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Grow Tomatoes Review: Follow-Up Photo of Golden Pineapple Beefsteak Tomato
Slices of Golden Pineapple Beefstea Tomato With Whole Tomato
“A cooked tomato is like a cooked oyster: ruined.” – Andre Simon, The Concise Encyclopedia of Gastronomy
DoT’s Thot: If you subscribe to the thinking above, then you are the kind of gardener who will eat a ripe tomato while standing among the tomato plants, with no added embellishments — just the warmth from the sun heating up the sweet internal juices of the tomato.
If you subscribe to this thnking and do not garden, you are picky when you buy tomatoes and will judge carefully the tomatoes best suited to serve plain, maybe with the salt and pepper grinders or shakers on the table. However, you probably would not try to eat one of the large Golden Pineapple heirloom beefsteak tomatoes in the garden, saving it to savor at the dining table.
Tomato Journal Entry: Early July 2009 — Golden Pineapple Beefsteak Tomato
Early in July, we picked a couple of much awaited bicolor heirloom Golden Pineapple Beefsteak tomatoes. They were the anticipated golden yellow with red streaks on the skin. I was remiss and forgot to photograph the large tomato that was sliced for lunch, but did recover my senses enough to photograph slices of the other half we ate for dinner.
Here is the photograph showing some large moon-shaped slices. You can clearly see that the golden yellow and pale yellow internal flesh is streaked and mottled with pink . Toward the center, the pink darkens to a reddish hue. There are few seeds in the meaty flesh and it is a firm, creamy texture, not mushy, not watery, not crunchy. The tomato to the right of the plate is much smaller, as can be seen, yet clearly shows the distinctive red striping overlaying the golden yellow skin.
This tomato has had a tendency to produce some cracking on the tomato tops as the weather turns super hot in our garden and if we are not fast enough in readjusting the watering times with the soaker hose, but the beauty, texture, and taste (mild, but flavorful) of the tomato makes me look for the Golden Pineapple Beefsteak heirloom tomato seedlings every March. If I cannot find this one, I will opt for a related tomato, perhaps Pineapple or even Green Pineapple. Certainly, it does not hurt that these remind of home and the pineapples from Hawaii.
Aloha, DoT
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Dot’s Thot: How many Easter eggs can you put in an empty basket?
Only one – after that it’s not empty any more! — author unknown
Early June 2009: Volunteer Pink Thai Egg heirloom tomato plant self-seeded from 2008.
Don’t these look like little white, pink, and green easter eggs hanging on a tomato plant? Thot to show you a photo of that volunteer Pink Thai Egg plant that produced the very first tomato this season. It is suitable for pot or container gardening and is an heirloom tomato that self-seeded true to form from last year’s crop.
The plant is prolific and fills with small egg-shaped ovoids in light green, white, light pink, and finally, rosy pink colors. Picking the ripe fruit is very much like an Easter egg hunt. You have to reach in and between to get to the ripe ones. These are mild in flavor, a pretty color. Even though they are not acidic enough for my taste and lack a lot of flavor, although
Clusters of Pink Thai Egg Heirloom Tomatoes in Early June Promise the Fun of the "Thai Pink Easter Egg Hunt" Later
the plant and fruit offer the benefit of being a real looker and at peak last year was so loaded with fuit ast to be an outstanding tomato producer — for much of the season. the plant did resemble an Easter egg tree.
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Grow Tomatoes Review: 18 Oz. Omar’s Lebanese Beefsteak Tomato
Dot’s Thot: “When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on. ”
— Doris Roberts
2 July 2009 18 Oz. Omar's Lebanese Beefsteak Tomato
2 July 2009
Ever since I grew my first tomato as a child, I have held this vegetable in high esteem and consider it one of my inspirations for gardening.
Today we picked a large tomato (large for me, any way). It was rosy Omar’s Lebanese beefsteak tomato, which is described to be a medium pink tomato growing on an indeterminate tomato plant.
It said on the label that the tomatoes grow to be as large as 1 to 4 pounds each. The tag also said 90 days to fruit and it is now certainly past that point since the plant was bought.
Home Scale Bottoms Out at 1 Pound 2 Ounces
Here you can see the tomato resting on my hand. It was gorgeous, no cracks and a nice rosy red with a few green and yellow streaks just at the very top of the tomato.
Of course, I had to weigh it to see if I really got one worthy of the advertising. I took it in and worried because my scale only goes up to 18 oz. It bottomed out, so I can say that this tomato weighed at least a full 18 oz. or 1 lb. 2 oz.
I wonder what a 4 pounder would be like — how would I keep it from toppling the tomato cage? I also wondered if I might get a larger tomato off the plant later in the season. We shall see.
We decided to eat it right away for dinner and went to slice it as large rounds. The one tomato completely filled a dinner plate.
The slices were meaty, with few seeds. We ate the tomatoes with only a sprinkling of salt and black pepper freshly ground. True to its description, the tomato has a relatively mild flavor.
My husband favored the tomato, which is not surprising — he prefers the less acidic tomatoes, while I tend to like a little more
Tomato Slices from One Omar's Lebanese Beefsteak Tomato Fills a Dinner Plate
acid. The tomato did have a rich sweet flavor and I will plant it again in the garden. The plant has been strong and has more large globes hanging on it.
We’ll look at more tomatoes as we go along. In summary, my hubby calls this an excellent tomato. I consider it very good.
Aloha,
Dot
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Grow Tomatoes Review: Orange Santa; Outstanding Grape Tomato
Dot’s Thot: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” — folk saying – this goes for tomatoes, not just people.
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Grow Tomatoes Review: Orange Santa — Outstanding Grape Tomato
Yes, indeed, even in tomato gardening, absence makes the heart and tongue both grow fonder. This year, when it came time for buying and planting tomatoes, I missed the special nursery sale at the Fullerton College Horticulture Department and had to go the week after to get what I could. I did make it to the Cal State University Fullerton Arboretum Monster Tomato Sale and got more plants, many wonderful varieties for tomato gardening. I’ll post pictures of those as we progress.
However, I was unable to find one of my very favorite little tomato seedling — the Orange Santa Grape tomato. I want to share a picture today of a bright orange grape tomato that I regret not finding this year. I had planted this in 2007 and 2008 with outstanding results.
This is my personal review from growing the plant two years running in soutern California.. The plant was prolific and long-lived. This particular plant is shown in June 2007 as the first tomatoes ripened on the vine and I proudly collected and tasted my first harvest. The tomato plant is growing in one of those huge pots from your local “mega-mart”, supported by both a conical wire tomato cage and additional bamboo poles.
The fruit proved to be hardy, staying almost entirely unblemished on the vine and graciously in the tomato basket after picking for day after day — a week+ later the tomatoes were still delicious — as the tomatoes aged, they dried beautifully without me doing anything special except to keep them dry. Each large grape tomato was a beautiful golden orange color and firm, not mushy — the taste was a nice balance of sweet and acid without excess wateriness. They were great in salads or eaten out of hand. Chopped and mixed in with other tomatoes, they perked up my salsas.
My biggest surprise was this — long after my other tomato plants were dying off, this one kept fruiting. The long clusters of tomatoes dangled on through August into September. In November, there were still a thin population of tomato clusters. Gradually these diminished, and I picked my last tomato and ate it in late February 2008, a scant month away from the planting season for 2008. I grew it again in 2008 with similar results, but sadly, in 2009, I was not able to find a seedling to buy and so when I came across this photo in my stash of photos, I grew nostalgic and decided to share the photo. Hope I can find Orange Santa next season — and maybe even have some of those tomatoes for Christmas.
Aloha, Dot
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