Saturday, August 20, 2011

Tomato Tasting

What a spread!





The final vote tally:

Purple Cherry - 8
Green Zebra - 7
German Stripe - 5
Sun Gold - 4
Ground Cherry - 3
Cherokee Purple - 2
Matt's Wild Cherry - 2
Earle's Compost - 2
Yellow Brandywine - 2
Amana Orange - 1
Ruby Gold (?) - 1
Purple Eva - 1
Yellow Pear - 1
Brandywine - 1
Sweet Pea - 0
White Cherry - 0
Canada "On-Vine" from Whole Foods - 0

And then it was on to poetry about rodents stealing vegetables, and pelting them with rotten tomatoes:








Unfortunately we didn't capture any of the music, not our rendition of Guy Clark's "Homegrown Tomatoes" nor Jimmy and Stephanie's "Happy Habitats." And Shannon never got a chance to read Pablo Neruda's Ode to Tomatoes. Next year!