Tomato Wars

Dane will be at Matthews, Maria at Yorkmont, Marcel at Davidson and Daniel at Tailgate.

We will have:

Beefsteak tomatoes
Pink tomatoes
Limited quantities of Gregori and Mecklenberg tomatoes
Sungolds
Chocolate cherries
Romas
Canning tomatoes
Summer squash
Yellow spring potatoes

The weather has been hot, rainey and cooler all this week.  This makes tomatoes crack. Although many are still good, we have thrown many away.  Often I have wished for a pot bellied pig to be on the farm following us down the rows on the outside of the field - eating all the cast offs as they fly out from the mass of green tomato leaves. Instead we end up with driveways in between the rows full of red tomatoes against the brown dirt and green grass.  It is a absent-minded hobby of mine to smoosh as many as I can when I am driving up to the barn to get more bins.  Someday I am going to go off our "road" checking my rearview mirror to see how many I got.

You can tell who is picking by the rate of tomatoes flying up out of the field.  If it looks like the Tasmanian Devil might in there - it is Dane.  If there are high arching ones here and there - it is me. If you hear them flying fast - don't see them leave the field and then you hear someone proclaim that they have been directly hit followed by tons of maniacal laughter - it is Daniel and Ryan (22 and 20 years old).  There have been lots of red dirty shirts between those two this week.  Dane still thinks he is the tomato-fight king though.  I heard him instructing Daniel, "The best one is the triple whammy.  You use the first tomato as a decoy and as they are trying to figure out where it came from you nail them with the next two tomatoes in rapid fire - making sure that the last tomato is half mushy so it explodes when you hit them!"  Maniacal guy-laughter from both of them.

I hope this week it is dry.

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Maria Fisher
www.fisherfarms1933.com
704-239-5255