Harvested Pineapple(2) Tomato!

Today's harvest includes 24 SunGold, 13 Snow White(1), 8 Black Cherry(2), 7 Sweet Baby Girl, 6 Snow White(2), 5 Sweet Million, 5 Crimson Cushion, 4 Sweet 100, 4 Husky Cherry Red(2), 3 SunSugar, 3 Redfield Beauty, 3 Nyagous(2) (not Nyagous), 2 Black Cherry(1), 2 Big Zebra (12.5 ounces), 2 Noire Charbonneuse(2), 2 Indigo Apple(2), 2 Black and Brown Boar(2), 2 Neves Azorean Red, 2 Amazon Chocolate, 2 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, 2 Berkeley Tie Dye, 2 Earl of Edgecombe, 2 German Orange Strawberry, Pineapple(2) (14 ounces) (new), Speckled Roman(1), White Zebra, Black and Brown Boar(1), Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Pineapple(1) (8 ounces), Brad's Black Heart (6 ounces), Pink Furry Boar, Oaxacan Pink, Husky Cherry Red(1), Nebraska Wedding (8 ounces), Garden Peach, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Marmara, Taxi, Indigo Rose, Jaune Flamme(2) and Porkchop(2) for a total of 125 tomatoes.

The harvested Pineapple(2) is a beauty! This is a grafted tomato, a birthday gift from our friend Allison.

Copper River has a growing tomato! I was looking for possible tomato plants to pull and I'll be darned it has a growing tomato!

I hope it can survive the heat. Yesterday it got up to 108.1 degrees at Pierce College!

My wife watered the front yard tomatoes in the morning after pulling out Chile Verde.

We've now harvested 800 Husky Cherry Red(2) tomatoes and over 100 Black Cherry(2) tomatoes (107). 

Harvested Over 150 Garden Peach Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 28 SunGold, 12 Snow White(2), 7 Sweet 100, 6 Garden Peach, 6 Black Cherry(1), 5 Black Cherry(2), 4 Sweet Baby Girl, 4 SunSugar, 4 Redfield Beauty, 4 Snow White(1), 4 Husky Cherry Red(1), 3 Husky Cherry Red(2), 3 Big Zebra (9.5 ounces), 3 Nyagous(2) (not Nyagous), 2 Gypsy, 2 Delicious (7.5 ounces), 2 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, 2 Big Bite (6 ounces, 8 ounces), 2 Porkchop(2), 2 Yellow Furry Boar, 2 Indigo Apple(1), 2 Brad's Black Heart (7 ounces, 7 ounces), 2 Red Currant, 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (7 ounces, 7 ounces), Nyagous(1), Jaune Flamme(1), Black and Brown Boar(1), Ella's Pink Plum, Pineapple(1), Pineapple Pig (13 ounces), Green Grape, Black From Tula (6 ounces), Nebraska Wedding (7 ounces), Japanese Black Trifele, Purple Dog Creek (7 ounces), Italian Heirloom, Amazon Chocolate (6 ounces), Marianna's Peace (10.5 ounces), Indigo Apple(2) and Earl of Edgecombe(8.5 ounces) for a total of 129 tomatoes.

I placed fertilizer in the container plants and my wife dutifully watered it in later in the day.

My wife made a tomato salad, using tomatoes from nearly every color in the rainbow. The salad colors were enticing by itself. We visited the "seed lady" in the afternoon and enjoyed dinner with her company. The salad was a hit.

We harvested over 150 Garden Peach tomatoes this year (154)! However, most of the recent Garden Peach tomatoes are close to inedible. They're small and desiccated. This plant may get pulled sooner rather than later. 

Harvested Over 400 Black Cherry(1) Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 23 SunGold, 18 Black Cherry(1), 10 Husky Cherry Red(1), 6 Sweet Baby Girl, 6 Snow White(1), 5 Black and Brown Boar(2), 5 Creme Brulee, 5 Husky Cherry Red(2), 4 Garden Peach, 3 SunSugar, 3 Snow White(2), 3 Black Cherry(2), 3 Pineapple(1) (12 ounces, 17 ounces, 13.5 ounces), 3 Speckled Roman(3) (6 ounces), 3 Noire Charbonneuse(2), 3 Sweet 100, 2 Big Zebra, 2 Indigo Apple(1), 2 Chinese Tea, 2 Gypsy, 2 Indigo Rose, 2 Ramapo, 2 Pineapple Pig (10 ounces), 2 Nyagous(2) (not Nyagous), 2 Berkeley Tie Dye, 2 Redfield Beauty, White Zebra, Vorlon (12 ounces), Black and Brown Boar(1), Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Matt's Wild Cherry, Sweet Million, Red Currant, Yellow Perfection, Pink Furry Boar, Nebraska Wedding (9 ounces), Yellow Furry Boar, Purple Dog Creek (8 ounces), Italian Heirloom (6 ounces), Amazon Chocolate, Marianna's Peace (6.5 ounces), Indigo Apple(2) and Red Boar(1) for a total of 140 tomatoes.

My wife made 8 jars of tomato jelly yesterday. Also, she watered more of the back yard and pulled out Brown Berry. Here's an image of the tomato jelly jars:

The harvested Pineapple(1) tomatoes look really nice!

At dinner we tried Big Zebra. This was the 19 ounce tomato harvested last week. We both liked it a lot! Beautiful to look at, tasty, tangy and delicious, leaving a slight acid aftertaste.

We've now harvested over 4500 tomatoes in the back yard this year (4600). Also, we've now harvested over 400 Black Cherry(1) tomatoes (407), 150 Red Currant tomatoes, over 100 Sweet Baby Girl tomatoes (105) and over 50 Black and Brown Boar(2) tomatoes (54). 

Harvested Over 6000 Tomatoes In July!

Today's harvest includes 40 SunGold, 19 Black Cherry(1), 17 Husky Cherry Red(2), 10 Snow White(1), 6 Snow White(2), 5 Garden Peach, 5 Husky Cherry Red(1), 4 Nyagous(2) (not Nyagous), 4 Black and Brown Boar(2), 4 Sweet Baby Girl, 3 Yellow Perfection, 3 Noire Charbonneuse(2), 3 Redfield Beauty, 3 Indigo Rose, 3 Jaune Flamme(2), 3 Earl of Edgecombe (6 ounces, 8 ounces), 3 Black Cherry(2), 2 Green Grape, 2 German Orange Strawberry (8.5 ounces), 2 Speckled Roman(3) (6 ounces), 2 Carmello, 2 Gypsy, 2 Red Boar(1), 2 Indigo Apple(2), Berkeley Tie Dye, Sweet Million, Red Currant, Pineapple(1) (10 ounces), Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(1) (6.5 ounces), Pink Furry Boar, Oaxacan Pink (7.5 ounces), Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Big Bite, Pineapple Pig, Japanese Black Trifele (6 ounces), Italian Heirloom (10 ounces), Creme Brulee, Yellow Furry Boar, Purple Dog Creek (9 ounces), Amana Orange (10 ounces), Delicious (9 ounces), Red Boar(2), Amazon Chocolate, Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, Taxi, Porkchop(2) and SunSugar for a total of 172 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 6000 tomatoes for the month of July (6088)! This is a sign of a tremendous month. If time permits, I'll do a comparison with prior years (I didn't have time at the end of June to go across years). But I can state -- our tomatoes have been quite tasty (truly the only thing that matters), large and plentiful. Everything else is just noise.

Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(2) and Brown Berry need to be pulled. 

Harvested Over 2000 SunGold Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 106 SunGold, 33 Husky Cherry Red(1), 25 Black Cherry(1), 18 Husky Cherry Red(2), 15 Snow White(1), 13 Garden Peach, 8 Black and Brown Boar(2), 7 Indigo Rose, 6 Black Cherry(2), 6 Marmara, 5 Berkeley Tie Dye (7.5 ounces, 6.5 ounces), 5 Nyagous(2) (not Nyagous), 4 Delicious (7 ounces, 14 ounces), 4 Pink Furry Boar (6 ounces), 4 Big Bite (6 ounces, 7 ounces, 7 ounces, 7 ounces), 4 Jaune Flamme(2), 4 Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg (6.5 ounces), 3 Snow White(2), 3 Sweet Baby Girl, 3 Black Krim(1) (9 ounces, 9 ounces, 7 ounces), 3 Indigo Apple(2), 3 Creme Brulee (8 ounces), 3 Indigo Apple(1), 2 Jaune Flamme(1), 2 Red Boar(1), 2 Ramapo (8.5 ounces), 2 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, 2 Redfield Beauty, 2 Crimson Cushion, 2 Yellow Furry Boar, 2 Speckled Roman(3), 2 Gypsy, 2 Noire Charbonneuse(2) (6 ounces), 2 Purple Dog Creek (12.5 ounces, 9 ounces), 2 Omar's Lebanese (10.5 ounces, 20 ounces), 2 Amazon Chocolate (6 ounces), 2 German Orange Strawberry (11.5 ounces, 9.5 ounces), 2 Black Krim(2) (11.5 ounces), 2 Thessaloniki, 2 Brad's Black Heart (9.5 ounces, 8 ounces), 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 Chinese Tea, Nyagous(1), Pierce's Pride(1), Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Speckled Roman(2), Sweet Million, Sweet 100, Red Currant, Green Grape, Yellow Perfection, Big Zebra, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(1), Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(2), Pineapple(1) (7.5 ounces), Marianna's Peace (6 ounces), Persimmon (13.5 ounces), Earl of Edgecombe and SunSugar for a total of 340 tomatoes.

As mentioned previously, this number is artificially inflated due to the lack of a harvest yesterday. I still consider the high harvest number to be 303 for this year.

Outstanding tomatoes in this harvest include Persimmon (as always), German Orange Strawberry and Omar's Lebanese.

Again, I want to thank all that came to our tomato party on Saturday. We had a great time and hope you did as well. Thank you Irina and Bob for coming all the way from San Jose to join us!

We've now harvested over 2000 SunGold tomatoes (2041), over 600 Husky Cherry Red(2) tomatoes (617) and 100 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes. Also, we've now harvested over 3500 back yard tomatoes in July (3538) and over 4000 tomatoes in the back yard this year (4136). 

An Indigo Rose is Maturing!

Today's harvest includes 21 SunGold, 18 Husky Cherry Red(1), 14 Husky Cherry Red(2), 4 Red Currant, 3 Nyagous(1), 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 Sweet Baby Girl, 2 Yellow Currant, Sweet Million, Ella's Pink Plum, Black Cherry(1), Carmello and SunSugar for a total of 71 tomatoes.

I had another Yellow Furry Boar harvested but it had both damage and a worm on it. Nope. Thrown away, doesn't count.

A fair amount of new maturing tomatoes are almost ripe -- I'll probably pick them tomorrow.

New plants with maturing tomatoes include Indigo Rose(!), Snow White(1), Black and Brown Boar(2) and Chinese Tea.  

Harvested (and Tossed) Yellow Furry Boar!

Yesterday's harvest includes 18 SunGold, 15 Husky Cherry Red(1), 11 Husky Cherry Red(2), 10 Sweet Baby Girl, 10 Sweet 100, 4 Nyagous(1), 4 Black Cherry(1), 3 Sweet Million, 3 SunSugar, 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 Red Currant, 2 Yellow Perfection, Yellow Furry Boar (new) for a total of 85 tomatoes.

Today's harvest includes 23 SunGold, 17 Husky Cherry Red(2), 16 Husky Cherry Red(1), 6 Sweet 100, 4 Nyagous(1), 4 Matt's Wild Cherry, 4 Yellow Currant, 4 SunSugar, 3 Sweet Baby Girl, 2 Sweet Million, 2 Red Currant, 2 Black Cherry(1) and Crimson Cushion for a total of 88 tomatoes.

I was going to post that Yellow Furry Boar was a bit of a surprise, but it was damaged (It looked like a bird had pecked it). I figured my wife wouldn't try to salvage it, though it was a possibility. She didn't. She tossed it. I still counted this one because it didn't prematurely mature do to malformation -- it's just the first tomato for that plant got hit by a bird's beak.

The Green Zebra plant appears to be diseased.

I did a fair amount of staking and taping yesterday evening. A fair amount of plants are leaning due to growing up out the top of the cage and getting top heavy. It's getting harder and harder to maneuver around some of these plants...

My wife watered the patio tomato plants yesterday.

Taxi, Creme Brulee and Jaune Flamme(2) have maturing tomatoes. I'm sure there are others. The maturing Dr. Wyche's Yellow is large.

We've now harvested over 200 SunGold (217) tomatoes. 

Harvested Thessaloniki, Black Cherry(2) and Redfield Beauty!

This morning's harvest includes 18 SunGold, 12 Sweet Baby Girl, 11 Husky Cherry Red(1), 6 Husky Cherry Red(2), 3 Matt's Wild Cherry, 3 SunSugar, 2 Nyagous(1), 2 Sweet Million, 2 Sweet 100, 2 Red Currant, 2 Yellow Perfection, Redfield Beauty (new), Thessaloniki (new), Black Cherry(2) (new), Yellow Currant and Black Cherry(1) for a total of 68 tomatoes.

Yesterday evening I took a little time to look at the tomatoes. Black Cherry(2) was a surprise -- the tomato I was looking at was not only maturing, it was ready for harvest. So I harvested it this morning. I saw a small Redfield Beauty maturing. I decided to harvest it right away because the tomato had some large flaws. We're not going to be able to eat it as is. My wife will cut it up and save the good parts for a salad or a dish. It was good enough to use, so it gets counted.

But the main issue was with the two Husky Cherry Red tomato plants. The two plants had been sprawling. A couple of the branches were getting so heavy that they were doubling over due to the weight of the tomatoes. I've been essentially avoiding the repair work until I had more time. I had "fixed" one branch yesterday morning but by the time I got back in the evening, the branch was wilting. The branch developed a weakness that affected the rest of the branch. I brought my wife over to literally stand between the two plants (propping them both up where they met), added a couple of stakes and tape. We lost about a dozen Husky Cherry Red tomatoes fixing the branches. It remains to be seen if the bad branch is saved. It had about 40 growing tomatoes on it.

But I also saw other maturing tomatoes. These include Speckled Roman(2), Dr. Wyche's Yellow and this morning it appears that Giant Syrian is maturing.

The weather this week will top off in the low 90's. A lot of plants will get maturing tomatoes.

I won't be able to look at the plants this evening. I could have some surprises tomorrow morning.

Sorry for the late post, I had a busy morning... 

Harvested Black Cherry(1)!

Today's harvest includes 23 SunGold, 9 Husky Cherry Red(1), 7 Sweet Baby Girl, 6 Sweet 100, 5 Husky Cherry Red(2), 2 Sweet Million, 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, Black Cherry(1) (new), Yellow Perfection, Nyagous(1), Crimson Cushion, SunSugar and Green Grape for a total of 60 tomatoes.

I didn't do any work on the tomatoes yesterday evening. Around this time of the year I'm doing a bit of "gathering", taping, staking and looking for maturing tomatoes. I missed Black Cherry(1). The one harvested today was tiny, but there's plenty of larger tomatoes maturing for Black Cherry(1).

My wife watered the front yard tomatoes, the container plants, the tomato plants in the redwood raised bed and the ones by the lemon tree. She'll complete the watering this morning.

We've now harvested over 500 tomatoes for the month and for the year. 

Harvested Noire Charbonneuse(1) and Carmello!

Today's harvest includes 21 SunGold, 11 Husky Cherry Red(2), 8 Sweet 100, 8 Husky Cherry Red(1),  6 Sweet Baby Girl, 3 Yellow Currant, 3 Matt's Wild Cherry, 3 SunSugar, 2 Green Grape, 2 Nyagous(1), Noire Charbonneuse(1) (new), Carmello (new), Sweet Million and Red Currant for a total of 71 tomatoes.

Yesterday my mother-in-law and her older sister came to visit. We roasted zucchini, eggplant, chile, chicken and skewered tomatoes on the barbeque. The food was good and the company was good as well. We visited a local carnival in our neighborhood for a short period of time. We gave most of our remaining harvested tomatoes to our relatives to take home.

I did a fair amount of hand trimming old and yellowing tomato leaves in the front yard in the evening.

Noire Charbonneuse was my favorite tomato of 2007. The one we harvested today was a little blotchy, but it was ready to harvest. 

Harvested 100 Husky Cherry Red(1) Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 12 SunGold, 11 Husky Cherry Red(1), 11 Husky Cherry Red(2), 4 Green Grape, 2 Sweet Baby Girl, 2 Sweet 100, Yellow Perfection, Matt's Wild Cherry, Yellow Currant and SunSugar for a total of 46 tomatoes.

Yesterday morning my wife cut up several tomatoes for us to eat for breakfast. Her description of Green Grape: "Heaven!". Nyagous -- "Better than Green Grape". Ella's Pink Plum -- "Not much flavor". I tried the three of them and had to agree on all the opinions. Nyagous had a juicier taste than Green Grape. Ella's Pink Plum was "crunchy" and didn't have much flavor. But it would make a good support tomato in a salad or a sauce. Also, we may have picked it too early.

We gave almost all of our uneaten tomatoes to our friends Elizabeth and Ricardo. They gave us at least 30 pounds of zucchini!

We've now harvested 100 Husky Cherry Red(1) tomatoes. Yesterday we harvested over 100 SunGold tomatoes for the year. 

Harvested Green Grape, Ella's Pink Plum and Yellow Currant!

Today's harvest includes 10 Husky Cherry Red(1), 8 SunGold, 5 Husky Cherry Red(2), 4 Green Grape (new), 4 Sweet Baby Girl, 3 Yellow Perfection, 2 Yellow Currant (new), 2 Ella's Pink Plum (new) Sweet Million and SunSugar for a total of 40 tomatoes.

We were anticipating harvesting the Yellow Currant and Ella's Pink Plum tomatoes but the Green Grape tomatoes came as a surprise! I noticed them yesterday evening. The Green Grape tomatoes look fantastic! I'll have a couple more to harvest tomorrow.

I harvested a couple of Yellow Perfection tomatoes a little sooner than normal. These were literally touching the ground. We have a small pile of uneaten tomatoes, and they'll just join the pile.

Other plants with maturing tomatoes include Noire Charbonneuse(1), Thessaloniki and Carmello.

I did a little more trimming, training, staking and looking for maturing tomates yesterday evening. At this point I'm more fighting for maneuvering room with the training than anything else. These plants are already quite tall.

Update: Our toy poodle was barking in the back yard most of the morning, to the point where I was getting somewhat annoyed. I brought him inside when I intended to start this blog post. As I was typing, he clearly wanted to go back out. Eventually he started to scratch the door. My wife decided to let him out, but she followed.

Turns out we had trapped an opossum in a HavaHart trap. That in and of itself isn't unusual, we have to do that once or twice a year. What made it unusual is that we didn't bait the trap! The opossum went in there all by himself (or herself). Now we know what our poodle was excited about.

On the way back in the house, I asked my wife to check out Ella's Pink Plum. She tested them and found them ready to harvest. I hadn't finished posting today's blog so I added them to today's numbers. 

Pineapple(2) Has a Growing Tomato!

Today's harvest includes 10 SunGold, 6 Sweet Baby Girl, 5 Husky Cherry Red(1), 4 Sweet 100, 3 Husky Cherry Red(2), Yellow Perfection and Nyagous(1) for a total of 30 tomatoes.

Pineapple(2) has a growing tomato on it! Unofficially, the only plant without a tomato on it is Copper River.

Having wrote that, Paul Robeson has one growing tomato and the plant is struggling.

Yellow Currant has maturing tomatoes! This is good to see.

My wife says that the highs in the San Fernando Valley will be in the mid to high 80's. This is normal if not a tad cool for the area. But it's great for more fruit setting. The "high season" -- sometime in the second half of July is my guess -- will get delayed by a day or two. But it's all good. The plants aren't getting too stressed. Everything points to a really good year. 

Ella's Pink Plum Has Maturing Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 8 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 SunGold, 6 Husky Cherry Red(1), Matt's Wild Cherry, Sweet Baby Girl, Sweet Million, Red Currant and Nyagous(1) for a total of 26 tomatoes.

My wife watered in the fertilizer for the other two front yard tomato plants yesterday. I did a bit of training when I got home from work, but things were mostly in order.

When harvesting this morning I noted that Ella's Pink Plum has a couple of maturing tomatoes! We look forward to both seeing and eating this tomato -- it looks interesting. 

Harvested Crimson Cushion!

Today's harvest includes 9 SunGold, 6 Husky Cherry Red(1), 3 Husky Cherry Red(2), 3 SunSugar 2 Sweet Baby Girl, 2 Sweet 100 and Crimson Cushion (new) for a total of 26 tomatoes.

I spent a fair amount of time training and pruning the yellowing and browing branches last evening. This behavior is natural as the plant will concentrate on fruit production. Don't start watering to try to turn yellow branches green again -- it will never happen. Our SunGold plant is about six and a half feet tall already, but most of the branches in the bottom foot have been cut away. This is a good thing -- it means there's lots of fruit that need nourishment!

While I wasn't exhaustive in my searching, I did look underneath a lot of tomato plants looking for new maturing fruit. Short of Crimson Cushion, I didn't see any. I saw a fair amount of tomatoes that look pretty close to turning color, but none turning color. Is this an issue? Nope, it's more a function of the weather. A few days ago it got up to almost 98 degrees, and the harvest numbers go higher. Well, they'd go up anyway at this time of the year but it spiked higher than expected. The last few days have cooled off. We probably won't hit yesterday's 45 total for a few days. When the temperature spikes, the harvest spikes a couple days afterward above and beyond the normal upslope.

My wife watered in the fertilizer in the containers and most of the front yard plants. She had watered on Monday, so she watered just enough for the fertilizer to soak into the ground, meaning she barely watered.

We had some of our Nyagous(1) tomatoes in a pasta dish last night. The pasta and the tomatoes were delicious! 

All Previous 2012 Harvested Tomatoes Were Harvested Today

Today's harvest includes 7 SunGold, 7 Sweet Baby Girl, 6 Nyagous(1), 6 Husky Cherry Red(1), 4 Yellow Perfection, 3 Matt's Wild Cherry, 3 Sweet 100, 3 Husky Cherry Red(2), 3 SunSugar, 2 Sweet Million and Red Currant for a total of 45 tomatoes.

SunGold has passed Husky Cherry Red(1) in production. Currently I've harvested 68 SunGold and 62 Husky Cherry Red(1) tomatoes. There's plenty more for both plants though SunGold should keep the lead.

Independently of yesterday's blog post, my wife harvested 5 Nyagous(1) yesterday morning. She noted that they were looking too soft -- essentially I waited too late to harvest this batch. She'll be able to save these by using them in cooking. I harvested a sixth one this morning.

I believe that every tomato harvested previously this year was also harvested today.

My wife finished watering the front yard tomatoes and completely watered the back yard tomatoes. That took over half the day. By the time I got home in the evening one of the plants in the back yard had fallen down. Don't panic, it didn't fall completely down, it fell into a rose bush. I believe the plant that fell was Nyagous(2). I called my wife over and she knew the drill -- she held the plant upright while I got a hammer, glove and a couple of stakes. I used two wooden stakes on the outside of the cage to "cradle" it and it seems no worse for the wear.

This morning another plant had fallen, but it had fallen into another plant. For this one I used a six foot, three quarter inch non-wooden stake and placed on the inside of the cage to support it.

So why do they fall? Three factors go into it. 1) A recent watering loosens the ground underneath 2) A relatively small cage compared to the others and 3) A plant that's outgrown the smaller cage. Essentially the plant becomes top heavy with vines and fruit. If the plant falls flat on the ground there's always some damage but that doesn't occur often. Usually they fall into another plant and that other plant prevents any real damage.

I didn't do much training at all yesterday. I can tell there's a lot to do.

I did add fertilizer to about eight plants in the front yard and the two Husky Cherry plants in the back yard. My wife may water it in today.

I don't see any maturing tomatoes that are changing to their mature color, but I do see a lot of tomatoes that are darkening. This is the step before they change to their mature color. Expect a lot of maturing tomatoes over the next couple weeks. 

Harvested Nyagous(1)!

Today's harvest includes 6 SunGold, 5 Sweet Baby Girl, 4 Matt's Wild Cherry, 4 Husky Cherry Red(1), 3 Yellow Perfection, 2 Nyagous(1) (new), 2 Husky Cherry Red(2), Sweet Million and Sweet 100 for a total of 28 tomatoes

Husky Cherry Red(2) had some falling branches this morning. The weight of the fruit on the branches, plus the fact the branches got wet this morning (The sprinklers hit this tomato plant) pulled down several of them. I tied and staked them the best I could without getting too soaked, but lost a couple of tomatoes in the process.

We harvested Nyagous(1) today! However, I may have waited a day too late. They look a bit dessicated.

It got up to over 97 degrees yesterday. That was unexpected. Had I known that I would have harvested Nyagous(1) on Saturday. The ripening bunch is near a cage wire (within a half inch) and when it gets hot, the actual cage heats up, affecting the fruit abutting or touching the cage wire.

My wife watered part of the "koi pond" yesterday. She'll water some more today.

I added fertilizer to the container plants but it needs to be watered in.

Crimson Cushion has a maturing tomato! I'm surprised it's maturing this soon -- this plant has a long duration to maturity. 

Looks Like It Will Be A Really Good Year...

Yesterday's harvest: 6 SunGold, 5 Husky Cherry Red(2), 3 Husky Cherry Red(1) and SunSugar for a total of 15 tomatoes.

Today's harvest includes 12 SunGold, 5 Husky Cherry Red(1), 3 Red Currant, 2 Yellow Perfection, 2 Husky Cherry Red(2), 2 Sweet Baby Girl, Sweet 100 and SunSugar for a total of 28 tomatoes.

I did a lot of tomato taping and training yesterday. For a fair amount of the tomato plants, the cage is stuffed and can take little more. So I'm taping the branches against the cage. Why? I'm fighting for room in the garden! Otherwise I'll literally be crawling among the tomato plants.

My wife watered the patio tomatoes yesterday afternoon.

It's looking more and more like it will be a really good year. 

Harvested Matt's Wild Cherry!

Today's harvest includes 10 SunGold, 3 Husky Cherry Red(1), 3 Husky Cherry Red(2), 2 SunSugar, Matt's Wild Cherry (new), Sweet Baby Girl and Sweet 100 for a total of 21 tomatoes.

I spent a fair amount of time taping tomato branches, training tomato branches and unfortunately, breaking a few of them in the process.

Big Bite is the first plant to reach the top of the concrete reinforcement wire cage, about five and a half feet tall. SunGold is the first plant to completely reach the top of the Texas Cage, about six feet tall.

Aunt Ruby's German Green has a growing tomato! It's quite small but it is there.

Several Nyagous(1) tomatoes are maturing in the "corner office".  

Kings Win!!

Today's harvest: 6 Husky Cherry Red(2), 5 Husky Cherry Red(1), 5 SunGold, 2 Sweet Million and 2 Sweet Baby Girl for a total of 20 tomatoes.

I woke up earlier than usual yesterday. In the morning all I did was harvest.

I got home early from work, just in time to start watching hockey with my wife. The Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup!!!!!!!!! Enough said.

When I woke up this morning the Kings had still won the Stanley Cup. It wasn't a dream. I did a little bit of training during this morning's harvest.