Harvested Michael Pollan and Black Seaman(1)!

Saturday's harvest includes 33 Matt's Wild Cherry, 10 Husky Cherry Red(1), 9 Husky Cherry Red(2), 8 Snow White, 5 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 5 SunGold(1), 4 Haley's Purple Comet, 4 Southern Night (6 ounces), 4 SunSugar, 3 Black Seaman(2), 3 Black Krim(1), 3 Large Pink Anna(2) (6 ounces), 2 Black Seaman(1) (new), 2 Golden Mama, 2 Jaune Coeur de Pigeon, 2 Porkchop (7 ounces), 2 Green Doctor's Kiwi(2), 2 Paul Robeson(2) (7 ounces, 9 ounces), 2 Lime Green Salad, 2 Sweet Carneros Pink, 2 Black And Brown Boar, 2 Kellogg's Breakfast (8.5 ounces, 9 ounces), 2 Orange and Green Zebra, 2 Black Krim(2), 2 Australian Giant Oxheart (10.5 ounces), 2 Bloody Butcher, Michael Pollan (new), Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Stupice, Green Grape, Jaune Flamme and Yellow Brandywine (10 ounces) for a total of 124 tomatoes.

Today's harvest includes 33 Matt's Wild Cherry, 14 Husky Cherry Red(2), 12 Husky Cherry Red(1), 6 Haley's Purple Comet, 5 Golden Mama, 5 Southern Night (6 ounces), 5 Green Grape, 4 Jaune Flamme, 4 SunSugar, 3 SunGold(1), 3 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (8 ounces, 9 ounces), 3 Green Doctor's Kiwi(2), 3 Black Krim(1) (9 ounces), 3 Black Seaman(2) (9 ounces), 3 Snow White, 3 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Stupice, 2 Michael Pollan, 2 Oaxacan Jewel(2), 2 German Orange Strawberry (12 ounces), 2 Portuguese Neighbor (9 ounces, 10 ounces), 2 Black Seaman(1), Bloody Butcher, Vorlon (6.5 ounces), Indian Stripe, Large Pink Anna(1), Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red (6.5 ounces), Sweet Carneros Pink, Australian Giant Oxheart (10.5 ounces), Kellogg's Breakfast (12 ounces) and Orange And Green Zebra for a total of 131 tomatoes.

My wife made tomato jelly on Friday and it is delicious!! You can put it on anything where jelly would go and it would be a terrific addition. Again, it's truly delicious!

Neves Azorean Red and Hungarian Heart have maturing tomatoes.

The Volunteer(1) will be pulled soon. There's "rust" over all of the plant and all of the tomatoes. The tomatoes look visually unappealing.

The Tide Is Going Out!

Today's harvest includes 22 Matt's Wild Cherry, 12 Haley's Purple Comet, 9 Husky Cherry Red(1), 9 Husky Cherry Red(2), 8 Snow White, 6 Bloody Butcher, 6 Sweet Carneros Pink, 6 Southern Night (10.5 ounces, 6 ounces), 5 SunGold(1), 5 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 5 Jaune Flamme, 4 Black Krim(1) (6 ounces), 3 Golden Mama, 3 Green Grape, 2 Stupice, 2 SunSugar, 2 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red (6.5 ounces), 2 Paul Robeson(2) (6 ounces), 2 German Orange Strawberry (10.5 ounces, 8 ounces), 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (10 ounces), 2 Black Seaman(2) (6 ounces), 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (9 ounces, 6.5 ounces), Vorlon, Porkchop (7 ounces), Australian Giant Oxheart (7.5 ounces), Crimson Cushion(2) (10 ounces), Cassidy's Folly, Garden Peach, Portuguese Neighbor (9 ounces), Volunteer(1) and Large Pink Anna(1) for a total of 128 tomatoes.

Wow, the tide went out, and fast! SunSugar, Matt's Wild Cherry and the two Husky Cherry Red plants have peaked, though both are strong enough to have a second wave.

My wife watered in the fertilizer in the rest of the container plants. She also cleaned out the dead growth in the SunSugar plant

A Big White Pink Stripe is maturing.

Harvested Persimmon!

Today's harvest includes 31 Matt's Wild Cherry, 15 Husky Cherry Red(1), 11 Snow White, 9 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 Jaune Flamme, 7 SunGold(1), 6 Haley's Purple Comet, 5 Sweet Carneros Pink, 5 Vorlon (6 ounces, 10.5 ounces), 4 Golden Mama, 4 SunSugar, 4 Southern Night, 3 Black Seaman(2) (6 ounces), 3 Black And Brown Boar, 3 Black Krim(1), 2 Porkchop, 2 Indian Stripe, 2 Bloody Butcher, 2 Green Grape, 2 Stupice, 2 Garden Peach, 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (8 ounces, 9 ounces), 2 Cassidy's Folly, 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Large Pink Anna(2) (6 ounces), Persimmon (19.5 ounces) (new), Dr. Wyche's Yellow (11.5 ounces), Paul Robeson(2) (16 ounces), Crimson Cushion(2) (6 ounces) for a total of 141 tomatoes.

Today's count is nearly a 30 percent drop from yesterday's total. Did we top out? We'll see. There will be plenty of plants with a second wind so I believe our totals will be strong this year -- but again time will tell.

The harvested Persimmon, Paul Robeson and Pink Berkeley Tie Dye are beautiful tomatoes.

Yesterday morning I added fertilizer to the container plants. My wife watered it in for SunSugar.

Several more tomato plants are ready to be pulled.

Black From Tula and Black Seaman(1) have maturing tomatoes.

Harvested Yellow Brandywine!

Today's harvest includes 46 Matt's Wild Cherry, 18 Husky Cherry Red(2), 14 Snow White, 11 SunSugar, 11 Husky Cherry Red(1), 10 Black Krim(1) (7 ounces, 11 ounces), 8 Haley's Purple Comet, 7 Golden Mama, 6 SunGold(1), 6 Bloody Butcher, 6 Large Pink Anna(2) (6 ounces, 6 ounces), 5 Southern Night (6 ounces, 6 ounces, 6 ounces), 4 Black Seaman(2), 4 Sweet Carneros Pink, 4 Lime Green Salad, 3 Green Grape, 3 Black Krim(2), 3 Black And Brown Boar, 3 Vorlon (6.5 ounces, 6 ounces), 3 Garden Peach, 2 Kellogg's Breakfast (10.5 ounces), 2 Jaune Flamme, 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Jaune Coeur de Pigeon, 2 Crimson Cushion (11 ounces, 11 ounces), 2 Orange And Green Zebra, 2 Patio, 2 Cassidy's Folly, 2 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, 2 Indian Stripe, Yellow Brandywine (12 ounces) (new), Husky Gold, Stupice, German Orange Strawberry (9 ounces) and Porkchop (8 ounces) for a total of 200 tomatoes.

Well, so much for Matt's Wild Cherry topping out. Today's harvest total was bigger than yesterday's, though by total poundage yesterday's was clearly greater than today.

Today was the first RockfordFest down at Paradise Cove. I spent all day looking at old Firebirds and hanging at Paradise Cove. Several behind the scenes people came and spoke highly of James Garner and the show's atmosphere. My wife and I brought tomatoes from yesterday's and today's harvest which were liked by all.

And that's why today's post is late. I'm sunburned!

Harvested Three New Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 33 Matt's Wild Cherry, 18 SunSugar, 17 Husky Cherry Red(2), 8 Black And Brown Boar, 8 Black Krim(1) (7.5 ounces, 10 ounces, 9 ounces, 8.5 ounces, 10 ounces), 7 Snow White (new), 5 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 5 Sungold(1), 4 Bloody Butcher, 4 Husky Cherry Red(1), 3 Southern Night, 3 Jaune Flamme, 3 Haley's Purple Comet, 3 Kellogg's Breakfast (6 ounces, 6.5 ounces, 15 ounces) 3 Vorlon (6 ounces, 8 ounces), 3 Indian  Stripe, 2 Green Grape, 2 Garden Peach, 2 Sweet Carneros Pink, 2 Lime Green Salad, 2 Green Doctor's Kiwi(2), 2 Porkchop (10.5 ounces), German Orange Strawberry (10 ounces) (new), Green Doctor's Kiwi(1) (new), Paul Robeson(1), Stupice, Orange and Green Zebra, Portuguese Neighbor (20.5 ounces), Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (7.5 ounces), Dr. Wyche's Yellow (12.5 ounces), Black Seaman(2) (6 ounces), Aunt Ruby's German Green(2), Black Krim(2), Green Zebra(2), Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red (12 ounces), Volunteer(1) for a total of 153 tomatoes.

My wife made marinated tomatoes and brought them to a pool party. From what I heard it was a huge hit!

As you can tell by the weight in parentheses, we're picking some pretty good sized tomatoes! Portuguese Neighbor is acting like this year's Jeff Davis -- uncorking some beautiful and hefty sized tomatoes.

We know one thing about Green Doctor's Kiwi(1) -- it's too big for Green Doctor's Kiwi. It's a mislabel.

SunGold(2) has an extremely tiny tomato growing on it.

My wife pulled Pierce's Pride this afternoon. There will be others to pull in the near future.

Harvested Five New Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 8 SunSugar, 7 Stupice, 7 Black and Brown Boar, 6 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 6 Husky Cherry Red(1), 4 Bloody Butcher, 4 Paul Robeson(1), 4 Lime Green Salad, 4 SunGold(1), 4 Matt's Wild Cherry, 3 Black Krim(2), 3 Jaune Coeur de Pigeon, 3 Husky Cherry Red(2), 2 Southern Night (6 ounces) (new), 2 Creme Brulee, 2 Honkin' Big Black Cherry, 2 Jaune Flamme, 2 Black Seaman(2), 2 Green Grape, Paul Robeson(2) (11.5 ounces) (new), Large Pink Anna(1) (new), Green Zebra(2) (new), Garden Peach (new), Kellogg's Breakfast (7.5 ounces) (new), Indian Stripe and Large Pink Anna(2) for a total of 83 tomatoes.

The tomato plants have been watered over yesterday and today. All the container plants got fertilizer and then it was watered in.

Five new tomatoes were harvested today! Paul Robeson(2) looked beautiful. Kellogg's Breakfast looks good but may have been harvested a day too early. That's not much of a problem at all. Southern Night looks interesting. The most unusual is Green Zebra(2). As I've mentioned earlier, it's red so it's not Green Zebra(2). The tomato had what looked like a wormhole (it's obviously a hole but I doubt it's a wormhole) so the tomato will be unusable. Until I can determine what the real tomato is, I'll keep the Green Zebra(2) moniker.

This heat wave (three days over 100 degrees) are pushing the tomatoes toward maturity. The tide is coming in!

Speckled Roman and Sweet 100 have tomatoes growing on them!

More Plants With Tomatoes!

Last night I noticed that SunSugar had a small tomato.

Tonight I got a chance to do some more tomato training. Lots of plants with new tomatoes! They include Orange and Green Zebra, Southern Night, GardenPeach, Black Seaman, Cassidy's Folly and Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red in the back yard. In the front yard Japanese Black Trifele and Green Zebra have tomatoes.

Apparently the gardeners got rid of the volunteer in the gutter last weekend. But...we may have a new volunteer in the raised bed.

More Backyard Tomatoes Planted

My wife planted some more tomatoes by the lemon tree in the back yard. She planted Nyagous, Big White Pink Stripe, Orange and Green Zebra, Portuguese Neighbour, Southern Night, Pineapple, Garden Peach, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, Emerald Evergreen, Kellogg's Breakfast, Jaune Coeur de Pigeon and Cherokee Green.

Unfortunately, Cherokee Green was dead by morning. There was permanent damage at the stem. It's assumed that the stem was eaten by cutworms or snails.

At this point, every tomato in our garden this year has been planted by my wife.