{"id":1279,"date":"2012-08-18T19:54:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2012-08-18T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:54:43","slug":"tomatoes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/tomatoes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have actually been harvesting for the past couple of weeks, but the take has been limited to one or two big tomatoes at a time, or a handful of cherries. This is the first significant haul, and given the number of greenies on the Black Cherry, it won&#8217;t be the last. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/tomatoes-2\/dscn0809\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSCN0809-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Yes, we have some tomatoes\" title=\"Nature&#039;s bounty\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSCN0809-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSCN0809-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSCN0809-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to tell thanks to the lighting, but the middle two large tomatoes have a pinkish cast&#8211;those are the Arkansas Traveler. The ones on either side with the orange tinge are the St Pierre. The Black Cherry&#8230;well, it&#8217;s obvious.<\/p>\n<p>The raised bed St Pierre and Arkansas Traveler have maybe 6-8 large fruit in various stages of ripening, while the Sel. Franchi has 3, including a huge one that looks like two tomatoes that grew together. The St Pierre and Sel. Franchi in the deck pots have 2 tomatoes each, and those look to be all she wrote where they&#8217;re concerned. That&#8217;s it&#8211;no more deck pot tomatoes for me. The take simply isn&#8217;t worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>I cut up some of the Black Cherry and the cracked Arkansas Traveler, and added them to some leftover pasta dressed with the last of last summer&#8217;s basil pesto. Had some with the grilled swordfish, along with a cantaloupe-nectarine salad. Glass of chenin blanc. Ate out of the deck.<\/p>\n<p>Summer dinners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have actually been harvesting for the past couple of weeks, but the take has been limited to one or two big tomatoes at a time, or a handful of cherries. This is the first significant haul, and given the number of greenies on the Black Cherry, it won&#8217;t be the last. It&#8217;s hard to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/tomatoes-2\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,68],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-gardening","tag-food","tag-gardening"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}