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Nothing says summerLike lush ripe tomatoes, gems
Of captured sunlight
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Yeah, I love this time of year for the tomatoes most of all!
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Β So natural and fragrant
Are those cherry tomatoes on the right?Β
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The round ones are cherry tomatoes, and the smaller more oval ones are grape tomatoes!
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i haven't heard of grape tomatos before =O
the cherry ones go so well in salads!
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Yeah, the grape ones are about half the size, and so are designed for salads as will! No chopping required!
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They are completely every bit as scrumptious as you are imagining!
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Stop! You're making me drool now!
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Hee hee - get thee to a garden!
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I grew 4 tomato plants this year. Only two of them put on some blooms, and only one of those grew a tomato. Only one tomato. 
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Aww, so sad! Are they not in a sunny place? Tomatoes love sun!
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I have them in what I think is a sunny place. But it might not be sunny enough. I have to worry about the sun cooking things where I'm at. XD
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Oh, okay. How is your dirt? They also like nice loamy dirt ...Β
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That... is an excellent question. I have no idea. >.< It's a mixture of potting soil, sand, and regular farm yard dirt. Haha!
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Southerners live for tomato season. It's like a contest to see who can get the first one .
Your neighbor has a nice variety going. Perfect for salad, sauces or sammiches
I won't buy supermarket tomatoes either, I don't know what they've done to them
but my wife does from time to time...then complains about them.
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Oh, yes, and you probably have an earlier - and longer - tomato season than we do!
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Oh I'm sure we have a longer season. We can usually get them in the ground as early as the end of March though I don't admit to being that ambitious.
I like the looks of those big yellow pinkish looking ones in your photo. Do you think you could get the name of the variety from your neighbor.
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I will ask! 
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Got the answer - and they are heirloom - not hybrids even!
www.seedsavers.org/gold-medal-β¦
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Thank you Karen. I thought they might be an heirloom variety. I might try them myself next year. Thanks for the link too, I'm sure I'll have to start them from seed.
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You're welcome! My friend think those are the best tasting tomatoes of her whole crop!
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I was going to ask about the flavor, great!
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Are these from your own garden? They look like GMO lol
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Nothing GMO'd about these babies - this is what REAL tomatoes look like - different sizes, different shapes = those things at the supermarket creep me out! They are from my friend's garden!
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I was referring to the size of the tomatoes 
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Oh, probably just a different variety -Β www.burpee.com/vegetables/tomaβ¦ for examples - I forget which kind of beefsteak tomatoes that plant is!Β
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In the link you provided, especially the big ones are hybrids and I was referring to "pure" tomatoes
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Ehe hybrids are usually two kinds of real tomatoes merged just by cross pollination - which can happen naturally, but usually is human-done for reliable results! ALL our food has pretty much been genetically modified by humans over the years, just the slow way!
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I know what a hybrid is
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They are not hybrids - my friend sent me their name and a link - they are actually heirloom tomatoes -Β www.seedsavers.org/gold-medal-β¦
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they are very nice looking tomatoes^^ they are just starting to get ripe in our garden
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Well, I am sure you will be happy when they finally all ripen!
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they are starting to come in more abundant now, I love tomatoes strait from the garden
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There's nothing quite like it, is there?Β
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Yup - shared with many!
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that is great to hear.
~Zoey
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Yeah - she watered her garden, so they thrived even in this drought!
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