This year's tomato crop looks promising. I planted three varieties. One is cœur de bœuf, a hearty red tomato. Another is ananas, a yellow tomato. The third is another red variety, but I've forgotten what it's called.
These are cœur de bœuf. They resemble bull's hearts, apparently.
I bought the seedlings at a local market. The vendor must have had thirty or more varieties on offer, most of which I had never heard of. The cœur de bœuf and ananas are well-known and familiar to most home gardeners.
This is the red variety whose name I've forgotten. Good thing I'm not a parent.
So now I'm in maintenance mode, keeping the plants watered and pinching suckers. A lot of suckers get ahead of me and I don't have the heart to cut them off once they have blossoms, so a few get to live.
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ReplyDeleteYou have an excellent crop there. A summer of salads
DeleteLooking good,
ReplyDeleteThat first tomato is heart shaped indeed. Your crop is coming along nicely.
ReplyDeleteThis will be fun to follow :)
ReplyDeleteLooking luscious.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tomato is the heirloom Marmande. I do miss my daily tomato salad with baguette buttered with Mazières-en-Gâtine.
ReplyDeletelocal alien, I'm looking forward to it.
ReplyDeletetravel :)
evelyn, so far, we're lucky this year!
judy, and more fun to eat!
mitch, :)
chm, I planted marmandes last year, but we had a bad garden year so we didn't get many.