity flavor.

First cluster of Chadwick Cherry heirloom maters are starting to turn color. Hopefully last night's rain won't have them splitting today. MU Ag Research Station up the road recorded 1,45" of rain overnight.

I have a Coleman camp stove and adapter hose to run it off a 20 lb cylinder so I could fry up some bacon and eggs. Everything else is electric and most things are too much for running off a portable gennie via extension cord. Even the little air fryer is 1,500 watts, just like a space heater. Our low power microwave would run but I don't feel like moving it or digging out another ext cord. Coffee maker works which is the important thing.(650 watts) Phone/DSL run underground so they work.

The Dollar General near me lost all their refrigerated/frozen food a little over a week ago due to power outtage. They just got it restocked but they likely have no power like me so they're going to lose it all again. And of course my plans for the day require electricity.

I need to buy some golf cart batteries and a new charge controller and get my solar panels up and running again. I hate running the gennie just for phone/internet.