Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Reached 3000 Harvested Tomatoes For August!


Today's harvest includes 16 Snow White(1), 15 back yard Husky Cherry Red, 8 Black Cherry, 5 Sweet 100, 4 Red Grape, 3 Jaune Flamme, 3 Jaune Coeur de Pigeon, 3 Snow White(2), 3 front yard Husky Cherry Red, 2 Garden Peach(2), 2 White Zebra (one 6 ounces), 2 White Currant, 2 Italian Ice, a front yard Green Grape, Dr. Wyche's Yellow (8 ounces), Babywine, a back yard Speckled Roman (with end rot), Turkish Striped Monastery, Orange Blossom, Yellow Perfection, Tiger Paw, Japanese Black Trifele (8 ounces) and Paul Robeson for a total of 78 tomatoes.

We've reached over 3000 harvested tomatoes for the month (3051)! It looks like we'll be right on target (perhaps a tad short) for the updated estimate of 3500 harvested tomatoes for the month.

The front yard Mexico is ready to be pulled and Berkeley Tie Dye is getting close to being pulled out of the ground.

It is still tough to harvest the front yard Husky Cherry Red tomatoes. Babywine is completely draped over the plant. There are areas on the north side of the Husky Cherry Red plant that I simply cannot reach.

Also, the weather has warmed up considerably. Yesterday's high was 98 degrees, which is hot enough to sterilize the pollen in the recent blooms. This isn't unusual weather by any stretch of the imagination – after all we're still in summer – but we're due for a significant drop in the September harvest totals.


No comments: