{"id":530,"date":"2014-08-05T17:28:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T21:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2014-08-05T17:34:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T21:34:56","slug":"picked-first-steakhouse-tomato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/picked-first-steakhouse-tomato\/","title":{"rendered":"Picked First Steakhouse Tomato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today will be a quick post because I harvested the first steakhouse tomato of this season.\u00a0 Only one was picked because it happened to be the perfect color that you would love to see with any tomato.\u00a0 There were two others on the same plant, but they were not quite ready.\u00a0 I will probably pick them in a couple days at the most.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-531\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-036-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"First Steakhouse Tomato\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-036-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-036.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here you can see that my pumpkins are now starting to turn orange as well.\u00a0 Although they do take much longer time than any other type of plant.\u00a0 Melons are also very slow when it comes to ripening, but it is definitely worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-532\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-004-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin Beginning to Ripen\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-004-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-004.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here you can see that this one has a light orange color, but will become darker as time goes on.\u00a0 The both of them are on their way to becoming a large orange pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-533\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Light Ripening Color\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-001-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Picture-1-001.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today will be a quick post because I harvested the first steakhouse tomato of this season.\u00a0 Only one was picked because it happened to be the perfect color that you would love to see with any tomato.\u00a0 There were two others on the same plant, but they were not quite &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,70,98,159,200,110],"tags":[64,63,204,203,31,30],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2014-season","category-garden","category-harvesting","category-pumpkins-squash-2","category-steakhouse","category-tomatoes-2","tag-pumpkin","tag-pumpkins","tag-pumpkins-ripening","tag-steakhouse-tomato","tag-tomato","tag-tomatoes","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Picked First Steakhouse Tomato - Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I have finally harvested the first regular tomato from my garden this season. 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