Harvested Over 2000 Front Yard Tomatoes In August!

Today's harvest includes 37 Matt's Wild Cherry, 32 Snow White, 5 SunSugar, 5 Husky Cherry Red(2), 4 SunGold(1), 3 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Orange And Green Zebra, Pineapple (16 ounces), Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), Paul Robeson(2), Husky Cherry Red(1) and Golden Mama for a total of 93 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 2000 front yard tomatoes for August (2044)! This will tell you all you need to know -- 1458 of them are Matt's Wild Cherry.

Also, we've harvested over 750 Snow White tomatoes (754)! By the numbers it looks like a strong second wind, but if you were to see the plant it looks like the plant is dieing and the remaining fruit is prematurely maturing because of that.

Harvested Over 3000 Tomatoes in August!

Today's harvest includes 43 Matt's Wild Cherry, 20 Snow White, 4 SunSugar, 2 Husky Cherry Red(1), 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 SunGold(1), 2 Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Jaune Flamme, Garden Peach, Orange And Green Zebra, Sweet Carneros Pink, Pineapple (12 ounces), Stupice, Speckled Roman (not Speckled Roman), Yellow Brandywine, Husky Cherry Red(2) and Haley's Purple Comet for a total of 85 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 3000 tomatoes for August (3081)! Barring a meltdown, this will be the most productive August for us.

We've also harvested over 2200 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (2242)! Finally, Matt's Wild Cherry is slowing down. But there's new growth with blooms. Matt's Wild Cherry will in all probability get a second wind. But the first wind isn't over with!

We've also harvested 50 Honkin' Big Black Cherry tomatoes.

Harvested Over 7000 Tomatoes For The Year!

Today's harvest includes 77 Matt's Wild Cherry, 13 Snow White, 11 SunSugar, 4 SunGold(1), 3 Husky Cherry Red(2), 3 Honkin' Big Black Cherry, 3 Golden Mama, 2 Persimmon, SunGold(2), Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Hungarian Heart, Sweet 100, Jaune Flamme and Husky Cherry Red(1) for a total of 122 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 7000 tomatoes for the year (7042)! Based on taste alone we've had a very good year and the numbers will also show it's been a productive one as well.

However, don't let the numbers fool you. What's getting harvested are mostly tiny tomatoes. Only Hungarian Heart had any size. In fact, it's possible that these 122 tomatoes don't weigh one pound. Big numbers, tiny size.

We've now harvested over 2100 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (2145).

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 6500 Tomatoes This Year!

Today's harvest includes 61 Matt's Wild Cherry, 6 Garden Peach, 6 SunGold(1), 6 Husky Cherry Red(2), 3 Husky Cherry Red(1), 2 SunSugar, 2 Sweet 100, 2 Orange And Green Zebra, 2 Golden Mama, 2 Oaxacan Jewel(2), 2 Snow White, Kellogg's Breakfast, Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Green Grape and Haley's Purple Comet for a total of 99 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 6500 tomatoes for the year (6534)! Also, we've harvested over 3500 tomatoes from the front yard.

Also, we've harvested over 1800 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (1816)! As I suspected, the Matt's Wild Cherry harvest picked up a bit. And we've harvested over 300 SunSugar tomatoes (301).

The volume has dropped dramatically. I harvested around 2 pounds of tomatoes today, that's all.

Harvested SunGold(2)!

Saturday's harvest includes 86 Matt's Wild Cherry, 8 Garden Peach, 8 SunGold(1), 8 Husky Cherry Red(2), 6 Sweet 100, 6 Husky Cherry Red(1), 3 Snow White, 3 Green Grape, 2 SunSugar, 2 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Large Pink Anna(2), 2 Golden Mama, SunGold(2) (new), Green Zebra(1), Bloody Butcher, Haley's Purple Comet, Cassidy's Folly, Coyote (not Coyote), Hungarian Heart and Green Doctors Kiwi(2) for a total of 146 tomatoes.

Today's harvest includes 45 Matt's Wild Cherry, 8 SunGold(1), 6 Garden Peach, 5 Husky Cherry Red(2), 3 Snow White, 2 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 2 Haley's Purple Comet, Green Zebra(1), Husky Cherry Red(1), Persimmon (8.5 ounces), Golden Mama, Patio, Honkin' Big Black Cherry, SunSugar, Kellogg's Breakfast (12.5 ounces), Oaxacan Jewel(2), Sweet 100, Coyote (not Coyote), Large Pink Anna(2), Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red and Green Doctor's Kiwi(2) for a total of 85 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 300 Husky Cherry Red(1) tomatoes (303) and over 1700 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (1755)!

The reason the Matt's Wild Cherry harvest dropped on Sunday was that I harvested later in the day. The light makes all the tomatoes look ready and I know that's not the case. So I harvested conservatively. I expect the harvest to increase tomorrow, though the numbers will start to drop soon.  

Harvested Speckled Roman (not Speckled Roman)

Today's harvest includes 75 Matt's Wild Cherry, 19 Husky Cherry Red(2), 14 SunGold(1), 8 Haley's Purple Comet, 5 Husky Cherry Red(1), 5 Garden Peach, 5 Coyote (not Coyote), 4 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 3 Crimson Cushion(2) (6.5 ounces), 3 Sweet 100, 3 Persimmon (9 ounces, 12.5 ounces, 8 ounces), 2 Snow White, 2 SunSugar, 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Orange And Green Zebra, Speckled Roman (new) (not Speckled Roman), Green Zebra(1), Bloody Butcher, Golden Mama, Pineapple, Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Black Krim(1), Cassidy's Folly, Green Grape, Stupice and Oaxacan Jewel(2) for a total of 163 tomatoes.

Well, we harvested Speckled Roman...but it's not Speckled Roman. It's orange. The shape can pass for a Speckled Roman -- perhaps it's Banana Legs -- but it sure looks like the Persimmon we grow, named by the Tomato Lady of Beverly Hills. Strange. Looking on the Internet, Banana Legs is clearly yellow but the tomato I picked is orange in color. Whatever it is, it's not Speckled Roman.

We've now harvested over 6000 tomatoes for the year (6064)! And we've now harvested over 1000 tomatoes in the front yard for August. Based on the strength of the Matt's Wild Cherry harvest, our August numbers could be the best we've ever had. Stay tuned.

We've now harvested over 400 Husky Cherry Red(2) tomatoes (417) and over 1500 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (1547).

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 4500 Tomatoes For The Year!

Today's harvest includes 55 Matt's Wild Cherry, 20 Snow White, 14 Garden Peach, 10 Husky Cherry Red(2), 10 SunGold(1), 9 Husky Cherry Red(1), 9 Haley's Purple Comet, 8 Orange And Green Zebra, 5 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, 3 SunSugar, 3 Stupice, 3 Golden Mama, 3 Jaune Flamme, 3 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 3 Cassidy's Folly, 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Kellogg's Breakfast (9.5 ounces), 2 Crimson Cushion(2) (7.5 ounces, 6 ounces), 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (8 ounces), 2 Sweet Carneros Pink, 2 Coyote (not Coyote), 2 Green Grape, 2 Hungarian Heart (11.5 ounces, 17 ounces), 2 Mexico, 2 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, 2 Green Zebra(1), Portuguese Neighbor (11 ouncesa), Pineapple (13.5 ounces), Southern Night, Australian Giant Oxheart (8.5 ounces), Red Zebra, Yellow Brandywine (10.5 ounces), Oaxacan Jewel(2), Aunt Ruby's German Green(3) (10 ounces), Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Green Doctor's Kiwi(1) (not Green Doctor's Kiwi), Aunt Ruby's German Green(1), Big Zebra (6.5 ounces), German Orange Strawberry and Persimmon for a total of 194 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 4500 tomatoes for the year (4644), surpassing the total for all of 2008.

Last night we tried the 22.5 ounce Pineapple tomato at our computer user group's board meeting. Everyone liked it! Many tomatoes were handed out as well.

Harvested Sweet Carneros Pink!

Today's harvest includes 13 SunSugar, 12 Matt's Wild Cherry, 8 Vorlon (7 ounces, 8 ounces, 10.5 ounces, 6 ounces), 6 Husky Cherry Red(2), 4 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 3 Stupice, 3 SunGold(1), 3 Black Seaman(2) (6 ounces, 7 ounces), 2 Chocolate Stripes(1), 2 Green Grape, 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (11 ounces), 2 Garden Peach, 2 Bloody Butcher, Sweet Carneros Pink (new), Black And Brown Boar, Cassidy's Folly, Patio, Aunt Ruby's German Green(2), Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Lime Green Salad, Black Krim(2), Black Krim(1), Indian Stripe, Golden Mama, Paul Robeson(1), Haley's Purple Comet and Husky Cherry Red(1) for a total of 76 tomatoes.

My wife pulled Japanese Black Trifele and Oaxacan Jewel(1). This gives me better access to Golden Mama as the sprawl of Matt's Wild Cherry made it difficult to access this tomato plant.

Pink Berkeley Tie Dye had tipped over (but hadn't fallen) this morning. I propped it up with a stake.

Sweet Carneros Pink is a pretty tomato.

Many more plants have maturing tomatoes. I'll not be able to list them all but they include Oaxacan Jewel(2), Husky Gold and Portuguese Neighbor.

Harvested Four New Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 8 SunSugar, 7 Matt's Wild Cherry, 5 SunGold(1), 3 Black Cherry, 2 Green Doctor's Kiwi(2) (new), 2 Husky Cherry Red(1), 2 Husky Cherry Red(2), 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Black and Brown Boar, 2 Black Krim(2), 2 Stupice, 2 Green Grape, 2 Indian Stripe, Green Zebra(1) (new), Black Seaman(2) (new), Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red (6 ounces) (new), Vorlon (7 ounces), Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Japanese Black Trifele, Pierce's Pride and Volunteer(1) for a total of 49 tomatoes.

I forgot to mention that Green Doctor's Kiwi(2) was maturing. But Green Zebra(1) was a surprise. I noticed it last night and harvested this morning.

My wife and I tried Black and Brown Boar last night. It wasn't as full of flavor as we're used to from a Wild Boar Farms tomato. My wife described it as a bit soapy and I have to agree. We'll try other ones just to be sure -- perhaps this particular tomato was a little overripe. It is (was) a beautiful looking tomato.

The maturing tomatoes on Oaxacan Jewel(1) may never be harvested. The plant looks bad from leaf curl. The few maturing tomatoes are ripe in the shoulders with a green underside -- the opposite of how a tomato usually ripens. Also they're quite tiny.

I harvested a Patio today. But the tomato was malformed with too big a hole in it. I threw it out.

I believe a Green Zebra(2) is maturing.

Harvested Three New Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes: 10 SunSugar, 4 Paul Robeson(1), 3 Black Cherry, 3 Stupice, 3 Indian Stripe, 2 Creme Brulee, 2 SunGold(1), 2 Bloody Butcher, 2 Honkin' Big Black Cherry, 2 Green Grape, 2 Volunteer(1), 2 Japanese Black Trifele, 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, Vorlon (new), Haley's Purple Comet (new), Australian Giant Oxheart (new), Golden Mama, Husky Cherry Red(1), Jaune Flamme, Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Lime Green Salad and Pierce's Pride for a total of 48 tomatoes.

Haley's Purple Comet was a bit of a surprise. I noticed it yesterday evening. The mature tomato was well hidden. As you now know, I decided it was ripe enough to harvest.

More plants have tomatoes that are maturing. They include Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, Black and Brown Boar and Paul Robeson(2). I'm sure there are others not listed here.

Harvested Four New Tomatoes; Planted SunGold(2)

Saturday's harvest: 3 Creme Brulee, 3 SunGold(1), 3 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 SunSugar, Black Krim(2) (new) Japenese Black Trifele (new), Husky Cherry Red(1), Golden Mama and Jaune Coeur de Pigeon for a total of 16 tomatoes.

Today's harvest: 7 SunSugar, 6 Creme Brulee, 4 Stupice (new), 2 SunGold(1), Green Grape (new), Jaune Flamme, Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Japanese Black Trifele, Husky Cherry Red(1), Matt's Wild Cherry, Volunteer(1) and Honkin' Big Black Cherry for a total of 27 tomatoes.

Yesterday we picked up another SunGold to place in the spot formerly occupied by Nyagous. We got it planted this morning.

I've been doing a fair amount of staking, training and taping on Friday and Saturday. A couple plants are already approaching six feet tall.

Several more plants have tomatoes that are maturing. I don't think I can list them all but here are what I remember off the top of my head: Vorlon, Australian Giant Oxheart and Oaxacan Jewel.

We tried Creme Brulee this morning and we both liked it a lot. A mild, sweet flavor with the tomato taste coming at the end. Two thumbs up! I tried our Jaune Coeur de Pigeon and it was only okay. The tomato is normally good, but this plant is not. We both tried the Volunteer(1) and liked it, but we don't recognize the flavor.

Our Manchester Terrier picked off a ripening Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe last night and ate it.

This afternoon we put a small cage on the second volunteer. It has buds on it. I will be including it on our online spreadsheet shortly.

Black From Tula has a growing tomato on it! We are now down to only two plants without tomatoes. On wait, we just planted another SunGold, so we still have three plants without tomatoes.

Harvested Honkin' Big Black Cherry!

Today's harvest includes 4 Black Cherry, 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 SunGold, 2 SunSugar, Honkin' Big Black Cherry (new), Bloody Butcher and Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe for a total of 13 tomatoes.

Yesterday evening I staked several plants and corraled a few as best I could. German Orange Strawberry had gotten so large that it was tipping eastward. I took out a ladder and pounded an eight foot stake on the east side. This is the third stake used on the plant but the first one this tall and thick. Then I used gardening tape to pin it against the stake.

My wife pulled out Nyagous. This week's heat wave did not create any new growth. That area looks a lot better after the removal of this plant.

Many plants have tomatoes that are getting a darker shade of green in preparation of maturing in the near future. Several that are actually turning include one we harvested today, Honkin' Big Black Cherry. Green Grape is maturing. Lime Green Salad is maturing.

I misidentified Paul Robeson(2) as having maturing tomatoes. That plant turned out to be Pierce's Pride. Paul Robeson(2) is a big plant with some big, beautiful tomatoes -- but none are maturing.

The plants in the "Middle East" are doing spectacularly well. Before this year, I didn't have a plant grow taller than about 4 1/2 feet in this area. This year, every plant but one is taller than 5 feet. They're still growing and it's not even July yet.

My wife noted that the SunGold plant is growing and getting stronger due to the removal of the sweet peas. The sweet peas blocked the sun for this plant.

Indian Stripe Has Maturing Tomatoes

Today's harvest: 4 SunGold, 2 SunSugar, 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Bloody Butcher, Matt's Wild Cherry, Volunteer(1) and Husky Cherry Red(2) for a total of 12 tomatoes.

Not much to report. I spent most of the evening trying to get a sick car home (took hours, fan/radiator issues), then installing a room air conditioner with the help of my wife as well as some bamboo blinds.

I did notice that Indian Stripe tomatoes are maturing.

Harvested Nyagous, But It's Bad News

Today's harvest: 2 Husky Cherry Red(2), 2 Black Cherry, Nyagous (new), SunSugar, Bloody Butcher, Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Husky Cherry Red(1) and SunGold for a total of 10 tomatoes.

Yesterday it got up to 97 degrees at Pierce College. Our plants and tomatoes are going to get bigger!

My wife completed watering the back yard tomato plants. She also added some fertilizer to the three plants in the back yard cutout with no tomatoes as of yet.

I was surprised to see a maturing Nyagous tomato. Unfortunately, this is probably bad news. The plant looked great until it got it's first tomato. Then it stopped growing. It's gray and has a bad leaf curl. The maturation of this tomato is due to plant stress, not due to the fact it's actually ready. The tomato is only the size of a marble. This will probably be the only tomato harvested. We'll see if this heat wave will cause a growth spurt in this plant, but I doubt it.

I was surprised to see 3 maturing Black Krim(2) tomatoes. I believe Paul Robeson(1) has a maturing tomato. There's another plant in the back yard, perhaps Paul Robeson(2) with a maturing tomato.

Harvested Five New Tomatoes Over The Last Two Days!

Sunday's harvest: 3 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Bloody Butcher (new), SunSugar (new), Husky Cherry Red(1)(new), SunGold and Matt's Wild Cherry.

A tomato on the Creme Brulee plant is maturing.

My wife's parents came to our house to celebrate Father's Day. I did not sleep well the night before and was slow all day. My wife's mother picked off a mature SunSugar to eat it. I've added it to tomorrow's total.

I added fertilizer to the all the container plants. Later, my wife watered it in.

My wife began watering the tomatoes in advance of a heat wave. She got through most of the back yard.

Monday's harvest: 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, Jaune Coeur de Pigeon (new), Husky Cherry Red(2) (new), SunSugar and Black Cherry, Golden Mama.

Sweet 100 is loving it in the back yard cutout!

Harvested Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe!

Today's harvest: 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe (new), Golden Mama

I forgot to mention that my wife gave liquid vitamin B1 to several of our plants with leaf curl on Thursday. Nyagous looks particularly bad. Obviously, we hope some of these plants recover.

Last night I noticed that SunSugar, Jaune Flamme, Jaune Coeur de Pigeon and HuskyCherry Red(1) have maturing tomatoes. The volunteer tomato is looking like it will be dark – Brown Berry perhaps?

Happy Father'sDay to all the fathers out there!

Harvested Golden Mama!

Today's harvest: 2 SunGold, Matt's Wild Cherry, Golden Mama (new)

My wife saw today's harvest and put them all on the kitchen windowsill. She thought they were all harvested a day too early. Oh well.

What's with the weather? Yesterday it got up to 87.1 and today it's gray, cool and drizzling. Strange.

My wife completed watering the back and front yards yesterday, but this watering was for other plants and vegetables at our house.

We'll also be harvesting Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe any day now.