Summer is here and that means tomatoes are on their way in! We have several varieties of early tomatoes that are ripening in our hoop houses including the golden nugget, the red washington and the juliets. My personal favorite is the golden nugget for their sweetness and the beautiful yellow color it adds to my salads and pasta.
I'm not the only one in my household who loves tomatoes. Being a newlywed, I'm learning to mesh with my new husband and his quirky habits, but even more of an adjustment is learning to live with his dog's quirky habits! He has a pug named Boo. Boo is a girl, daddy's little princess. I've always maintained that if I can accidentally step on the dog then it's not the dog for me. I prefer larger dogs, mine is a border collie mix. She has her own neurosis, but that's another blog for another day.
Boo has her own little wardrobe (especially in the winter) and is shockingly pampered beyond the normal pampering for being the pet of a farmer! One of Boo's favorite treats for "being daddy's little puglet" is tomatoes. This dog will eat tomatoes like they are the last food on earth. She runs down the rows of tomatoes and yanks them off the plants and if there is any type of round, red object lying around she will bark at it thinking it's a tomato. Yesterday I brought a pint of juliets home from the farm and set them on the counter until I made the salad for dinner. Boo stood under the counter and barked, and barked and barked until finally I said, "what?! What do you want?!" She cocked her head to the side and since both her eyes go in different directions I wasn't sure if she staring at me or the tomatoes. I figured the barking was for the tomato and sure enough, one bite shut her up...until she swallowed and then it was bark, bark, bark all over again. Finally I had to put the tomatoes in the refrigerator to hide them from her. As a side note, one should not store tomatoes in the refrigerator, it makes them mushy and lose their taste.
Apparently we grow doggone good tomatoes- tomatoes even a pug can't resist!
-Amy
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