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The last few years, our farm share has regularly included a nice portion of sungold tomatoes during tomato season.

Since we, especially Ian, like sungolds a LOT, we snapped up a couple of seedlings when our CSA farm offered CSA members the opportunity to buy some. The seedlings arrived last week, and we’ve been handling them regularly, moving them inside and outside pretty regularly while hardening them off.

One of my favorite things about sungolds is their distinctive aroma. It has never really reminded me of anything in particular, I just like how they smell.If someone made a rosemary/sungold perfume, I’d be all over that. Or, rather, since it’s perfume, it would be all over me.

I noticed that the foliage of our sungold seedlings has that distinctive smell, which they left on my hands when I was moving them. I got curious about whether anybody else had anything to say about it and did some googling.

Apparently, some people think sungolds smell like marijuana. Which is not really my take on the matter, but it does crack me up!