Wednesday's harvest includes 9 Garden Peach, 8 Yellow Perfection, 8 Black Cherry, 6 Blue Beauty, 5 Green Grape, 5 Jaune Flamme, 4 Pineapple, 4 Isis Candy, 4 Jersey Giant, 3 Shah/Mikado, 3 Piement, 3 Indigo Rose, 3 Husky Cherry Red, 2 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red(2) (new), 2 SunGold(2), 2 Kellogg's Breakfast (8 ounces), 2 "Something Orange" (20 ounces, 14 ounces), 2 Husky Red(1), 2 Supersweet 100, 2 Speckled Roman(2), 2 Speckled Roman(1), Hungarian Heart, Porkchop, Paul Robeson, Missouri Pink Love Apple, SunGold(1), Grande (11 ounces), Snow White, Juliet and Husky Red(2) for a total of 90 tomatoes.
This will in all probability be our high harvest day (90 tomatoes). That's...not very high. However, the "Something Orange" tomatoes look great and the Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red(2) looks pretty good for being in the raised bed.
I believe most of these tomatoes were brought down to my in-law's residence by my wife.
Thursday's harvest includes 6 Yellow Perfection, 5 Jersey Giant, 5 Black Cherry, 4 Aunt Ruby's German Green (8 ounces, 6 ounces, new), 4 Green Grape, 4 Garden Peach, 4 Indigo Rose, 4 Blue Beauty, 2 Kellogg's Breakfast, 2 Jaune Flamme, 2 Pineapple, 2 Supersweet 100, 2 Speckled Roman(2), 2 Porkchop, 2 Shah/Mikado, 2 Paul Robeson (6 ounces), 2 Amos Coli (7 ounces), 2 Isis Candy, 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Husky Cherry Red, Crynkovic, Ananas Noire, "Something Orange" (14.5 ounces), Cuor de Bue (10 ounces), Juliet and Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red(2) for a total of 65 tomatoes.
The Aunt Ruby's German Green look quite good. Most of the tomatoes have a very light red blush to go along with the darker green mature color.
Friday's harvest includes 9 Black Cherry, 7 Jersey Giant, 4 Supersweet 100, 4 Yellow Perfection, 3 SunGold(1), 3 Isis Candy, 3 Green Grape, 3 Shah/Mikado, 2 Juliet, 2 Porkchop, 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow, 2 Paul Robeson, 2 Jaune Flamme, 2 Garden Peach, Amos Coli, Indigo Rose, Husky Cherry Red, Pineapple, SunGold(2), Blue Beauty, Pineapple Pig, Snow White, Ananas Noire, "Something Orange" (12 ounces), Sweet 100 and Husky Red(1) for a total of 60 tomatoes.
Saturday's harvest includes 7 Snow White, 5 Black Cherry, 5 Sweet 100, 5 Shah/Mikado, 4 Garden Peach, 3 Supersweet 100, 3 Porkchop, 2 Husky Cherry Red, 2 Cuor de Bue (6 ounces), 2 SunGold(1), 2 Jaune Flamme, 2 Blue Beauty, 2 Pineapple Pig (6 ounces), 2 Isis Candy, 2 Garden Peach, Amos Coli, Piement, Japanese Black Trifele, Kellogg's Breakfast (6 ounces), Pineapple, Dr. Wyche's Yellow (7 ounces), Aunt Ruby's German Green (13 ounces), Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red(2) (6.5 ounces) and Husky Red(2) for a total of 54 tomatoes.
I went down to Orange County in the morning. I brought two days harvest of tomatoes. I gave a bag to a barista in Tarzana, two bags of tomatoes to my mechanic in Westminster, and two bags of tomatoes to my mother. Later on I visited my in-laws. My wife and I got back late in separate cars.
Sunday's harvest includes 9 Sweet 100, 8 Black Cherry, 6 Blue Beauty, 5 Snow White, 5 Garden Peach, 5 Jaune Flamme, 4 Rosella Purple (8 ounces, new), 4 Shah/Mikado, 3 Indigo Rose, 3 Husky Cherry Red, 3 Pineapple, 2 Amos Coli (6.5 ounces, 6 ounces), 2 Jersey Giant, 2 Speckled Roman(2), 2 Pineapple Pig (6 ounces), 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (9 ounces, 12 ounces), 2 Isis Candy, 2 Yellow Perfection, Hungarian Heart, Vorlon, Speckled Roman(1), Black and Brown Boar, SunGold(1), Japanese Black Trifele, Cuor de Bue, Juliet and Supersweet 100 for a total of 78 tomatoes.
"Rosella Purple" is another Aunt Ruby's German Green. First off, it's not purple, it's green. We tried it for dinner. It was delicious but it was Aunt Ruby's German Green. I'll need to adjust the spreadsheet at some point...
Earlier we had tried Paul Robeson and it was actually pretty good. The skin was a bit tough but otherwise was just fine.
Today's harvest includes 14 Snow White, 4 Husky Cherry Red, 4 Pineapple, 4 Black Cherry, 4 Jaune Flamme, 3 Indigo Rose, 3 Yellow Perfection, 3 Green Grape, 3 Blue Beauty, 2 Porkchop, 2 Amos Coli, 2 Supersweet 100, 2 Isis Candy, 2 Piement, 2 Jersey Giant, 2 Aunt Ruby's German Green (6 ounces, 6 ounces), 2 SunGold(2), 2 Shah/Mikado, Paul Robeson, Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Garden Peach and Husky Red(2) for a total of 64 tomatoes.
My wife roasted today's tomatoes for tonight's dinner. They were terrific with the pasta.
During this period we harvested over 2000 tomatoes for the year (now we stand at 2157) and over 1000 harvested tomatoes in the back yard for July (now stands at 1093).
I know updates have been spotty but we've been busy with life...
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Monday, July 15, 2013
Harvested Five New Tomatoes; Pineapple Pig Was Extraordinary!
Saturday's harvest includes 15 Black Cherry, 10 Sweet 100, 9 Supersweet 100, 5 Garden Peach, 5 Isis Candy, 4 Indigo Rose, 4 Husky Cherry Red, 4 Juliet, 2 Crynkovic (6 ounces, new), 2 Husky Red(1), 2 Yellow Perfection, 2 Hungarian Heart, 2 Berkeley Tie Dye, 2 Snow White, 2 Speckled Roman(1), 2 Jaune Flamme, Pineapple Pig (14 ounces, new), SunGold(1) (new), Green Grape (new), Vorlon, Black Krim (7 ounces), Paul Robeson, Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red(1), Dr. Wyche's Yellow (9 ounces), German Orange Strawberry, Jersey Giant, Missouri Pink Love Apple, Black and Brown Boar, Speckled Roman(2) and Anana's Noire (7 ounces) for a total of 86 tomatoes.
In the morning the gardeners pulled out six dead tomato plants. They were Pierce's Pride, Brad's Black Heart, Black Seaman, Nyaguos, Green Zebra and Michael Pollan. There were about 50 Michael Pollan tomato plants littered on the ground in two spots within the back yard. It's really sad to see Michael Pollan go away because the tomatoes were meaty and tasty.
But we did harvest four new tomatoes today. By far the most spectacular was the beautiful 14 ounce Pineapple Pig tomato. Here's an image of that tomato.
In the afternoon my wife, her parents and I went to a restaurant. We brought along three tomatoes to eat with our meal: Piement, Green Grape and Pineapple Pig. We tried them in that order. Again, Piement had an amazing texture. My wife declared that it was the best tasting tomato skin she's ever tasted, and I can understand that sentiment. Especially so if I want to remain married. In all seriousness I'd have to agree with her about the skin of this tomato.
Green Grape tasted good as usual, though it's hard to divide up such a small tomato into four parts. I think it may have been only cut up in three parts.
Pineapple Pig tasted as good as it looks. Inside it truly looked like a pineapple. It was entirely yellow inside with a slight pink blush in one spot. The tomato tasted as good as it looked. I think we had that 14 ounce tomato eaten among the four of us in about 90 seconds. It was truly delicious.
I now know I harvested last year's Pineapple Pig a little early. I would harvest it when it had a mostly yellow color among green striping. Now I know to wait until the green color is pretty much completely gone. Wow, it was a real pleasure to eat part of this tomato!
Afterward my in-laws left with a bunch of our tomatoes.
Sunday's harvest includes 17 Black Cherry, 10 Green Grape, 9 Sweet 100, 5 Supersweet 100, 5 Garden Peach, 3 Juliet, 3 Husky Cherry Red, 3 Blue Beauty, 2 Berkeley Tie Dye, 2 Speckled Roman(1), 2 Speckled Roman(2) (6 ounces), 2 Snow White, Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red(1), Stupice, Hungarian Heart, Yellow Perfection, Paul Robeson, Missouri Pink Love Apple, Black and Brown Boar, Jaune Flamme, German Orange Strawberry (9 ounces), Japanese Black Trifele, Isis Candy and Husky Red(1) for a total of 75 tomatoes.
Sunday was the first (annual?) Popsiclelooza held in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. This was a neighborhood event and roughly 40 - 50 people attended. The popsicles were made by my wife's maid of honor. Everyone had a good time. We brought more tomatoes to give away.
Today's harvest includes 9 Shah/Mikado, 9 Sweet 100, 7 Black Cherry, 6 Snow White, 5 Juliet, 4 Blue Beauty, 4 Green Grape, 3 Supersweet 100, 3 Berkeley Tie Dye, 3 Jaune Flamme, 2 Piement (6 ounces), 2 Indigo Rose, 2 Isis Candy, 2 Husky Cherry Red, 2 Stupice, 2 Jersey Giant, 2 Garden Peach, Amos Coli (new), Vorlon, Speckled Roman(1), Dr. Wyche's Yellow (7 ounces), Missouri Pink Love Apple, Crynkovic and Speckled Roman(2) for a total of 74 tomatoes.
Here's a troubling sign: The harvest numbers are dropping and some of the producing tomato plants look spent. We may be on a pace for some terrible numbers this year.
Amos Coli looks like a cross between Speckled Roman (hand grenade shape) and Piement (color).
In the morning the gardeners pulled out six dead tomato plants. They were Pierce's Pride, Brad's Black Heart, Black Seaman, Nyaguos, Green Zebra and Michael Pollan. There were about 50 Michael Pollan tomato plants littered on the ground in two spots within the back yard. It's really sad to see Michael Pollan go away because the tomatoes were meaty and tasty.
But we did harvest four new tomatoes today. By far the most spectacular was the beautiful 14 ounce Pineapple Pig tomato. Here's an image of that tomato.
In the afternoon my wife, her parents and I went to a restaurant. We brought along three tomatoes to eat with our meal: Piement, Green Grape and Pineapple Pig. We tried them in that order. Again, Piement had an amazing texture. My wife declared that it was the best tasting tomato skin she's ever tasted, and I can understand that sentiment. Especially so if I want to remain married. In all seriousness I'd have to agree with her about the skin of this tomato.
Green Grape tasted good as usual, though it's hard to divide up such a small tomato into four parts. I think it may have been only cut up in three parts.
Pineapple Pig tasted as good as it looks. Inside it truly looked like a pineapple. It was entirely yellow inside with a slight pink blush in one spot. The tomato tasted as good as it looked. I think we had that 14 ounce tomato eaten among the four of us in about 90 seconds. It was truly delicious.
I now know I harvested last year's Pineapple Pig a little early. I would harvest it when it had a mostly yellow color among green striping. Now I know to wait until the green color is pretty much completely gone. Wow, it was a real pleasure to eat part of this tomato!
Afterward my in-laws left with a bunch of our tomatoes.
Sunday's harvest includes 17 Black Cherry, 10 Green Grape, 9 Sweet 100, 5 Supersweet 100, 5 Garden Peach, 3 Juliet, 3 Husky Cherry Red, 3 Blue Beauty, 2 Berkeley Tie Dye, 2 Speckled Roman(1), 2 Speckled Roman(2) (6 ounces), 2 Snow White, Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red(1), Stupice, Hungarian Heart, Yellow Perfection, Paul Robeson, Missouri Pink Love Apple, Black and Brown Boar, Jaune Flamme, German Orange Strawberry (9 ounces), Japanese Black Trifele, Isis Candy and Husky Red(1) for a total of 75 tomatoes.
Sunday was the first (annual?) Popsiclelooza held in the West Adams district of Los Angeles. This was a neighborhood event and roughly 40 - 50 people attended. The popsicles were made by my wife's maid of honor. Everyone had a good time. We brought more tomatoes to give away.
Today's harvest includes 9 Shah/Mikado, 9 Sweet 100, 7 Black Cherry, 6 Snow White, 5 Juliet, 4 Blue Beauty, 4 Green Grape, 3 Supersweet 100, 3 Berkeley Tie Dye, 3 Jaune Flamme, 2 Piement (6 ounces), 2 Indigo Rose, 2 Isis Candy, 2 Husky Cherry Red, 2 Stupice, 2 Jersey Giant, 2 Garden Peach, Amos Coli (new), Vorlon, Speckled Roman(1), Dr. Wyche's Yellow (7 ounces), Missouri Pink Love Apple, Crynkovic and Speckled Roman(2) for a total of 74 tomatoes.
Here's a troubling sign: The harvest numbers are dropping and some of the producing tomato plants look spent. We may be on a pace for some terrible numbers this year.
Amos Coli looks like a cross between Speckled Roman (hand grenade shape) and Piement (color).
Monday, April 15, 2013
Lots of Backyard Tomatoes Planted This Weekend
On Friday we got two more seedlings planted in the back yard -- Nyagous and Aunt Ruby's German Green.
We hoped to do a lot of back yard planting over the weekend and we were successful in that endeavor. But for those whom are reading the blog for the first time, the back yard is a lot harder to plant than the front yard. It is night and day. In the front yard there are two areas to plant, the "koi pond" (a long, thin strip of land surrounded by a gravel and brick pathway on three sides) and the "corner office" (essentially an area of dirt at the southwest corner of the front yard). The dirt in the "koi pond" was completely replaced in 2007 as well as most of the "corner office", I believe. The dirt from the "koi pond" was transported via wheelbarrow to the northeast corner of the back yard. In this spot is a raised bed supported by treated lumber. The "koi pond" got the nickname from the hole in the front yard. It looked like we were putting in a "koi pond". We replaced the dirt with compost from the city, if I remember. And that's why 2007 was a fabulous year for us, tomato-wise.
The back yard, however, is a different story. Asphalt, rocks, fill and other assorted debris litter the soil just underneath the surface. We found whole bricks underneath the soil when we planted a raised bed last year. It is clear that there was a paved surface and perhaps a structure before the property was subdivided into tract homes. And a lot of that structure was simply buried. Digging in the back yard can be quite difficult when we run into broken asphalt and fill. For the past three or so years we've pulled out hundreds pounds of rock and asphalt. And it can take quite a while to maneuver around to dislodge these pieces. Just trust me that planting in the back yard is more than a chore.
But...with each passing year it gets ever so slightly better to dig than the previous year. We may start digging a hole in an area that had been partially dug before. That becomes more and more frequent as time goes on. But we can plant in new areas such as last years’ raised bed that hasn't been dug before and brings new surprises.
On Saturday we planted Speckled Roman(2), Amos Coli, Crnkovic, Garden Peach, Ananas Noire, Cuor de Bue and a mystery tomato that may be Orange Paruche. My wife actually did the planting and caging while I dug these holes. Having noted my hole struggles earlier, the planting and caging is no small task. We fill the hole while my wife plants the tomato. She builds the "moat" around the tomato plant. Around this time I start on another hole, but the caging takes some time as well. My wife will wrap a soft wire around the top two "holes" around our concrete reinforcing wire cages. Then she will pound in a stake, turn the cage upside down so the wire is along the bottom and tie the cage to the stake. The purpose of the soft wire is to keep our new dog from digging up the seedlings.
But in one spot I hit what I'll call a "knot" -- an area that had so much packed asphalt and rock that it was nearly impossible to wedge out. I had left about a six inch hole in the ground after about 45 minutes of digging and gave up in frustration.
On Sunday we planted Green Zebra, Pineapple Pig, German Orange Strawberry, Piement (a French tomato someone gave us), Blue Beauty, Jaune Flamme and Snow White.
I had time for to dig a couple more holes Sunday evening but my shoulders told me not to. I did spend about an hour on the "knot" to get the hole down to about 18 inches. One of the above plants is in that hole. What was slightly odd was that I dug a hole about 10 feet from that "knot" spot, a spot that had even more asphalt and rocks. But it was easy to remove the fill from this location, not packed in at all.
It appears that we have room for four more tomatoes in this back yard area. However, the raised bed isn't planted and neither are any containers.
But all in all it was quite a productive weekend. But last night I was feeling my age...I'm better this morning.
We hoped to do a lot of back yard planting over the weekend and we were successful in that endeavor. But for those whom are reading the blog for the first time, the back yard is a lot harder to plant than the front yard. It is night and day. In the front yard there are two areas to plant, the "koi pond" (a long, thin strip of land surrounded by a gravel and brick pathway on three sides) and the "corner office" (essentially an area of dirt at the southwest corner of the front yard). The dirt in the "koi pond" was completely replaced in 2007 as well as most of the "corner office", I believe. The dirt from the "koi pond" was transported via wheelbarrow to the northeast corner of the back yard. In this spot is a raised bed supported by treated lumber. The "koi pond" got the nickname from the hole in the front yard. It looked like we were putting in a "koi pond". We replaced the dirt with compost from the city, if I remember. And that's why 2007 was a fabulous year for us, tomato-wise.
The back yard, however, is a different story. Asphalt, rocks, fill and other assorted debris litter the soil just underneath the surface. We found whole bricks underneath the soil when we planted a raised bed last year. It is clear that there was a paved surface and perhaps a structure before the property was subdivided into tract homes. And a lot of that structure was simply buried. Digging in the back yard can be quite difficult when we run into broken asphalt and fill. For the past three or so years we've pulled out hundreds pounds of rock and asphalt. And it can take quite a while to maneuver around to dislodge these pieces. Just trust me that planting in the back yard is more than a chore.
But...with each passing year it gets ever so slightly better to dig than the previous year. We may start digging a hole in an area that had been partially dug before. That becomes more and more frequent as time goes on. But we can plant in new areas such as last years’ raised bed that hasn't been dug before and brings new surprises.
On Saturday we planted Speckled Roman(2), Amos Coli, Crnkovic, Garden Peach, Ananas Noire, Cuor de Bue and a mystery tomato that may be Orange Paruche. My wife actually did the planting and caging while I dug these holes. Having noted my hole struggles earlier, the planting and caging is no small task. We fill the hole while my wife plants the tomato. She builds the "moat" around the tomato plant. Around this time I start on another hole, but the caging takes some time as well. My wife will wrap a soft wire around the top two "holes" around our concrete reinforcing wire cages. Then she will pound in a stake, turn the cage upside down so the wire is along the bottom and tie the cage to the stake. The purpose of the soft wire is to keep our new dog from digging up the seedlings.
But in one spot I hit what I'll call a "knot" -- an area that had so much packed asphalt and rock that it was nearly impossible to wedge out. I had left about a six inch hole in the ground after about 45 minutes of digging and gave up in frustration.
On Sunday we planted Green Zebra, Pineapple Pig, German Orange Strawberry, Piement (a French tomato someone gave us), Blue Beauty, Jaune Flamme and Snow White.
I had time for to dig a couple more holes Sunday evening but my shoulders told me not to. I did spend about an hour on the "knot" to get the hole down to about 18 inches. One of the above plants is in that hole. What was slightly odd was that I dug a hole about 10 feet from that "knot" spot, a spot that had even more asphalt and rocks. But it was easy to remove the fill from this location, not packed in at all.
It appears that we have room for four more tomatoes in this back yard area. However, the raised bed isn't planted and neither are any containers.
But all in all it was quite a productive weekend. But last night I was feeling my age...I'm better this morning.
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