And today's harvest includes 34 Red Currant, 11 Red Grape, 11 Sweet Olive, 7 White Currant, 6 Yellow Perfection, 5 back yard Garden Peach, 5 front yard Paul Robeson, 3 Jeff Davis, 3 Black Cherry, 3 back yard Paul Robeson, 3 Black Krim (10.5 ounces, 10 ounces), 2 Jaune Coeur de Pigeon, 2 Snow White, 2 Husky Gold, 2 Tiger Paw, 2 SunSugar, 2 Italian Ice, 2 back yard Speckled Roman (more blossom end rot), a front yard Garden Peach, Sweet 100, Plum Tigris, Amazon Chocolate (10.5 ounces), Turkish Striped Monastery, Patio, Cuor de Bue (New! 6 ounces), Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe (New! 8.5 ounces), Mexico (new) and a front yard Speckled Roman (new) for a total of 115 tomatoes.
My wife watered most of the front yard tomatoes yesterday.
Black Krim was leaning again this morning (the watering loosened the stake) so I hammered in another stake for it.
Last night my wife made hamburgers for dinner. For the tomatoes she used Paul Robeson that were picked the day before from the back yard. We don't have ketchup in the house so I was expecting these to be a bit on the dry side. I couldn't have been more wrong. The back yard Paul Robeson tomatoes are fantastic!! It's hard to imagine a better tomato. It's meals like this that remind you why one spends so much time working the soil. Amazing tomatoes.
Three more plants have maturing tomatoes: German Orange Strawberry appears to be the farthest along while Black From Tula and Oaxacan Jewel have a tomato that is just starting to change color.
It's good to see a Black Cherry harvest again! The three that were harvested today were bigger and had a more vibrant color than the previous ones.
Whether it's the dozens of home grown tomatoes I'm eating or the fact I'm trying to cut down on the caffeine intake, I definitely feel healthier and alert for longer periods now versus a few months ago.
Snow White is covering the front yard Green Grape like a mother hen covering her chicks. There's no real room for Green Grape to grow but then again Snow White is providing lots of shade for this plant.
The four new tomatoes were harvested last night and included in today's totals. I took my wife to all the new tomatoes and consulted with her as to whether or not they're ready for harvest. We picked them all. We put together about 10 new tomatoes picked over the last few days and took pictures. I'll put them up in the near future.
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