I had no idea these tomatoes start the process at the size of a small sedan.
I’ve climbed that volcano and ate the best damn tomatoes in my life at a little restaurant about half way to the summit.
The sandwich at that restaurant (or the one across the road and down 1/10th of a mile, not sure which you were at) was amazing. Some sort of puff pastry with tomato and mozzarella. Tourist, schmourist, that was fantastic
How do they keep birds and other pests from shitting on them or eating them?
That’s the secret, they don’t!
Same with sea salt, if you think you’re only getting salt then I’ve got bad news for you!
At first glance I thought this was an AI generated pic of some nonsense again. I think the internet fried my brain.
Something doesn’t work out photographically, the distant tomatoes are way too big. The sharpness is fucky, too
Seems legit enough to me. The next rack of tomatoes would only be ~2m away after all given the gaps between rows aren’t going to be massive. Pretty sure the sharpness issues are primarily from repeated JPEG recompression data loss - you can find a better quality version of the image by searching ‘carmine spina tomatoes’ which both looks less compressed in the far ground and dates from at least 2022 (so before mass popularity of AI generation).
Can you link to the better version? Every version I’ve seen is exactly the same and I’m pretty sure it’s AI generated. If you study it, none if it actually makes sense.
Do they export all of their flies to Mexico or something?
My first thought as well: Those would be covered in flies, ants, and/or other bugs if I tried it around here (which is not Mexico). It makes me wonder if this photo is taken some place that doesn’t really have much in the way of bugs, as hard as that is to imagine, or if they go to great lengths to kill all the pests in the area to prevent them from taking over the tomato yield.
My dad is trying his hand at sun dried tomatoes this year and these don’t seem to be an issue. I thought his yard would be covered in flies but nope
