The Fairfield County Master Gardeners recently returned to a fun end of summer activity, Tomato Tasting. The event started in 2011 at Nightcrawler Gardens near Pleasantville. Fast forward to our 2022 Tasting, approximately 30 different varieties were diced and tasted. In addition, our participants learned about 10 reasons your garden plants might fail as well as a bit about food preservation and rainfa
ll data around the County. Today, it continues to be a fun event where we have good discussion and fellowship. The tomato varieties deemed as the winners by the very scientific method of using pennies to vote for your favorite variety included Sun Sugar, a small hybrid cherry tomato, Pink Brandywine, a heirloom and Mountain Fresh, a disease resistant variety that is good for slicing. Some of the other varieties our 30 participants enjoyed included Mr. Stripey and Golden Jubilee, both heirloom varieties, the Miller-a Fairfield County Favorite and Atlas, a Hybrid Beefsteak variety and many of us got to taste ground cherries for the first time ever..thanks to C. Scott Anderson.