Tomatoes

It’s officially September! For many gardeners, this time of year is marked not only by brisk mornings, dewy toes and the bittersweet appearance of one’s breath hanging in the air, but the preservation of the harvest. I’ve discovered the great joy that comes from canning the fruits of my gardening labour. I’m hooked....
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Earlier this summer I made some notes about things happening in the garden I wanted to remember for next season. One of the things I had written down was, “Banana Leggs…don’t grow again, too scraggly.” While it is, indeed, quite a scraggly-looking determinant variety, this type of tomato is so prolific that I have...
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I first grew this heirloom tomato two summers ago and instantly fell in love. It’s a beefsteak tomato that has very few seeds and is perfect for slicing and adding to sandwiches, burgers, or simply eating with a little salt and pepper. It has a wonderful, classic “tomatoey” flavour, and the kicker is the...
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Tonight I popped out into the yard to have a look see at the tomato plants, maybe tie up a few that have been dragging their stems across the earth. For some reason, it was blissfully quiet in the yard, except for the cedar waxwings, whose chirping call burst through the quiet occasionally....
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Today the humidity has returned to this part of Ontario in a major way. Even though today is a statutory holiday, Graham is outside in the yard working hard at building cupboards for my mom’s kitchen in our basement. Today is the kind of day we like to leisurely snack, and now that tomato...
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