New and exciting, ghost tomater!

For a long while now, my powers of perception have vastly improved (*Laugh track*)

Right... so I have had a bunch of tomatoes on the vine that have refused to ripen up and stayed a nasty pale yellow, but grew large and fat.  Finally, out of frustration I finally squeezed one, just to see if it was going to get any nearer to soft or if it had designs to be gargantuan before starting to redden. 

As it turned out... I had FOUR heirloom tomato varieties rather than the THREE I originally thought I had gotten from Gurney's heirloom tomato pack.

(Bumper crop of tomatoes, woo!)

Meet my anomaly: White Wonder, a beefsteak tomato (who'd have guessed? Casper, the friendly tomato?)

Sadly, I find this tomato a wee bit lacking in acid and tang like the green zebra striped, or the full flavor and spice of regular red beefsteaks.

It is still a nice juicy, sweet tomato, and I suppose if you want a tomato that won't overpower a dish in flavor here you are.  My husband and I had it with homemade falafel yesterday and it was good.




I have some really good stuff to post soon, tomorrow-ish is the hope!

I also will be working on some intensive stuff on companion planting and no-till gardening! 

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Well, that was a little weird....

Randomly, I finally found the time to thoroughly read the edibleMemphis that came in the mail a while ago (ignoring my article because dude, I wrote it, and as usual I felt could have done more with it. AUGH perfectionism, 'tis a CURSE!)

Anyways, it was just interesting to see Adrian Miller of the "Eau Sucre Begets Red Drink" write about the hibiscus sabdariffa when I mentioned it in my blog recently after the magazine publication... that Jonathon Devin mentioned ornamental peppers... with same weird coincidence as above... and that Ben Smith of Tsunami wrote about Asian greens and talked a bit about Malabar spinach... continuing odd coincidences.

Granted this is a food/garden magazine... but specific things like the hibiscus and spinach were a little odd.

Am I developing some sort of telepathy? If so, what other powers might manifest? Adamantium claws? ...or mutant healing...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vQ2RVqJCNM

Fer chrissakes people, MUTANT HEALING.