Tomato Day. Linda W. is gathering names to help out with Tomato Day. Denise L. is looking for help with feeding the hordes (that’s we MG’s). Contact them with your offers to help, or Linda H. or Linda S. at the office.
In the meantime, a bunch of us elite, snobby, tomato connoisseurs are meeting weekly to preliminarily sample some of the varieties to help Steve B. whittle down the selection for Tomato Day. Including the container trial varieties, there are 64 different varieties available. We think 30 is the maximum that the public can handle, so that’s our goal.
Steve also wants written comments about each one that we taste – a subjective evaluation that he will review when he writes up his report at the end of the season, so we’ll continue meeting until the trials are over. We need a better vocabulary, though. I’m not sure Steve will get much out my comment “not very tomatoey”. Sweet? Fruity? Tangy? Salty? How about texture? Heavy? Watery? Squishy? Too firm? Not firm enough? Thick walled? Thick skinned? Mild? Strong? Full-bodied? Robust? I know what I like in tomato flavor, but I’m having a hard time describing it. Help us out. Add your suggestions to the comment box.
Also, Jane K. gives a shout out "Thanks" to all who helped get the water feature up and running in the wildlife area. The hard part is done. Still some landscaping to do. I’ll post some pictures when it’s closer to completion.
Angela and Donn send these to share:
ReplyDeleteFlavor is an intricate and harmonious combination of sweet and tangy
Lip smacking flavor, starts out sweet and ends with the perfect amount of tang
The fruit starts out sweet and develops a full, tomato flavor complemented with just the right amount of tang.
Wonderfully sweet with slightly acid flavor
Mellow sweet flavor with just a hint of acidity
Rich and balanced flavor
Sweet tomato with just the right amount of acid flavor
Refreshing with just the right amount of acid flavor
Mildly flavored with a little acidity
Full flavor and crisp texture
Delicious balanced acidic flavor and meaty flesh
Delicious rich tomato taste
Very rich, loud and distinctively spicy (Brandywine)
Mild non-acid taste and creamy texture
Rich fruity tomato flavor
Chewy texture sweet taste and few seeds