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It’s L.A. County Fair Time
It’s time for the Los Angeles County Fair and it’s County Fair Season all across the country.
Good luck to all the competitors!
What did you enter? Is your recipe a family treasure or from a cookbook?
Something from the County Fair Cookbook, perhaps?
I love the Fair, and it’s fun to bring home Ribbons, Plates, and souvenirs.
Let me know how you did. A Blue Ribbon perhaps?
Email a photo to my Readers’ Gallery.
Buona fortuna!!
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Banana Legs Tomato
Another in the ongoing series – Exploring Tomatoes
This low acid novelty looks a bit like a banana, well, kinda sorta – a 4 inch long bright yellow banana with a point at one end and very pale green stripes running the length of the fruit. Like I said, kinda sorta. This is one dependable and remarkably disease resistant plant. It is a determinate variety, and as such all its fruit will ripen at once, beginning at about 75 days and continuing over a two week period. The plant will then be “finished.” Known as “bush tomatoes” because of their low compact habit, determinate plants stop growing once the fruit on the top (or “terminal”) bud has set. These are not plants that will reward you with fruit all season long. Keep the determinate vs. indeterminate factor in mind when planning your tomato garden. Read the remainder of this entry »