Heirloom Tomatoes

I have been growing heirloom tomatoes for a few years now. The last couple of years it’s been better bush, this year I tried a different kind. Since the growing time is longer its the end of August that I start getting ripe tomatoes. This year with ox blood tomatoes I just got my first ripe tomato today. Since I am a little weird I did a lot of research on heirloom tomatoes. The different thing about them is they are actually ripe when they aren’t totally red. If you wait till the skin is completely red they are over ripe and lose their taste. The reason I grow them is because the fast growing hybrids really don’t taste like the tomatoes that I remember eating right out of the garden. The sweet but acidic taste just isn’t what you get from a hybrid. They taste like supermarket tomatoes. So tonight we are having soup and toasted tomato sandwiches for supper. It’s been along wait but its worth the wait to have a great tomato.