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Lynn Deasy is a freelance writer, author, foodie, and garden tinkerer. She lives in a 600 year old house in southern France with her husband, Christophe. Currently, she is looking for a literary agent for her memoir CA VA? STORIES FROM RURAL LIFE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE which examines the oddities of French provincial living from an outsider’s point of view through a series of adventures that provide more than a fair share of frustration, education, admiration, and blisters…. yes, lots and lots of blisters. Lynn blogs every Monday, Wednesday, and sometimes Friday.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Pleasure of the Season: Waiting for the First Tomato



“Pleasures of the Season” is a series of posts which appear from time to time.  They focus on something special that occurs only seasonally, often fleeting, and something we anticipate.  The posts are sometimes food related, sometimes not, but highlight moments of what I’ve learned about living with the seasons since moving to Southern France.


Alright, I might be jumping the gun on this, but the pleasure of the season this moment is the first tomato.  This is a Black Prince and it a purple tomato variety, so it will magenta-purple when fully ripe.

Outside of herbs and berries, the garden has not yet produced anything, but I’m watching and waiting.  We have over 60 tomato plants this year, all started from seed.  We have a rough idea of what type of tomatoes we have, but we found a few surprises after planting.  We tried to save the garden terrace with the richer soil for the larger tomatoes, but discovered they got mixed up with some smaller varieties as seedlings.  Hence, I think we’ll have some hardy Gardener’s Delight (normally the size of cherry tomatoes), and perhaps some dwarfed Beef Steak.  The full low down will come when the results are in.

So, we wait for the first tomato to finish ripening.  Both Christophe and I have already plotted what to do with it, so its demise depends who gets to it first.

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