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danceswchopstck replied to your photo:Heirloom tomato tasting for a farm tour. (at…
Yay, Brandywine!
My sister said, if there’s a tomato she’s just going to pick and eat in the field during harvest, it’s going to be a Brandywine. The selection on that plate represented all the heirlooms they grow, and she gave a great little overview: Brandywine for classic flavor, Aunt Ruby’s German Green for a zingy tart tomato, the orange one for sweetness and low acid, the Indigo Apple for beauty (it has dark, almost black, shoulders, and is quite manageably small), Rutgers to be a general-purpose bright red tomato, and Cherokee Purple for its lovely dark flesh and mild flavor.
And then she had a bowl of Super Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes sitting next to them, because while those are a hybrid, they are just The Best cherry tomato, everyone says so.
They have a couple other tomato varieties growing, and they’re in full go now, and instead of feeding leftovers to the pigs this year they’ve actually done really really well at donating any excess produce immediately to Capital Roots, who can and do use it right up. It never really went to waste, but it’s nicer to know it’s feeding people instead of the pigs who were sometimes unappreciative. (We found out they won’t touch potatoes. Meanwhile the egg hens wouldn’t touch zucchini.)
danceswchopstck replied to your photo:Heirloom tomato tasting for a farm tour. (at…
Yay, Brandywine!
My sister said, if there’s a tomato she’s just going to pick and eat in the field during harvest, it’s going to be a Brandywine. The selection on that plate represented all the heirlooms they grow, and she gave a great little overview: Brandywine for classic flavor, Aunt Ruby’s German Green for a zingy tart tomato, the orange one for sweetness and low acid, the Indigo Apple for beauty (it has dark, almost black, shoulders, and is quite manageably small), Rutgers to be a general-purpose bright red tomato, and Cherokee Purple for its lovely dark flesh and mild flavor.
And then she had a bowl of Super Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes sitting next to them, because while those are a hybrid, they are just The Best cherry tomato, everyone says so.
They have a couple other tomato varieties growing, and they’re in full go now, and instead of feeding leftovers to the pigs this year they’ve actually done really really well at donating any excess produce immediately to Capital Roots, who can and do use it right up. It never really went to waste, but it’s nicer to know it’s feeding people instead of the pigs who were sometimes unappreciative. (We found out they won’t touch potatoes. Meanwhile the egg hens wouldn’t touch zucchini.)
