So today I picked the largest tomato in my garden, a 25 ounce Brandywine. It is really quite large--that is my hand in the photo! It's probably not quite ripe yet, but I honestly am not sure how to tell, I have never actually seen a Brandywine before!All the information I have seen says that Brandywines get to be about 14 ounce, so I am quite pleased with my monster! Hopefully it tastes great, because from two plants I only had 4 fruits set!
The bottom picture shows the array of tomatoes from my garden this year. From largest to smallest they are Brandywine, Better Boy (Probably the closes to a normal "supermarket" sized tomato), Early Girl, Roma, Juliet, and Sweet 100 cherry.
I tend to pick them a bit early and ripen them inside. This seems to help avoid problems with birds, bugs, rain, and sun, and supposedly they will still taste the same.
That tomato is huge! Which variety do you like best? (as far as flavor)
ReplyDeleteThe brandywines were definitely the best tasting, but also the least prolific. It is also hard to use a 25 oz tomato in one sitting. It was fun to see the huge tomatoes, but when there are so few it is hard to justify more than a couple plants for fun.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the picture of the Brandywine here is far from being ripe. They actually did ripen to a nice solid pinkish-red color...too bad I didn't take any pictures.