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August 30, 2010

A real tomato weekend

Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Susan Reimer

This weekend was all about tomatoes.

Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville hosted its second annual Tomato Festival, with a chili cookoff and a salsa contest.

There was tomato tasting, too, and you could buy pounds and pounds of your favorites! I left with Brandywine Pink and Cherokee Purple. Even the names "match."

Meanwhile down the road, Washington Gardener magazine hosted its third annual tomato tasting competition. And the winner, by a single vote, was Lemon Boy. Sungold was second and Cherokee Purple (my fav) was third.

There is no food that deserves more celebration that the tomato. But these weekend events serve as a reminder that this delicious season is coming to a close.

Indeed, recent rains have caused so many tomatoes to split and rot that my favorite farmers don't have the "seconds" I had counted on for soup.

Rats.

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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