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Gardening

Curmudgeoness

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1. What I love the most about your photos of tomatoes

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:07 PM

Jun 2015

is that they are not perfect. I had always felt that I failed when I had my tomatoes look less than ideal...and you have made me realize that they won't be. The perfect tomato is one that tastes like nothing.

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What I love the most about your photos of tomatoes Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #1

That's really nice of you to say - thanks. Yes, I do not "Martha Stewart-ize" my pics or blog. NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #2

Every time my tomatoes would crack, Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #5

I've decided my gardening obsession fulfills my love of sharing and teaching NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #6

It was either a bunch of cherokee chocolates or purples that enabled me to make NCarolinawoman Jun 2015 #3

Second row last tomato is Cherokee Purple - third row cluster of 2 are Cherokee chocolate NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #4

Well I am actually in North Raleigh--near Creedmoor and Strickland. NCarolinawoman Jun 2015 #7

What is the striped Roma looking tomato? BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #8

ah - that is my favorite paste type - Speckled Roman. It grows on a tall plant - NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #9

Oh man, I could reach through the screen and take a bite BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #10

This year is my first try in high desert hermetic Jun 2015 #11

howdy! as long as you keep them hydrated (I am watering twice a day here in Raleigh) NRaleighLiberal Jun 2015 #12