Harvested Over 5000 Back Yard Tomatoes This Year!

Before today's harvest I picked off a small caterpillar on Babywine, within an inch or two from where the last one was spotted.

Today's harvest includes 13 Snow White(2), 8 White Currant, 5 Black Cherry, 3 Red Grape, 2 Snow White(2), 2 Babywine, 2 Paul Robeson, 2 Yellow Perfection, Silvery Fir Tree, Vintage Wine, a front yard Husky Cherry Red, Italian Ice, Tiger Paw, Japanese Black Trifele, Cuor de Bue and Patio Princess for a total of 45 tomatoes.

It got up to 102.8 degrees at Pierce College yesterday, a mile from where we live. I think we have another heat wave harvest bump occurring. There just isn't that many tomatoes to harvest!

We've reached over 5000 harvested tomatoes in the back yard (5002)! Putting this in perspective, this year's back yard harvest total and front yard harvest total to date (4681) beat the total 2008 tomato harvest of 4503 tomatoes. We've doubled last year's harvest and we have a ways to go.

A little addition will show we've harvested 9683 tomatoes in 2009. This may be the kiss of death but I think we'll make 10,000 tomatoes this year. Even if the harvest drops significantly – which I expect to happen after this heat wave – we'll have enough to get us to five figures.

We've now harvested over 400 White Currant tomatoes (402)!