Today's bountiful harvest includes 36 Red Currant, 21 White Currant, 21 Snow White, 16 Yellow Perfection, 14 Black Cherry, 9 back yard Green Grape, 8 back yard Garden Peach(1), 7 Tiger Paw, 6 Red Grape, 5 Italian Ice, 5 Jaune Coeur de Pigeon, 4 Black Krim (one 7. 5 ounces), 4 Babywine, 3 Sweet Olive, 3 Sweet 100, 3 Turkish Striped Monastery, 2 back yard Garden Peach(2), 2 Japanese Black Trifele (one 6 ounces), 2 back yard Paul Robeson, 2 SunSugar, 2 Mong (one 8 ounces), 2 back yard Speckled Roman, 2 front yard Garden Peach, 2 Oaxacan Jewel(2), 2 Aunt Ruby's German Green (one 8 ounces), 2 Super Snow White (New!), Silvery Fir Tree, Plum Tigris, Amazon Chocolate (12.5 ounces), German Orange Strawberry (7 ounces), Cuor de Bue, a front yard Husky Cherry Red, a back yard Husky Cherry Red and a front yard Speckled Roman for a total of 193 tomatoes from 34 different tomato plants!
Today was our largest harvest total of the year (193), largest front yard total (80) and largest back yard total (113). We've now harvested over 2000 tomatoes for the month of July.
If we continue at this pace for the rest of the month, we will hit the estimate of 4000 harvested tomatoes.
So much for our totals leveling off.
I "harvested" a big back yard Mexico but it had too much rot so I discarded it and didn't count it.
Actually, the container plants mentioned are leveling off. But the other tomato plants that were still reaching their peak harvest were pushed forward by the hot weather over the last couple days. Yesterday it got up to 104 at Pierce College, about a mile away from us. And that's why plants like Black Cherry, Snow White, (the container plant) White Currant and Green Grape had a lot of tomatoes suddenly become ripe.
My wife made a lot of tomato sauce last night. She even made a green sauce from all the Aunt Ruby's German Green tomatoes. We're out of room in our freezer. We'll be bringing some frozen tomato sauce to store in the freezer of our “seed lady”.
2 comments:
Congrats on your amazing bounty!! I have a few questions I'm hoping you might be able to answer:
1) Do you find it common for your container tomatoes to start leveling off later in the season?
2) What exactly does an exhausted tomato look like?
3) Do you plant tomatoes in late summer for fall/winter harvest?
Thanks in advance! Your tomatoes are an inspiration.
>Do you find it common for your container tomatoes to start leveling off later in the season?<
I find it common for all tomatoes to start leveling off later in the season. Getting a "second wind" isn't uncommon.
>What exactly does an exhausted tomato look like?< It's not the tomato, it's the plant that will look exhausted. The fruit produced by an exhausted plant is frequently uneven in color and tone.
>Do you plant tomatoes in late summer for fall/winter harvest?<
We've done it a couple of times but both times a frost in late December or early January killed them off for us. Your experience could be different depending on where you grow.
>Your tomatoes are an inspiration.<
Thank YOU so much!
Bill
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