Tomato season

This has been an early tomato season. We have picked about 400 pounds of tomatoes already! The pantry boasts 130 jars of tomato juice and three different batches of salsa. In coming weeks we will be putting up pizza sauce, and a bit more salsa.

Tomatoes and Apricots

We picked another bowl full of tomatoes yesterday, and weeded out several that had blossom end rot. We've nearly always had blossom end rot at the beginning of the season and this appears to be no exception. The good news is that the next tomatoes on the same vines do not suffer from that malady so in a couple of weeks we should be picking substantially more. Pictured below is one of the mortgage lifter variety tomatoes - about four inches across and heavy.

We also harvested about a three gallon bucket full of apricots, with many more to come in the next few days.