A Day Of Seconds

Isn't every day a day of seconds?

Today's harvest includes 33 Red Currant, 33 Snow White, 24 Yellow Perfection, 18 Black Cherry, 12 White Currant, 10 Jaune Coeur de Pigeon, 6 back yard Green Grape, 6 Japanese Black Trifele (7.5 ounces, 11.5 ounces, 6 ounces), 6 front yard Garden Peach, 6 front yard Husky Cherry Red, 5 Babywine, 5 Tiger Paw, 5 Turkish Striped Monastery, 4 Sweet Olive, 4 Pierce's Pride (13 ounces, 7 ounces, 8 ounces, 7 ounces), 4 back yard Garden Peach(1), 4 back yard Garden Peach(2), 4 Mong, 4 front yard Speckled Roman (6 ounces, 6 ounces), 3 Berkeley Tie Dye (12.5 ounces, 6.5 ounces, 6 ounces), 3 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (12 ounces, 12 ounces, 9 ounces), 2 back yard Husky Cherry Red, 2 Black From Tula (8 ounces, 10 ounces), 2 Red Grape, 2 Aunt Ruby's German Green, 2 Vintage Wine, 2 Silvery Fir Tree, 2 Oaxacan Jewel(1) (6 ounces, 7 ounces), 2 Oaxacan Jewel(2), SunSugar, Amazon Chocolate (8 ounces), a back yard Paul Robeson, Plum Tigris, Cuor de Bue, Super Snow White and a front yard Mexico for a total of 222 tomatoes.

Today was our second largest total harvest number for 2009 (222 tomatoes), the second largest total for the front yard (114 tomatoes) and the second largest for the back yard (108 tomatoes).

Last night the Manchester Terrier got to a ripe Turkish Striped Monastery. However, this is the second time he's grabbed a tomato only after a late dinner. He was fed dinner after 10 PM and may have simply been hungry. It's possible that this dog actually has gotten the idea to leave them alone.

Also last night we tried Big Yellow Zebra. I thought it was overripe (we tried the first one) but my wife didn't like it at all. She even mentioned how much she didn't like it at tonight's dinner. At the time I told her to keep an open mind because this tomato was overripe. She understood.

Today I was the tomato Santa Claus. I brought bags of tomatoes for my mechanic, my brother and his wife and my mother. Everybody was happy to get them.

Also I visited my mother and father in law, took their two dogs and brought back their Green Zebras to sample. Their best harvest day was yesterday as well, harvesting 33 tomatoes. The mother in law does the harvesting and she lined them up for her husband to see.

We took more pictures of the 27.5 ounce Mexico plant. I'll post them later when I have more time.