August 15, 2011 | #61 |
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Carmen's
This plant just put out a lot of fat Roma shaped tomatoes all at once. These are the two largest at 25.9 and 12.8 oz.
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August 15, 2011 | #62 |
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Mayo's Delight
Just picked this one today- it's the first one from this plant which was planted in mid-June. It weighs 33.1 oz.
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August 16, 2011 | #63 | |
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This is definitely helpful. I usually look at opinions of several people to see if there a tomatoes that stand out as really good or not so good. In any event, I will try a tomato if most people say it isn't very good if it has enough appeal to me. I just tasted my first Blue Ridge Mountain the past couple of days. I thought it was pretty good, but I'll have to see how the rest of them taste. With the crazy weather we have had this year, it is really difficult to determine what impact the weather has had on the taste of the tomatoes. |
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August 16, 2011 | #64 |
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Kath,
What an awesome harvest you are having! Thank you for posting the pictures and for your reviews, I enjoyed reading this thread. Tania
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August 16, 2011 | #66 | |
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Even though this is only my second year of growing lots of varieties, I'm seeing how the descriptions and opinions of others can be very different from your own experience. Getting lots of opinions can help, but so many factors can influence the taste of a tomato and your own perception of it. The weather here lately has been good for promoting foliage disease but bad for ripening fruits. I'm not sure that I'll be getting a very accurate impression of the real potential of the later planted and later ripening varieties as a result. Tomatoes are splitting badly and the foliage is a mess. My only hope is that things dry up a bit so I can prune and spray and that new foliage is able to keep some of the plants alive into late summer and fall. Hope you find some that you like enough to bring back for another try. |
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August 16, 2011 | #67 | |
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I'm glad you enjoyed looking- and agree that I've really had a great harvest so far, but it looks like things might wind down pretty quickly this year. With guests keeping me out of the garden most of the last week and then getting hit with lots of rain, things aren't looking too good in the tomato patch. I've managed to save seed from lots of varieties so far, though- let me know if there are any that you'd like to try next year in addition to the ones on your list. Kath |
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August 16, 2011 | #68 |
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Guess I'd still like to taste the real Brandysweet Plum- this one hasn't been all that sweet and it had a rather thick and distinctly bitter tasting skin. It also developed those annoying white spots in the outer walls of the fruits very early in the season.
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August 17, 2011 | #69 |
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So these seemed ripe enough for it to be their "picture day" and I'm really procrastinating about beginning the sauce making project that really must happen today. Most of these are from the late planting that I did on 6/13.
So in the first pic, top row: Olena Ukrainian (26.2 oz), Lennie & Gracie's Kentucky Heirloom, Angelo's Red (19.9 oz) Middle: Mary Reynolds, Gildo Pietroboni (20.4 oz), Giant Sicilian Paste Bottom: Val's Red Nibbler, Tennessee Persimmon Second pic, top: Mazarini (26.8 oz), Novikov's Giant, Linnie's Oxheart (17.6 oz) Bottom: Rose de Eauze, Orange Bull's Heart, Gus' Heart |
August 17, 2011 | #70 |
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I love the large off shaped tomatoes, nice pics
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August 17, 2011 | #71 |
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So, Kathy - how about a picture of your dining room table or wherever you're collecting the mother lode? I assume you'll need a wide-angle lens.
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I picked all the rows clean on Monday in the torrential downpour and spent today putting all the older, riper hearts and plum types through the food mill. Didn't even get to can them yet. It got up to 92 degrees today, so I'll check and see if any need to be picked tomorrow. At this point, I only keep the ones we haven't tasted, photographed or decided on yet or the ones I'm using for canning/drying. The others are distributed asap. But there aren't nearly as many as there were one to two weeks ago. Our nights are a lot cooler now and many of the plants that were set out in May don't have much left on them- every one of them has at least one disease, so I'm going to mark the plants I'd like pulled out tomorrow as DH has volunteered to get rid of them for me. The June planted varieties are beginning to ripen now but I'm not sure how long they'll last because they're disease ridden, too. Kath |
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August 18, 2011 | #73 |
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Do you think the single-vine training has contributed to the big fruit you've gotten on some varieties? My upper limit seems to be about 24 oz.on completely unpruned vines. Just picked FH Monster - a big yellow on this plant - and look forward to tasting today.
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The FH Monster yellow version that I have only produced a couple fruits- both huge. The taste was just ok for me & a thumbs down for DH. Let me know what you think. Kath |
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August 18, 2011 | #75 |
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So here's a pic of the kitchen and porch tables AFTER yesterday's all day marathon with a Victorio food mill. Fruits are looking cracked and ugly and there's lots more rain in our immediate future. As soon as it's dry enough, we'll be pulling lots of icky plants.
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