2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!

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Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:51 am

@Cornelius_Gotchberg If you were a betting man, what Monday would you wager you’ll be having your first home garden tomato BLT on?
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Mon Apr 21, 2025 10:52 am

Mark_Thompson wrote: Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:51 am@Cornelius_Gotchberg If you were a betting man, what Monday would you wager you’ll be having your first home garden tomato BLT on?
~Three (3) months from today...?

It would hard to surpass the exquisite serendipity of last year's, which fell on July 22nd (viewtopic.php?p=129260#p129260), and led off with Big Lou
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July 22nd also happens to be (and THIS is where it gets GOOD!) National BLT Day!
https://www.internationaldays.co/event/ ... ving%20fun.

EDIT: HeyZeus Alou; this here thread may hit 10000 views by May Day!

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Homemade meat, greens, and fruit. Cut open a King Kong that was grown in a pot, but the texture left a bit to be desired, so fell back to a smaller Sutherland’s, no complaints on that one.


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Tue Apr 22, 2025 2:34 pm

@Mark_Thompson Good Lord, them there fresh Tomatoes are Très Meaty!

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Tue Apr 22, 2025 7:28 pm

Mark_Thompson wrote: Tue Apr 22, 2025 2:08 pm Homemade meat, greens, and fruit. Cut open a King Kong that was grown in a pot, but the texture left a bit to be desired, so fell back to a smaller Sutherland’s, no complaints on that one.



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Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:00 am

MissS wrote: Tue Apr 22, 2025 7:28 pmI need one of these! I'm drooling.
No kidding; posting such images (which the great unwashed have little, if any, chance of acquiring in the near future) is textbook Cruel-n-Unusual Punishment!

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Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:46 am

Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:00 am
MissS wrote: Tue Apr 22, 2025 7:28 pmI need one of these! I'm drooling.
No kidding; posting such images (which the great unwashed have little, if any, chance of acquiring in the near future) is textbook Cruel-n-Unusual Punishment!

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Getting closer every day, can’t be more than three weeks and might be less than two weeks, here to the reality of the perfect, beautiful, juicy and delicious BLT garden tomato ripe and ready to slice. The only mystery is which tomato will be first up. Early on, I kind of thought that the dark horse Vorlon would be a lock for the win, but the maiden thoroughbred Cleota Pink is coming on strong at the quarter pole. The perennial favorite Pruden’s Purple is always a front runner and surely can’t be counted out. Could be a win by a nose or even a photo finish.
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karstopography wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:46 amGetting closer every day, can’t be more than three weeks and might be less than two weeks, here to the reality of the perfect, beautiful, juicy and delicious BLT garden tomato ripe and ready to slice. The only mystery is which tomato will be first up. Early on, I kind of thought that the dark horse Vorlon would be a lock for the win, but the maiden thoroughbred Cleota Pink is coming on strong at the quarter pole. The perennial favorite Pruden’s Purple is always a front runner and surely can’t be counted out. Could be a win by a nose or even a photo finish.
We the benighted anxiously await.................................

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Wed Apr 23, 2025 1:31 pm

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The leading contenders. Cleota pink has the perfect shape for something like a sourdough bread.

I have two Pruden’s Purple plants and both plants have worthy contenders.
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