Heirloom Tomatoes – and a Giveaway!
This is part two in a five part series on gardening here at Jennifer’s Kitchen.
About the time April comes around, we are all missing good, homegrown tomatoes. Not the perfectly-round, uniformly-sized, blemish-free, plastic-tasting tomatoes you find at the supermarket. But a real, meaty, rich, intensely-flavored tomato that only comes from a garden.
Giveaway
Note: This giveaway has closed. Congratulations to Wendy from Alaska!
Baker Creek Seed Company is offering one of our readers a beautiful 8-pack collection of selected heirloom tomato seeds featuring orange, pink, purple, red, green, striped, white, and yellow tomatoes! How fun!
You’ll get one package each of Casady’s Folly (pictured above), Aunt Ruby’s German Green, Barnes Mountain Yellow, Pink Oxheart, Paul Robeson, Marglobe Supreme, Great White, and Yellow Mortgage Lifter tomato seeds.
To Enter
To enter to win the Baker Creek Seed Giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite garden vegetable is – whether you grow it or just eat it.
Giveaway Rules
The giveaway is open until Monday, April 8 at NOON EST. The giveaway is only open to U.S. residents. One winner will be chosen randomly on Tuesday, April 9 and will be announced in this post. We will notify the winner via the contact email provided on the comment form. If the winner doesn’t respond in 48 hours, a new winner will be randomly chosen.
Coming Up this Week:
- Container Gardening
- How to Start Your Own Vegetable Seeds Indoors
- When Do You Start Your Seeds?
- When Do You Plant What?
- Creative Ideas for Free Vegetable Seed Starting Containers
- And more!
This giveaway is provided to you by Baker Creek Seed Company. The views and opinions expressed on Jennifer’s Kitchen are 100% my own.
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Last year I really enjoyed the crunchy American slicer cucumbers we grew….the problem was we got so many I didn’t know what to do with them all! You can only make so many pickles for the winter. Maybe Jennifer you could come up with some way to use an abundance of cucumbers….like “Cucumber Bread” or “Cucumber Cookies”
Hi Jennifer. Thanks for the great website. Eggplant is my favorite vegetable -seasoned with balsamic vinegar and garlic salt and grilled. It is very addictive.
I like to grow eggplant
My favorite garden vegetable is tomatoes…every shape, size and color!
I love green peppers
My favorite garden vegetable is tomatoes!
I love Tomatoes and Cucumbers equally, they just go together
My fave is strawberries!
Mmmm….nothing like homegrown tomatoes. I hope to grow them myself again.
My favorite vegetable is a toss up between grape tomatoes and eggplant. I grow both
I love fresh tomatoes and snap peas.
I love tomatoes. All of them
my favorite veg to grow is actually heirloom tomatoes. all of my ‘older’ neighbors grow the big boys, early girls, etc. we have always loved the pure taste and kooky look of the heirlooms. we also grow 3 types of grapes and red raspberries. thanks for the giveaway-i love this seed company!
I love tomatoes and corn
Cucumbers are my favorite!
I LOVE cucumbers, tomatoes and green peppers.
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I love garden fresh carrots!
I love tomatoes!!
My favorite thing to grow and eat is watermelon.
Corn on the cob is my favorite. I wish I could grow it but I live in a rental and so all my gardening is done in pots.
I like Zucchini to grow & to eat.
I grow vegetables every year for fun and food
All time favorite garden vegetable (fresh, in season) is indeed tomato!!!!
My favorite vegetable would have to be green beans! Thanks for the great giveaway! 🙂
I love zucchini!
I love Okra!
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I love tomatoes, I grow several different kinds every year in my container garden.
I really love radishes. I don’t grow, but I do eat!
I love cucumbers ! They are great with salt or pickled!
Tomatoes! homegrown, of course!
I enjoy cucumbers, both to grow and eat!
I love homegrown tomatoes and beets!
My favorite veggie to grow is green beans. Hate to pick them, but I love to eat them (while I’m picking) 🙂
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I love fresh tomatoes and corn.
I love crunchy cucumbers
i love my tomatoes and fruits and plant them every year
Zucchini is mt favorite, fortunately because we produce a LOT in summer.
I’m a tomato nut. I usually plant wayyyyy to many lol. But they are just so beautiful, and smell so good, and love the different tastes and comparing them all. But love to plant beans,peas, and herbs as well.
Gotta be potatoes! God bless!
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My favorite is tomatoes; I start every year with a batch of fried green tomatoes along with fried fish and grits, and then I end the tomato season by canning, freezing and drying my harvest.
For me it’s eating tomatoes! In salads, cooked or even as jam (tastes a bit like strawberry jam, but more tomatoey!) they are versatile and delicious. I would love to grow some! Really liked the reuse ideas above as is a clever use of something that most people just throw away.