Today's harvest includes 9 Yellow Perfection, 8 Black Cherry, 7 Babywine, 5 Paul Robeson, 3 White Currant, 3 Japanese Black Trifele, 3 back yard Husky Cherry Red, 2 Vintage Wine, 2 Snow White(1), 2 Snow White(2), 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (one 7 ounces), 2 Oaxcan Jewel(1), 2 Jaune Coeur de Pigeon, 2 Amazon Chocolate, 2 Garden Peach(2), German Orange Strawberry, Tiger Paw, Sweet 100 and Oaxacan Jewel(2) for a total of 58 tomatoes.
The weather was cooler yesterday (and today) and, coincidentally or not, the harvest numbers dropped. The totals are coming back in to the range experienced late last month.
We've reached 300 harvested tomatoes for Snow White(2)! The Snow White(2) is one of our strongest plants, a late bloomer (literally), and it wouldn't surprise me to end up with over 400 tomatoes by the time the harvest is over.
Japanese Black Trifele has now reached over 100 harvested tomatoes (101). Jaune Coeur de Pigeon has reached 350 harvested tomatoes.
Before I get into what my wife and I were doing on a Sunday afternoon, I'll need to set the stage.
In June of 2008 there was an article in the Los Angeles Times about how to make mulch from hay. I thought it was something terrific and almost perfect for what we were doing. We saved the newspaper article but never got around to implementing it for this season (The article can be found here.)
Fast forward to April of this year. My wife and I took a tour of the Los Angeles Times building – the blog post can be found here – and the blog post indicates, this guy wanted to get in touch with me. It turned out that the lady who was our tour guide through the Los Angeles Times building (Lisa Boone) also wrote the article.
It took months to get the email address from Lisa – I guess she thought she had sent it (perhaps she did but got the email address wrong and I never saw it) but after a couple of tries on my part I did get the email contact.
So we corresponded and my wife and I came by to visit yesterday afternoon.
What a blast! Pat and his girlfriend couldn't have been more gracious hosts. We talked and talked and walked through their terraced garden. They talked about their No-Dig vegetable garden and showed us around while my wife took notes on her iPhone. I discussed techniques we use when planting and growing tomatoes...and the hours flew by.
Later on inside they tried some of the tomatoes we brought. They were cutting up the tomatoes when I stated “These tomatoes are good but they're not quite as good as earlier in the year...” By that time they were sampling them and loving the taste of these tomatoes. Man, have I become such the tomato snob.
We're going to keep in touch, that's for sure!
Then we paid a visit to our “seed lady” and spent a few pleasant hours with her.
Now I'm looking forward to preparing our soil for next year!
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