Today's Harvest: TOMATOES

I will call this post "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly".

My husband and I are using this long Memorial Day weekend as a Spring cleaning opportunity, even though it feels like Summer.Since we have a tomato thief in the neighborhood (see my Squirrels are Evil post), I made a bee-line to my tomato plants this morning. Sure enough, a bright red half eaten tomato was laying under my plants. I should have taken a picture of it, but I was so mad I hurled it over my wall.

The good news is there were several other red ripe and almost ripe tomatoes on the plants. I picked several Juliet tomatoes and one small Roma.

Ok, now for the bad and ugly. My husband planted San Marzano tomatoes this year. He's a foodie and the San Marzanos are a popular gourmet Italian tomato I guess. There were a few ripening tomatoes on his plant that looked very nice...

...until you looked at the bottoms of them. This is our first experience of blossom end rot. It is such a shame because the rest of the fruit looks healthy and beautiful.

Apparently this can happen if you water your plants inconsistently. We have been watering them every other day for 25 minutes in the early morning. Maybe we need to do 15 minutes everyday? I'm just guessing at this point. All is not lost though, there are several tomatoes on the plant that still look great. We will adjust the watering schedule and see if we can salvage the next harvest.