A cherry plum, sweet, thin-skinned and very prolific (you’ll also find it sold under ‘Red Grape Sugar Plum’). It was in the top three of our recent taste test and everyone liked it for its strong tomato flavour that’s sweet but not overly so, and its firm not mushy texture. It has a slight acidity running through it which all sweet tomatoes need. It ripens quite late compared to ‘Sungold’ and produces for a long period of time. It’s lovely in a mixed salad with the larger varieties.
Summerween Is Here to Add a Splash of Spookiness to the Summer Season
20.07.2023 - 16:21 / bhg.com
Candle-lit rooms, scary movies, pumpkin-spiced everything—that’s what… summer is made of? It is now: Thanks to #Summerween trending on TikTok and Instagram and racking up hundreds of thousands of views, a new unofficial holiday is being added to many calendars this year as people lean into the thrill of celebrating a holiday outside its traditional season. (There’s a reason we celebrate Christmas in July year after year.)
With the return of the infamous 12-foot-tall Home Depot skeleton and fresh Halloween collections already hitting store shelves, there are plenty of new ways to get into the Halloween spirit for Summerween without overdoing it and burning out on spookiness by the time October 31 arrives. Whether spooky season is your favorite one or you just want to get in on this fun summer trend, read on to learn how you can start celebrating Summerween today.
Though it appears in animated Disney series Gravity Falls, Summerween has been catching the attention of Halloween-lovers this year more than ever before thanks to social media. Summerween is just what it sounds like: the union of summer and Halloween. A 2012 episode of Gravity Falls shows the town (the place the series is named for) celebrating Halloween twice because of how much the locals loved the holiday: once on June 22, or the second to last Friday of the month, and again on October 31.
While some choose to honor that June 22 date for Summerween, others choose to celebrate on July 5, calling it the end of summer (as delineated by the passing of the Fourth of July) and the beginning of fall. (Don’t take this to mean that it’s time to pack away the pool floats: We have a few weeks of summer weather left still!) But since there’s no official date for Summerween,
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