Green tomato haiku
Small green tomatoes
often ripen in late June
but not this summer.
I always grow a few tomato plants. I even grew some during the cold ’70s. I don’t think I’ve ever waited past the Fourth of July to pluck my first bright red fruit.
Oh well… it has warmed up today. If El Niño conditions are in place, so likely as not I’ll be complaining about the heat in a month. If it depends and holds, we should experience a warm fall. With luck, I’ll be able to continue eating tomatoes until October.
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Joel (Comment#16118) July 10th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Pick them early, slice about 1/4 inch thick,
cover them with corn meal salt and pepper
fry quickly in hot fat for a tasty treat.
Not a haiku, but delicious nonetheless.
Gary (Comment#16136) July 11th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Small green tomatoes
Soon may disappear from view
Late Blight is afoot
lucia (Comment#16138) July 11th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Late Blight? Ackkk!!!
My basil seeds didn’t sprout. I’m only going to have the 4 plants I bought as starts. (I usually plant a 12ft by 3 ft deep plot of basil and make Pesto by the boat load.)
I don’t want to lose my tomatoes too.
MarkB (Comment#16145) July 11th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Here in Boston, near the end of June were were threatening the “least sunshine” record for the month – I never heard the official results, but I’m sure we did break the 100+ year record. My tomato plants are big and bushy, but this is still a little early for ripe fruit. The grass is certainly happy – lots of rain.
HankHenry (Comment#16150) July 11th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
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Anthony Watts (Comment#16153) July 11th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Vegetables are NOT climate!
Gary (Comment#16155) July 11th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Vegetables are proxies!
Btw, two consecutive nights tying record low temps in RI.
lucia (Comment#16162) July 12th, 2009 at 6:05 am
It’s warm and sunny here now. Maybe my tomatoes will ripen now.
HankHenry (Comment#16170) July 12th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Veg-e-ta-bl-es are not climate
but fiber is ev-er-y-thing.
Boris (Comment#16181) July 12th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
May global warming
Kill off all the green horned worms
That ate my maters.
lucia (Comment#16182) July 12th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Heavens to Betsy!
Big green horned worms to the south.
Don’t let them migrate!
EW (Comment#16186) July 12th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Yes, late blight is also on our potatoes and tomatoes in central Europe. Every day rains at least once. And although it is not cold in general, having a sweater at hand for all cases is advisable.
Our equivalent of Met prophecies for the next week temps over 30 Celsius. As they did last week and before last week… I wonder, when they will stop trying…
George Tobin (Comment#16190) July 12th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Smallish tomatoes
Refuse to discern warming
Growth not worth a graph
Andrew_KY (Comment#16191) July 12th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
I asked my Dad
How his tomatoes were doing
Grumble, Snort, Baaah!
Andrew
Gary (Comment#16203) July 13th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
A thousand slugs ate
All my bean and lettuce plants;
But not tomatoes
Jamie (Comment#16232) July 14th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Squirrel bites hunks
from my poor green tomatoes
throws the rest away
G. Karst (Comment#16293) July 15th, 2009 at 10:59 am
“Green” tomatoes are just too stupid to realize that this June was the warmest ever. Next time plant more experienced tomatoes.
lucia (Comment#16294) July 15th, 2009 at 11:02 am
G.Karst–
I’ve been lecturing my tomatoes about both long term trends and global averages. But they insist on responding to the short term local Chicago record breaking cool-th.