More Plants Ready To Be Pulled

Today's harvest includes 61 Matt's Wild Cherry, 7 Husky Cherry Red(2), 6 Snow White, 5 Honkin' Big Black Cherry, 4 SunGold(1), 4 SunSugar, 2 Sweet 100, 2 Vorlon, 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Husky Cherry Red(1), SunGold(2), Cassidy's Folly, Portuguese Neighbor (11 ounces), Large Pink Anna(2), Persimmon and Porkchop for a total of 100 tomatoes.

No real tomato news in the numbers. The Portuguese Neighbor will be the last beefsteak of any size for 2011. It's overripe red on one side and green on the other. I don't know if it is even salvageable.

There are more plants ready to pull. Lime Green Salad, Bloody Butcher and Cassidy's Folly can go. I need to check but I think that was the last tomato for Portuguese Neighbor and it can go as well.

Harvested Over 1900 Matt's Wild Cherry Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 55 Matt's Wild Cherry, 6 Snow White, 5 SunGold(1), 3 Garden Peach, 3 Sweet 100, 2 SunSugar, Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Orange And Green Zebra, Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Husky Cherry Red(1), Coyote (not Coyote), Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), Cassidy's Folly and Green Zebra(1) for a total of 82 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 1900 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (1931)! And yesterday we harvested over 1500 front yard tomatoes for August.

This morning I put tomato fertlizer in all the container plants in the back yard.

Harvested Over 3000 Front Yard Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 68 Matt's Wild Cherry, 13 Husky Cherry Red(2), 9 Husky Cherry Red(1), 9 SunSugar, 7 Garden Peach, 6 SunGold(1), 6 Snow White, 4 Coyote (not Coyote), 3 Cassidy's Folly, 3 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 2 Green Grape, 2 Persimmon, 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Crimson Cushion(2), Pineapple, Sweet 100, Sweet Carneros Pink, Green Doctors Kiwi(2), Husky Gold, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, Patio, Haley's Purple Comet, Green Zebra(1) and Golden Mama for a total of 145 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 3000 tomatoes in the front yard! However, nearly half of them are Matt's Wild Cherry, a very small tomato. Also, we've now harvested over 200 SunGold(1) tomatoes.

The key thing in today's harvest numbers is that no tomato weighs at least 6 ounces. There are only a few beefsteaks left to harvest.

My wife watered the back yard tomatoes.

A Speckled Roman is maturing. 

Harvested Over 5500 Tomatoes For The Year!

Today's harvest includes 57 Matt's Wild Cherry, 16 Snow White, 10 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 Garden Peach, 6 Orange And Green Zebra, 5 Husky Cherry Red(1), 4 SunSugar, 3 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 2 Crimson Cushion (6 ounces), 2 Green Zebra(1), 2 Oaxacan Jewel(2), 2 SunGold(1), 2 Haley's Purple Comet, 2 Large Pink Anna(2), Pineapple (17 ounces), Sweet 100, Cassidy's Folly, Hungarian Heart (10 ounces), Coyote (not Coyote), Large Pink Anna(1), Husky Gold, Jaune Flamme, Aunt Ruby's German Green(1), Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Stupice, Bloody Butcher and Persimmon (11 ounces) for a total of 133 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 5500 tomatoes for the year (5574)! And as of today we've now harvested over 1300 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (1330).

And over the weekend a few milestones were reached. We've harvested over 350 Husky Cherry Red(2) tomatoes and over 600 Snow White tomatoes.

As mentioned previously, the volume is dropping somewhat dramatically...

Harvested Over 1000 Tomatoes For August!

Today's harvest includes 67 Matt's Wild Cherry, 19 Snow White, 7 Garden Peach, 5 Orange And Green Zebra, 5 Husky Cherry Red(2), 5 Haley's Purple Comet, 4 Large Pink Anna(2), 4 Husky Cherry Red(1), 4 Oaxacan Jewel(2), 3 SunSugar, 2 Cassidy's Folly, 2 Coyote (not Coyote), 2 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 2 Green Grape, 2 Green Zebra(1), 2 Golden Mama, 2 SunGold(1), Pineapple (7.5 ounces), Portuguese Neighbor (8 ounces), Southern Night, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, Yellow Brandywine (10.5 ounces), Black Krim(1) (7.5 ounces), Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, Hungarian Heart (8 ounces), Green Doctors Kiwi(2), Sweet Carneros Pink, Large Pink Anna(1), Husky Gold, Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, German Orange Strawberry and Vorlon for a total of 152 tomatoes.

While harvesting I noticed pretty quickly that Kellogg's Breakfast had fallen down. I picked it back up and it seemed okay. I added a stake to Orange And Green Zebra.

We've now harvested over 1000 tomatoes for the month of August (1017). Again, a lot of this is inflated due to the fact I didn't harvest on July 31.

The volume of the tomatoes is dropping pretty dramatically. The pile is getting smaller...

Harvested Over 1000 Matt's Wild Cherry, 500 Snow White Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 71 Matt's Wild Cherry, 31 Snow White, 10 Garden Peach, 10 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 Golden Mama, 6 Haley's Purple Comet, 5 Oaxacan Jewel(2), 5 SunGold(1), 4 Michael Pollan, 4 Crimson Cushion(2), 4 Orange And Green Zebra, 4 Husky Cherry Red(1), 3 SunSugar, 3 Coyote (not Coyote), 3 Sweet Carneros Pink, 3 Green Grape, 3 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 3 Stupice, 3 Green Zebra(1), 2 Kellogg's Breakfast (14 ounces), 2 Cassidy's Folly, 2 Hungarian Heart (11 ounces, 10 ounces), Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, Portuguese Neighbor (7.5 ounces), Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, Southern Night, Australian Giant Oxheart (6 ounces), Yellow Brandywine (9 ounces), Jaune Flamme, Green Doctor's Kiwi(1) (not Green Doctor's Kiwi), Chocolate Stripes(1), Indian Stripe, Persimmon (16 ounces), Mexico and Black Seaman(1) for a total of 201 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 1000 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (1039)! It's pretty easy because the plant is sprawling everywhere and the tomatoes aren't big at all. There's plenty more tomatoes to come but the plant will slow down soon.

We've now harvested over 500 Snow White tomatoes (515)! Snow White is strong enough to have a second wind after this initial harvest flush dies off. We could do 1000 tomatoes on this plant.

There are a couple of good sized tomatoes in this batch -- Persimmon comes to mind. However, the overall harvest weight is clearly dropping.

A Sweet 100 is maturing but this maturing tomato doesn't look like Sweet 100. It looks like another SunGold or SunSugar. I'll keep an eye out for this.

My wife watered the front and back yards over the past couple of days.

Where'd All The Tomatoes Come From?

Today's harvest includes 62 Matt's Wild Cherry, 24 Snow White, 12 Husky Cherry Red(2), 12 Garden Peach, 9 Husky Cherry Red(1), 8 Haley's Purple Comet, 7 Sweet Carneros Pink, 7 Southern Night, 6 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, 6 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 5 Portuguese Neighbor (6 ounces, 11 ounces, 10 ounces), 5 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (10 ounces, 9.5 ounces), 4 Orange And Green Zebra, 4 Jaune Flamme, 4 Coyote (not Coyote), 4 Cassidy's Folly, 4 SunGold(1), 3 German Orange Strawberry, 3 Golden Mama, 3 Green Grape, 3 Porkchop (10 ounces, 7 ounces), 3 Black Krim (9 ounces, 16 ounces), 2 SunSugar, 2 Aunt Ruby's German Green(3) (14 ounces, 12.5 ounces), 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Paul Robeson(2) (9 ounces), Dr. Wyche's Yellow (12 ounces), Kellogg's Breakfast, Australian Giant Oxheart (7.5 ounces), Hungarian Heart (11.5 ounces), Lime Green Salad, Chocolate Stripes(1), Stupice, Vorlon, Neves Azorean Red (13.5 ounces), Green Zebra(1), Bloody Butcher for a total of 217 tomatoes.

Wow, where'd all these tomatoes come from? Snow White had topped out and several plants are "old" after producing a lot of fruit. This morning I kept pulling good sized tomato after good sized tomato after good sized tomato...

My wife has been working her butt off all week preparing various tomato dishes and distributing our harvest. She's taking a day off today from tomatoes.

There's still a lot of Matt's Wild Cherry to harvest...

Harvested Hungarian Heart!

No harvest yesterday.

Today's harvest includes 25 Matt's Wild Cherry, 10 Husky Cherry Red(2), 10 Husky Cherry Red(1), 8 Haley's Purple Comet, 8 Snow White, 8 Golden Mama, 6 SunGold(1), 4 Bloody Butcher, 4 Orange And Green Zebra, 4 Sweet Carneros Pink, 4 Garden Peach, 3 Southern Night, 3 Stupice, 3 SunSugar, 3 Porkchop (7 ounces), 3 Black Krim(1), 2 Black Seaman(2), 2 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (8 ounces), 2 German Orange Strawberry (6 ounces, 7.5 ounces), 2 Kellogg's Breakfast, 2 Jaune Flamme, Hungarian Heart (new), Green Doctors Kiwi(1) (not Green Doctor's Kiwi), Green Doctor's Kiwi(2), Big Zebra (7 ounces), Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Chocolate Stripes(1), Yellow Brandywine (7.5 ounces), Paul Robeson(2), Portuguese Neighbor (11.5 ounces), Cassidy's Folly, Big White Pink Stripe (8 ounces), Persimmon (15.5 ounces) and Vorlon for a total of 131 tomatoes.

When you miss a day of harvest you would think that the next day would be near double the total amount. In practice, that's not the case. When you harvest on a daily basis, the water brought up by the roots is then placed to the other maturing tomatoes. If you miss a day, the already mature tomatoes get some of that water and the near mature tomatoes don't mature as rapidly.

The harvested Hungarian Heart has a bit of a deformity and that's why it matured quicker. There are some good large tomatoes growing on this plant coming soon.
My wife pulled five plants last night -- Aunt Ruby's German Green(2), Black And Brown Boar, Jaune Coeur de Pigeon and the two volunteers.

The Tide Is Coming In!

Today's harvest includes 25 Husky Cherry Red(2), 24 Matt's Wild Cherry, 19 SunSugar, 8 Garden Peach, 7 Husky Cherry Red(1), 7 Bloody Butcher, 6 SunGold(1), 6 Sweet Carneros Pink, 6 Black Krim(2), 5 Vorlon (7 ounces, 8 ounces, 7 ounces, 6 ounces, 9.5 ounces), 5 Jaune Flamme, 5 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 5 Snow White, 4 Haley's Purple Comet, 4 Southern Night (6 ounces), 4 Black And Brown Boar, 3 Golden Mama, 3 Orange And Green Zebra, 3 Stupice, 3 Black Krim(1) (7 ounces), 3 Crimson Cushion (18.5 ounces, 19.5 ounces, 7 ounces), 3 Cassidy's Folly, 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (11.5 ounces), 2 Kellogg's Breakfast (7 ounces, 6 ounces), 2 Indian Stripe, Porkchop (6.5 ounces), Patio, Lime Green Salad, Green Grape, Black Seaman(2), Dr. Wyche's Yellow (7 ounces) and Portuguese Neighbor (19.5 ounces) for a total of 171 tomatoes.

The tide is coming in! Today's total is nearly 100 more tomatoes than last Thursday's harvest, nearly double Friday's harvest. Remarkable!

Again, we have some beautiful, large tomatoes in today's batch. Crimson Cushion and Portuguese Neighbor lead the way.

I'm surprised at how productive Husky Cherry Red(2) has been!

Over the past couple of days we have been cleaning out our second freezer. It was defrosted and cleaned out over the weekend, then placed in a more convenient location within our garage. And just in time! Also we've been doing many small and not so small upgrades to our house.

We've been giving away a fair amount of our tomatoes but now there are simply too many to give away. My wife is roasting some of today's harvest as I type this.

We now know which color the Brandywine plant will be. It will be a Yellow Brandywine. Also, a large Persimmon has started to mature.

Harvested Crimson Cushion(2) and Husky Gold!

Today's harvest includes 29 Matt's Wild Cherry, 19 SunSugar, 13 Husky Cherry Red(2), 8 SunGold(1), 7 Golden Mama, 5 Stupice, 5 Jaune Flamme, 5 Sweet Carneros Pink, 4 Haley's Purple Comet, 4 Garden Peach, 3 Bloody Butcher, 3 Husky Cherry Red(1), 2 Green Zebra(1), 2 Vorlon (6 ounces), 2 Green Zebra(2), 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (13 ounces, 11.5 ounces) 2 Green Grape, 2 Cassidy's Folly, 2 Orange and Green Zebra, Crimson Cushion (17.5 ounces) (new), Husky Gold (new), Southern Night, Portuguese Neighbor (12 ounces), Kellogg's Breakfast, Jaune Coeur de Pigeon, Black Seaman(2), Paul Robeson(2) (10 ounces), Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red (8 ounces) and Lime Green Salad for a total of 131 tomatoes.

The harvested Crimson Cushion is a beautiful tomato.

Last night we tried Australian Giant Oxheart, Porkchop and Vorlon. All three were winners. I wasn't in love with Porkchop, though I liked it a lot. The other two taste testers loved it.

My wife informs me that we've given Golden Mama a bum rap. She had one earlier today that was more golden than yellow and it was delicious!

Harvested Six New Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 8 SunSugar, 4 Husky Cherry Red(2), 4 Stupice, 2 Black Krim(1) (6 ounces) (new), 2 Orange and Green Zebra (new), 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (9 ounces) (new), 2 Cassidy's Folly (new), 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Black And Brown Boar, 2 Creme Brulee, 2 Green Grape, 2 SunGold(1), Big Zebra (new), Patio (new), Aunt Ruby's German Green(2) (new), Haley's Purple Comet, Bloody Butcher, Matt's Wild Cherry, Large Pink Anna(2), Lime Green Salad, Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Jaune Flamme and Paul Robeson(2) (13 ounces) for a total of 45 tomatoes.

We harvested six new tomatoes today! I forgot to mention that Orange And Green Zebra and Big Zebra were maturing. Patio was mentioned earlier but the tomato was too bad to count. Black Krim(1) and Dr. Wyche's Yellow were surprises.

The Paul Robeson(2) tomato looks beautiful!

My wife will check some of the tomato plants with leaf curl damage and poor growth and may pull some tomato plants today or tomorrow.

Lots of Rocks and Asphalt and Planted Tomatoes In The Backyard

On Friday my wife replaced Cherokee Green with Dr. Wyche's Yellow. She also planted Michael Pollan (the tomato ;)) in a pot.

In the evening I turned an area east of the tomatoes planted near the lemon tree.

Saturday was a big planting day for both of us. Well, I dug and my wife planted.

I didn't realize how cold it had gotten over the past few nights. Friday morning it got down to 34.4 degrees and the high was only 53.5 degrees. The low on Saturday morning was 33.0 degrees and the high was only 58.1 degrees.

A couple of the tomatoes in the back yard cut out looked like they were struggling. The struggling ones were ones grown from seed. My wife replaced Black Krim with Brandywine and swapped the Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe with another of our seedlings grown from seed.

I had left a hole for a tomato a few days ago. My wife planted Sweet Carneros Pink in this hole either yesterday or the day before.

Saturday morning I dug holes in the area I had prepared the night before. I dug holes for and my wife planted Black Seaman, Cassidy's Folly and Black Krim. This area had rocks and asphalt and digging the holes was a long, tiring and laborious process.

I turned over the dirt in the south garden in the back yard. I was exhausted from digging holes in the morning and pulling out bits of rock and asphalt. But I did get it turned and in the afternoon my wife planted Big Zebra, Husky Gold and Lime Green Salad tomatoes along with squash and zucchini.

After a shower and lunch I relaxed for a few hours, then got back to it in the afternoon. The remaining area to dig is in the eastern portion of our back yard, an area rich with rocks and pieces of asphalt. Digging holes was slower and harder than before. 
 
I made four more holes, going deeper than I ever had. The last hole probably took 45 minutes to prepare and it wasn't ready – I was still hitting rocks and asphalt that I couldn't dig out about two feet down.

In the other three holes my wife planted Large Pink Anna, Chocolate Stripes(1) and Crimson Cushion(1). 
 
In the patio area in large black pots we have Aunt Ruby's German Green(1), Aunt Ruby's German Green(2), Chocolate Stripes(2), Crimson Cushion(2), Large Pink Anna, Michael Pollan (as mentioned previously), Green Doctor's Kiwi(2), Green Grape and Patio.

Aunt Ruby's German Green, Chocolate Stripes and Crimson Cushion were grown from seed. Multiple seedlings were planted in to these large black pots. Many of them flourished in this environment. My wife separated out these seedlings and we planted three of them into the ground as noted. 
 
This morning I spent an additional 45 minutes working on the large chunks of asphalt and rock that I couldn't get out the night before. I could pulverize some of the asphalt with a hammer but I really couldn't get it out. I planted Australian Giant Oxheart in this hole.

In the evening I planted a grafted SunSugar in a large pot (called the “Mighty Mato”) and Hungarian Heart in another rock and asphalt filled hole.