Day 20 of 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!, 345 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch selections are a coupla Heirloom Reddy -n- Yeller, from Metro Market via Sunset Grown/greenhousegrown.ca (https://www.sunsetgrown.com/our-produce/tomatoes/)

Funniest thing, half the Yeller went juicy/weeping/squishy overnight which required excising the bad part: Bottoms up (the bad part evident): Sliced: And ready for delicious; both had the nice, blended "Tomatoey Taste" always welcome on a Sub Zero morning: The Gotch

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Day 27 of 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!, 338 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants are a nice ribbed Pinky and a Bi-Color wannabe, both pleasantly firm from Metro Market: Under/Over: Sliced; is that glistening goodness, or what: And plated: Both had a very pleasantly mild flavor, and "al dente" texture

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Day 34 of 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!, 331 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants are a nice Purple and Reddy Yeller Bi-color from Metro Market: Rear View: Thick-Sliced (per the patented @Mark_Thompson method), and displaying dazzling shininess: And plated: The Reddy-Yeller had a nice balanced taste, tending toward tart, the Purple was near perfect, robust ripeness.

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The storebought tomatoes you can get up there are next level. Jealous.

Mark_Thompson wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:01 am The storebought tomatoes you can get up there are next level. Jealous.

Yep, $3.49/lb! And Woodman's hasn't even started stocking their vine-ripened Heirlooms, yet.

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Day 41 of 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!, 324 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants are a nice Bi-Color and a Yeller, courtesy of Metro Market and supplied by greenhousegrown.ca: Upside down: Sliced, the blurriness doesn't accurately depict their loveliness: And ready for delicious; The Bi-Color was tasty, fragrant, & firm, while the Yeller had a nice sweetness goin' on. The lettuce was superbly crunchy: The Gotch

Started curing some B today, got a garden full of L, serious T shortage though

Mark_Thompson wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 1:21 pmStarted curing some B today, got a garden full of L, SERIOUS T SHORTAGE THOUGH (bolds/caps/italics mine)

With a climate like yers, this, I'll never get!

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They're Baaaaaaack! The Woodman's vine-ripened Heirlooms, courtesy of Del Campo Reserve/Mexico, and available at (@Mark_Thompson sit down before reading) the unheard of price of $1.29/lb: There must've been over 15 cases, and while there was great variety, many were overripe and wouldn't have lasted until Monday Morning BLT Brunch: But it was necessary to spend ~ five (5) minutes digging through for some real beauties, and come up with these: The bottom two (2) were bequeathed, along with a Waltham Butternut Squarsh, to fellow TJ pal @bboomer.

To find out where those up top end up; stay tuned!

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Both were fantastic!! Unfortunately, but the time I got to Woodmans, the following day, the tomatoes on display took a turn for the worst. They were either picked through or hit their expiration date.
Fear not! Summer is only months away.

Magnificent lookin' spread, there, @bboomer, the Squarsh appears especially well-tended-n-tender; its planter is très flattered!

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Day 48 of 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!, 317 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants are from Preferred Tomato Provider Woodman's (1st of the year!). A nice Bi-Color Yeller Reddy, and Green Shouldered Purple: Round back: Readied with the patented @Mark_Thompson Thick Slicing©™® technique: And plated: From cuttin' 'em up to chowin' 'em down, ain't nothin' quite the smell-n-taste of a freshly sliced, vine-ripened, Heirloom Tomato when it's hovering around 0°F/-18C° outside.

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@Cornelius_Gotchberg Ridiculous, that’s pretty much free! Free beautiful heirlooms in the middle of winter. I’m moving.

Got my bacon smoked, now waiting on a slicer to ripen. Hopefully shouldn’t be long now.

Mark_Thompson wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 10:13 am Got my bacon smoked, now waiting on a slicer to ripen. Hopefully shouldn’t be long now.

Which Tomato is that there in the Batter's Box?

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@Cornelius_Gotchberg It’s one of Herr Sutherland’s alleged big boys. Last one on that plant hit one pound but had a punky spot so provided exactly zero BLTs. Fingers crossed on this one.

Mark_Thompson wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 7:35 pmIt’s one of Herr Sutherland’s alleged big boys.

The JUST Sutherland, or the Maui Sutherland Competition seed?

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