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\"\" — August 13 (the plum and cherry tomatoes are from another gardener\u2019s plot that I had been tending to while they were on vacation)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I harvested the first tomatoes (Stupice<\/em>) on July 23 and then a few more Stupice<\/em>, Scotia<\/em> and Ailsa Craig<\/em> the following weeks. Things started to really get rolling by August 10. On August 17, I picked my first Green Zebra<\/em> and Dr. Wyche\u2019s Yellow<\/em> (two of my favorite varieties). Since then, I have been harvesting about two to three pounds every other day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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August 17<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
There have been a lot of Caprese (and other tomato) sandwiches and tomato salads on lunch<\/a> and dinner rotation, like this tomato and peach salad with whipped goat cheese<\/a>, for which I like to use Dr. Wyche\u2019s Yellow<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$ August 20<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI also made two batches of slow-roasted tomatoes<\/a>, which I packed in olive oil and froze. For this, I used mainly smaller red tomatoes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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August 23<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMy daughter made an amazing tomato galette <\/a>the other day (using red tomatoes only), with home-grown garlic and basil. It has been an exceptional tomato season so far!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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August 25<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Notes for next year: The Ailsa Craig<\/em> tomatoes were prone to cracking; Dr. Wyche\u2019s Yellow, Ananas Noire<\/em> and Black Krim <\/em>to catfacing (not a big problem and also unavoidable with the strange weather earlier this summer); and Ananas Noire<\/em> and Black Krim<\/em> were prone to rotten spots. Brimmer<\/em> was a bit crowded out by the other tomatoes and stayed small as a plant (but did produce a few very tasty tomatoes, like the large pink-red one in the picture of August 31). Same growth issue for Stupice<\/em>, which was crowded out by the calendula flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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August 31<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I harvested the first tomatoes (Stupice) on July 23 and then a few more Stupice, Scotia and Ailsa Craig the following weeks. Things started to really get rolling by August…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,5,25,30,32,51,29,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","category-cooking","category-garlic","category-harvest","category-herbs","category-preserving","category-summer","category-tomatoes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1p2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5484,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

\"\" — August 13 (the plum and cherry tomatoes are from another gardener\u2019s plot that I had been tending to while they were on vacation)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I harvested the first tomatoes (Stupice<\/em>) on July 23 and then a few more Stupice<\/em>, Scotia<\/em> and Ailsa Craig<\/em> the following weeks. Things started to really get rolling by August 10. On August 17, I picked my first Green Zebra<\/em> and Dr. Wyche\u2019s Yellow<\/em> (two of my favorite varieties). Since then, I have been harvesting about two to three pounds every other day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
August 17<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
There have been a lot of Caprese (and other tomato) sandwiches and tomato salads on lunch<\/a> and dinner rotation, like this tomato and peach salad with whipped goat cheese<\/a>, for which I like to use Dr. Wyche\u2019s Yellow<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$ August 20<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI also made two batches of slow-roasted tomatoes<\/a>, which I packed in olive oil and froze. For this, I used mainly smaller red tomatoes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
August 23<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMy daughter made an amazing tomato galette <\/a>the other day (using red tomatoes only), with home-grown garlic and basil. It has been an exceptional tomato season so far!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
August 25<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Notes for next year: The Ailsa Craig<\/em> tomatoes were prone to cracking; Dr. Wyche\u2019s Yellow, Ananas Noire<\/em> and Black Krim <\/em>to catfacing (not a big problem and also unavoidable with the strange weather earlier this summer); and Ananas Noire<\/em> and Black Krim<\/em> were prone to rotten spots. Brimmer<\/em> was a bit crowded out by the other tomatoes and stayed small as a plant (but did produce a few very tasty tomatoes, like the large pink-red one in the picture of August 31). Same growth issue for Stupice<\/em>, which was crowded out by the calendula flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
August 31<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I harvested the first tomatoes (Stupice) on July 23 and then a few more Stupice, Scotia and Ailsa Craig the following weeks. Things started to really get rolling by August…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,5,25,30,32,51,29,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","category-cooking","category-garlic","category-harvest","category-herbs","category-preserving","category-summer","category-tomatoes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1p2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5484,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}