New Jersey Tomatoes!

[bobbiwoz]

Are simply the best! I started the seeds in February, and gave 8 plants to mom in Cape May and planted the rest in Ohio. I just got back from visiting mom and brought back a few tomatoes from her garden. My Ohio plants and fruit just don't compare. The varieties are Rutgers and Beefstake and a cherry tomato without a name as far as I know.

Just had to vent a bit. Just when I think I'm more or less used to living in Ohio, something like this happens. However, our cucumbers here are terrific, DH likes cucumbers and I like tomatoes the best, so either way one of us is in salad heaven.

Bobbi

 

[chessie]

I have never had a NJ tomato that I know of but maybe it might be something about the soil on the shore. Here in Maryland we grow great tomatoes but there is a real difference in tomatoes when you cross that bridge to the eastern shore. People always rave about tomatoes from the eastern shore. Even the local produce stands differentiate between the local tomatoes and those grown on the eastern shore. When you're serving tomatoes you always make mention if they are from the eastern shore. Do you think we might be eastern shore tomato snobs?

 

[Snowwark]

Maybe Chessie is right, that it's the soil? I've never tasted New Jersey tomatoes (yet another reason to vist Joisey sometime..lol), but we do grow some very tasty tomatoes here, in Foodland Ontario.

Tomatoes, cucumbers.....sounds like a Greek salad just waiting to be thrown together!! Yummy!

Maybe we should have a NJ Tomato Bud meet next year? Food for thought....lol.

 

[DebºoºS]

I love NJ tomatoes. I too think it's the soil and climate combined. When we lived on eastern LI I thought we had the best but after tasting these I've switched loyalties.
Uh oh am I really becoming a Jersey girl?

My MIL was here over the weekend and we filled a basket full of tomatoes to take back to LI, NY.
Garden is great this season with cukes, peppers, onions, melons, butternut squash,green beans, carrots all overflowing.
No corn yet.

I have eaten so many tomatoes this summer my cheeks a red!

 

[gina2000]

I'm a Joisey tomato!

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Seriously, I love Jersey tomatoes. But truthfully, I think that anytime you pick a tomato and eat it right then and there, you have a wonderful treat! NO matter WHERE you are!

 

[DebºoºS]

Yup that's so true Gina.

When I was a very little girl I sat down one hot summer day and ate cherry tomatoes hand over fist until my Mom pulled me out.

Boy did they taste good...mmm

 

[bobbiwoz]

Yes, they taste great when they're warm from the garden!

Bobbi

 

[shoes99]

Originally posted by bobbiwoz
Yes, they taste great when they're warm from the garden!

Bobbi

I love them warm from the garden. My Dad has had a tomato garden for the last 49 years...he even made his own soil. Sadly he died this past January and I am SOOOO missing him and his tomatoes. This is the first season in my 50+ years on this planet that I have had to beg for fresh Jersey tomatoes. I didn't plant my own, was too painful, so I have been getting them fresh off the vines from neighbors, cousins and sisters. Not the same.

 

[Snowwark]

Welcome, Shoes!

I'm sorry to hear about your Dad's passing. My condolences to you.

Did he share any of his soil secrets with you? I hope you are feeling a bit better next year, and perhaps ready to grow some of your own. Warm from the vine sounds delicious!

These Jersey tomatoes are sounding better and better all the time!

Kim

 

[chessie]

Shoes, I understand how you feel, My son passed away suddenly just over a year ago. Each first is a hurdle. Maybe next year you will feel like planting a few tomato plants. Tending them can be you special time with you memories.

 

[mommytotwo]

shoes99 and chessie I'm sorry to hear about the deaths in your family.

I gotta get myself over to NJ to try some of those yummy veggies you are all talking about. Now if you see someone sneaking in your gardens, it may just be me .

 

[shoes99]

Originally posted by chessie
Shoes, I understand how you feel, My son passed away suddenly just over a year ago. Each first is a hurdle. Maybe next year you will feel like planting a few tomato plants. Tending them can be you special time with you memories.

Sorry for your unexpected loss. My Dad was 84 when he died in January. He died in his bed, in his own home. He was a real stubborn guy of Slovakian decent. The last two years, he was too light headed(due to a heart condition) to bend down and plant his tomatoes. I had to plant them for him. He supervised (shouted), while I planted. Several times last year I found him sitting in the garden (he had fallen). I live a mile away so I went over every day to check on him. His famous answer was , "I knew you would come over eventually to pick me up".......
I know it could have been worse, (Mom was in a nursing home for 4 years before she died)... I miss those darn tomatoes...and I miss Anna & John.