You Might Be Addicted to Tomatoes

AlittleSalt · April 21, 2015

Some things just tell you - you might be addicted to tomatoes. Today, while trimming 65 tomato plants, I knocked a tiny green SSC 100 tomato off the vine. It was green and a little bigger than a popcorn kernel... so I ate it! After all, it was there.

Nobody was looking

joseph · April 21, 2015

I'm definitely not addicted...

Starlight · April 21, 2015

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Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

Some things just tell you - you might be addicted to tomatoes. Today, while trimming 65 tomato plants, I knocked a tiny green SSC 100 tomato off the vine. It was green and a little bigger than a popcorn kernel... so I ate it! After all, it was there.

Nobody was looking

Hope you walked away with a big smile on your face.

Worth1 · April 21, 2015

I thought eating uncooked green tomatoes was bad for you.

Worth

jmsieglaff · April 21, 2015

My wife's aunt and uncle make spicy pickled green tomatoes from all the green cherries when the frost is coming in the fall. After having some this winter I know what we'll be doing with all those green cherries that I otherwise threw away in the past. Delicious!

NarnianGarden · April 21, 2015

Yes, pickled green tomatoe chutney is yummy!

Gardeneer · April 21, 2015

I am more addicted to growing them than eating . It is fascinating to start from tiny seeds and get plants that get 6ft+ with fruits of different colors. It makes me high. :-)

Gardeneer

heirloomtomaguy · April 21, 2015

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Originally Posted by Gardeneer

I am more addicted to growing them than eating . It is fascinating to start from tiny seeds and get plants that get 6ft+ with fruits of different colors. It makes me high. :-)

Gardeneer

I agree. I love eating them but there is something amazing about growing and creating new tomatoes.

lrussillo · April 27, 2015

For me this started when I ate a tomato my painting teacher had grown on his farm in VA. I now know that it was a Cherokee Purple. I realized that the only way I would have a steady supply of great tomatoes would be to grow my own. I am an addict....

RobinB · April 27, 2015

I'm not addicted at all. I can stop anytime that I want. Just not right now, okay? Maybe later...

Seriously, I've often wondered what it would taste like to take those green cherry tomatoes at the end of the season and make something like fried green tomato poppers... hmmmm. You'd probably need a deep fryer to do it right.

PA_Julia · April 28, 2015

Like a couple of others have said here; It's the growing of tomato plants and the challenge that each season brings that really makes me happy. I love growing from seed, it's the only way to go!
I grow giants for competition and that really gets me going. This season besides the 30 plants I have for giants I have another eighteen growing of different heirlooms and OP's.
It's the largest number of tomato plants I'll have in my garden to date.

I can't wait to get them in the ground!!! YAY!!

AZGardener · April 28, 2015

I will add to this thread.. I LOVE to collect tomato seeds, love to start them, and planting them out. And nothing is more fun then walking the garden twice daily (at least) to see the growth, the color change, the ruffling, the plants become more wispy or curly. It's quite amazing.

Then picking the tomato. Woah. A little salt and pepper.... In love!!

Yentlsil · April 28, 2015

can somebody suggest a good recepy for pickled green tomato chutney?

April 21, 2015	#1
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	You Might Be Addicted to Tomatoes Some things just tell you - you might be addicted to tomatoes. Today, while trimming 65 tomato plants, I knocked a tiny green SSC 100 tomato off the vine. It was green and a little bigger than a popcorn kernel... so I ate it! After all, it was there. Nobody was looking

April 28, 2015	#11
PA_Julia Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Princeton, Ky Zone 7A Posts: 2,208	Like a couple of others have said here; It's the growing of tomato plants and the challenge that each season brings that really makes me happy. I love growing from seed, it's the only way to go! I grow giants for competition and that really gets me going. This season besides the 30 plants I have for giants I have another eighteen growing of different heirlooms and OP's. It's the largest number of tomato plants I'll have in my garden to date. I can't wait to get them in the ground!!! YAY!! __________________ Personal Best- 4.46 LB Big Zac 2013

April 28, 2015	#12
AZGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Zone 9b Phoenix,AZ Posts: 390	I will add to this thread.. I LOVE to collect tomato seeds, love to start them, and planting them out. And nothing is more fun then walking the garden twice daily (at least) to see the growth, the color change, the ruffling, the plants become more wispy or curly. It's quite amazing. Then picking the tomato. Woah. A little salt and pepper.... In love!! __________________ Kelly from Phx, AZ Toes and Tomatoes on FB

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joseph Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Cache Valley, N/E of The Great Salt Lake Posts: 1,244	I'm definitely not addicted...

April 21, 2015	#4
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	I thought eating uncooked green tomatoes was bad for you. Worth

April 21, 2015	#5
jmsieglaff Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Southern WI Posts: 2,742	My wife's aunt and uncle make spicy pickled green tomatoes from all the green cherries when the frost is coming in the fall. After having some this winter I know what we'll be doing with all those green cherries that I otherwise threw away in the past. Delicious!

April 21, 2015	#6
NarnianGarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Finland, EU Posts: 2,550	Yes, pickled green tomatoe chutney is yummy!

April 21, 2015	#7
Gardeneer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7 Posts: 4,919	I am more addicted to growing them than eating . It is fascinating to start from tiny seeds and get plants that get 6ft+ with fruits of different colors. It makes me high. :-) Gardeneer

April 27, 2015	#9
lrussillo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: virginia Posts: 57	For me this started when I ate a tomato my painting teacher had grown on his farm in VA. I now know that it was a Cherokee Purple. I realized that the only way I would have a steady supply of great tomatoes would be to grow my own. I am an addict....

April 27, 2015	#10
RobinB Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Near Reno, NV Posts: 1,621	I'm not addicted at all. I can stop anytime that I want. Just not right now, okay? Maybe later... Seriously, I've often wondered what it would taste like to take those green cherry tomatoes at the end of the season and make something like fried green tomato poppers... hmmmm. You'd probably need a deep fryer to do it right.

April 28, 2015	#13
Yentlsil Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: 8 Posts: 54	can somebody suggest a good recepy for pickled green tomato chutney?