Hanna’s Tomato Tastings 2009

This year has been terrible for tomatoes. Thanks to all this rain, the vines are strong and tall, but much like harem guards and eternally soprano choir boys, the reproductive point (or perhaps that should be round) of the species is sorely lacking.

Oh, certainly there are blossoms and a few hard, green fruit, but much like in the human world, tomatoes need a little heat to create ready offspring (unless of course you bring in a little science, but making babies with science is just about as fun as eating tomatoes ripened by science.)

But Hanna will persevere. There will be tomato tastings this year. After all, this is Cleveland and we have a few saying around here regarding the weather. Most of them cannot be repeated in front of children and church going women, but in a nut shell, they all boil down to “If you don’t like the weather in Cleveland, just wait five minutes. It will change.” August is coming and I have never been through a Cleveland summer where August was not as hot and miserable as Jennifer Aniston’s love life.

So here we have it. The final list for Hanna’s Tomato Tastings 2009:

• White Current
• White Tomesol
• Early Giant
• Red Velvet
• Blue
• Kellogg’s Breakfast
• Omar’s Lebanese
• Speckled Roman
• Cherokee Purple
• Celebrity
• Winsall
• Red Siberian
• Kimberly
• Russian 117
• Dad’s Sunset
• Black
• Mexico
• Chocolate Amazon
• Tim’s Black Ruffles
• Yellow Perfection
• Green Zebra
• Black Krim
• Aunt Ruby’s German Green
• Ernie’s Plimp
• Green Giant
• Black From Tula
• Black Prince
• Silvery Fir

Many, many tomatoes and I am looking forward to trying them all.

And, while we all twiddle our thumbs waiting for summer to take its recommended dosage of weather Viagra and get things moving, feel free to read the reviews found in previous years’ tastings:

Hanna’s Tomato Tastings 2006
Hanna’s Tomato Tastings 2007
Hanna’s Tomato Tastings 2008