Today’s Harvest Basket August 13, 2014
Tomato, pepper, squash
Some Gold Medal tomatoes look like they are tie-dyed.
Yellow Tomatoes
Big yellow Gold Medal tomatoes are the sweetest tomatoes I ever tasted. No two tomatoes look the same. Some tomatoes are all yellow, some have a dot or swirl of red. If you are seeing a big red splash on the outside of the tomato, it will look like that on the inside too.
Six tomatoes fill up the basket (+ a pint of cherry tomatoes.)
It turns out that the yellow tomatoes are the star producers in the garden today. I picked six Gold Medal tomatoes today. Those 6 tomatoes weigh 8 pounds.
One more good thing about the yellow one-pounders, the ripe fruits tend to last a few days longer than other tomatoes once they are picked. Surprising for such a sweet tomato.
First offered to the public in 1921 as Ruby Gold in John Lewis Child’s catalog in New York. Ben Quisenberry renamed it Gold Medal in his 1976 catalog: “The sweetest tomato you ever tasted.”
Too much water.
Our rainy spring and summer have caused this golden beauty to crack. It is unsightly but doesn’t affect the taste.
