Today I had checked out my Roma tomato plants and noticed that there were many that were ready for harvesting. I had looked at them recently and many of them were not quite ripe enough. With all the sun we have been having it looks like my Roma tomatoes had turned red quite faster than I thought they would. This is good for me and I harvested 23 of them today which means I need to start making sauce out of them.
Most of them were a good size and lived up to its reputation of an average weight of a little under a pound per tomato. Some of them actually weighed one pound and that is the beauty of these super sauce tomatoes. I still have many more on the plants and they should be ripening very soon for more harvests to come.
Now my cherry tomatoes are just as bountiful and large for the type that they are. Cherry tomatoes are usually the smallest of the three types of tomatoes, but can be real large. I have been picking plenty of these tomatoes and today I scored the largest harvest so far with 154 cherry tomatoes!
I thought I had collected the most the other day when I got a little bit more than 100. Today I was surprised to pick as much as I did and there are still many more out there to pick.
You can see from the picture on the left that there are still many cherry tomatoes that are almost ripe or still green. This will lead to many more harvests and plenty of cherry tomatoes for salads and other delicious meals.
The last thing I wanted to discuss are my onions which I had left outside to dry them out before bringing them in and using them. Now that the hot weather has dried them completely it is time to start using them. I believe that they can last for the rest of the year, but will not extend into next year like the previous harvest did. I think I will have to use more totes in order to get more onions to last the entire Winter season. I got a little bit less, but they were still a good size.
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