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Beautiful Tania
here is my harvest at our volunteer garden this am - Renee's tricolour bush bean mix along with some dill and parsley as for the eggplant - I have no idea other than it is so hot at my community garden plot - full sun all day long - and lots of bees visiting my cerinthe major plants if that makes a difference also - thank you for saving Roger's Sweet Light Yellow - just an amazing tomato machine - and lovely plant size - as soon as they are ripe I'll post a pic
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August 1, 2013 | #62 |
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The harvest this week so far!
This weeks harvest!
I am trying some new-to-me varieties this year I have not grown before. Some success and some...learning experiences. Some good one's for me this year that I will defiantly be planting again next year : Lola F1 - This has been a good one for the greenhouse, containers, and raised beds. Large apple-like nearly perfect round fruit, good taste. Productive plants. A little thick skinned and seedy, but a good all around tomato. Tiffen Mennonite - This one has been a pleasant surprise. A very meaty beefsteak like tomato. Few seeds, sweet with low acidity. Big plus - this was suppose to be an 80 day tomato, but it came in really early for me. I had ripe ones in mid July. Plants are not hugely productive, but better than many other beefsteak types. Good in containers and raised beds. Didn't like the greenhouse too much. Moscovich - this is a Russian heirloom. Nice taste, earlier tomato. Relatively compact plants. Bright orange fruit with green shoulders. Nice tomato taste, a little seedy. Good in containers. Suzanne Cherry F1 - Extremely productive. Good in containers, greenhouse, and ground. Nice large grape like clusters. Larger sized with relatively moderate number of seeds. Not super sweet, but good tomato taste. Crack resistant. Does not drop ripe fruit. A little thick skinned. |
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D.,
Thank YOU for the Roger's seeds! They are lovely tomatoes. Your beans are so good looking! Your picture made me go to the garden earlier today and pick some of mine - Kentucky Wonder and Garafal Oro. They were lovely tasting, I especially love Garafal Oro. Benn, your harvest is so lovely! I love Moskvich (a.k.a. Moskovich) tomato also. It has been a very interesting season so far. I also have many later season varieties ripening at the same time with the early ones, or even earlier. For example, Tsar-Kolokol, Siniy, Costoluto Fiorentino, Mr.Hart Pink ripened before Bloody Butcher and Moravsky Div, same time as SunSugar F1! Strange, but I like it this way Belarus Early (Orange-1) 2013-07-24 (2).jpg Detskiy Smak 2013-07-24 (2).jpg Mr. Hart Pink 2013-07-24 (5).jpg Detskiy Smak 2013-07-24 (4).jpg Super Precoce Marmande 2013-07-23 (2).jpg Tocan 2013-07-24 (2).jpg Svart 2013-07-24 (4).JPG Aztec 2013-07-22 (3).JPG Condine Red 2013-07-21.jpg Lagidnyi 2013-07-21 (2).jpg Knopka 2013-07-22 (2).jpg Kopiye Indeytsa 2013-07-22.JPG Pecherskie 289 - 2013-07-22 (3).JPG Delicious 51 2013-07-22.JPG Sigaretta de Bergamo 2013-07-22.jpg Siniy (QUE AN N) 2013-07-22 (7).jpg Tolli's Sweet Italian 2013-07-22.jpg Triumphant - 2013-07-22.jpg
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Today's tomato salad pick -
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Beautiful looking fruits. Delicious is a melon, is't it?
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Ella,
Yes, Delicious 51 is a melon that is doing amazingly well here this summer. I can't wait to taste it, I hope we'll get a ripe one soon. Ther one on the picture is still in a 'baby' stage, it did not acquire the final shape/skin color yet. Tatiana
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OK, I haven't been looking at this thread b'c I thought it was just for the PNW folks, but I see others are also viewing it and commenting on it as well.
Tania,I do have a few questions about some that you showed pictures of but those will just have to wait until this and thatother stuff is done as well as going back to page one and looking at ALL the posts. Carolyn
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Carolyn, good to see you here! This thread is for PNW folks, but we always have members from other challenging areas to post here too. As you know, our PNW climate cannot be called 'tomato-friendly'
And of course everybody's comments are welcome!
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Tania, just out of curiosity, when is your average last frost date of spring, and the first average frost date of fall? And, on average, how many really warm growing days do you get each year? Also, do you have a greenhouse to extend your season?
Thanks, Don
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Don,
Our average last frost is April 4, but this year we had a hard freeze on April 30. Average first frost is first week of October. However the first frost is irrelevant, as late blight kills our tomatoes much earlier. I am not sure what you mean under 'really warm growing days'. Our highest average daytime temp is 22C (or 72F) in July. (Highest night time temp is 12C (54F)). We have cold frames to grow seedlings. Tatiana
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Tania, I am new to bagging blossoms and could use some instruction from a pro.
Do you make your own bags, and when exactly do you bag the blossoms, what stage of blossom maturity? The more detailed the better, as I am very anal retentive. Thank you, Marsha |
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Marsha, I am sorry, I cannot give you a detailed answer to your question, as we do not bag blossoms. It is not practical to do on our scale, and actually not necessary due to very low pollinator activity in our tomato growing area.
Bees have plenty of other flowers to get busy with - we have clover, lophantus, blooming kale, onions, and many flowering herbs close by. I actually have problems with cucumber fruit set because our cuke's GH is behind tomato beds, and it is also gets ignored by the bees up until this time of summer. Still no fruit set on eggplants!
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Marsha,
Can you think about bagging 100,000 blossoms? For some reason I cannot.
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Sweet Cayenne pepper plants are loaded with so many peppers - but nothing ripe yet.
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