Wise men say it is better to wait at least until May long weekend(Victoria day -the Monday on or before May 24 ) in Ontario to put your plants outside in the ground, except some frost-hardy plants.
Wise men also say only fools rush in.
While, the farmer in our family is one of those fools.
This year, he bought some seeds of Black Krim tomato online and and planted the seeds indoor. The plants grew pretty well. In the middle of May, Seeing the weather was very warm, he moved the tomato plants outside. Then the disaster happened. On May 17th and 18th, tempeture at night was down below 5 celsius, killing most of this tomatos plants. He had to replant some.
In Homedepot, he bought some new tomatos varities he never had before- Lemon boy tomato and Pineapple tomatos. After he told his story to his friend who is keen on gardening and only plant tomatos. His friend gave him a few plants which are The Kellogg’s Breakfast tomato and Cherokee Purple tomato.
So, a blessing in disguise, the disaster made this year became the year we have the most varities of tomatos.
Tomatos on the vine
Tomatos off the vine
The Kellogg’s Breakfast tomato
The Kellogg’s Breakfast Tomato is a large heirloom tomato cultivar that was discovered by Darrell Kellogg of Michigan. It has vibrant oranage color and oblate flattened shape. The taste is nicely balanced between sweet and tangy. sweet-yet-tangy, delicious flavor. It has a smooth texture and sweet-yet-tangy delicious flavor, making them perfect for enjoying fresh alone, being sliced in sandwiches or being cubed in salads. It adds a bright orange color when puting together with other colors of tomatos, fruits or vegetables.
Lemon boy tomato
Lemon Boy hybrid is an eye-catching tomato with bright lemon-yellow color. This deep globe fruit is slightly tangy, but also sweet and mild, meaty, and smooth — perfect for slicing to reveal the delicious, lemon-colored flesh. They add visual interest to the garden and add a splash of color to your food.
Black Krim tomato
Black Krim are medium-size heirloom tomatoes in a color range from dark maroon to deep purple or almost black.Full sun and heat brings out the deeper and darker colours. It’s not only the color but also the squat, flattened globe that make this tomato looks very adorable. It has an intense flavour with sweet and acid notes. The tomatoes are named for the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea (“Krim” in Ukrainian) where they originated.
Cherokee Purple tomato
Cherokee Purple is an old variety of heirloom tomato that develops a fruit with a bulges near the stem and has tones of brown, green and purple. Its flavor has a good balance of sweet, acid and savory.
Sungold cherry tomato
After trying a few types of cherry tomatos in the past a few years, Sungold cherry tomato is the winner for us to choose to plant years after years due to its exceptionally sweet tropical taste, aboundatn produce and Vibrant orange color.
A few ways to prepare tomatos:
Pan seared halloumi cheese with tomato and basils
When havinging this, it is better to open your mouth big to bite into the cheese , tomato and basil. The combination of the flavor from three of them will consistently knocks your socks off
Tomato salad with cucombers, avacodos and Century eggs
Pan stirred tomato with eggs, fish, samon or ShiGua
The pineapple tomato can grow very big and skin are not smoothy. I guess that is why it is called piaeapple tomato. I did't like it very much even it tasted fine. I did't even take a pictures.
See, even wise man say "never judge a book by its cover", sometime pretty cover still makes difference.
Thanks for reading
