Get Better!

Today's harvest: 3 Piccolos, Evan's Italian Plum.

There isn't a lot to say, short of the fact my wife isn't feeling well. Get better soon!!

Three Plants Pulled

Today's haul includes Piccolo, Thessaloniki, Old Ivory Egg and Cherokee Chocolate.

Yesterday Arkansas Traveler, Golden Jubilee and Stupice were pulled. There was one more to be pulled – it was a last minute decision to pull it – but our green trash can was too full. So it's still in the ground.

3 Tomatoes, One More Caterpillar

Today's haul includes 2 Old Ivory Eggs and Piccolo.

I got rid of a full sized caterpillar on Painted Ukrainian.

My wife watered the front yard yesterday.

It looks like I'll have the misnamed Stupice tomato plant (we don't know what it is, just that it's not Stupice) pulled by the gardeners today, as well as the other two mentioned previously.

Blanched Tomatoes Image

A while back I promised to post an image of our blanched tomatoes. It looked very appealing and made for a terrific sauce. Here's the image:

Yum!

TomatoCasual.Com Picks Up The Story!

TomatoCasual.com has picked up on the Los Angeles Times and UPI articles. Their on line article can be found here.

As the article correctly claims, I was hoping to get to the 15000 tomato mark this year. Unfortunately due to a number of factors, it looks like we'll struggle to make the 4500 mark.

Thanks for the article, TomatoCasual!

At Least Two To Be Pulled This Weekend

Today's harvest includes 2 Piccolos, Salisaw Cafe, a very small Prairie Fire, Cherokee Chocolate and Evan's Italian Plum.

My wife watered the back yard plants yesterday.

It looks like Golden Jubilee and Arkansas Traveler will get pulled this weekend.

Those Were The Days...

I opened up the 2007 tomato spreadsheet recently. 2007 was a much better year for tomatoes for me than this year.

Here's what I harvested on Monday, July 9 2007. This date was not the largest harvest date for the month.

The haul included: 92 SunGolds, 47 Garden Peaches, 40 Husky Cherry Reds, 36 Snow Whites, 23 Red Pear Italians, 19 Health Kicks, 17 Black Cherries, 12 Red Currants, 10 Jaune Flammes, 9 Speckled Romans, 7 Green Grapes, 7 Kellogg's Breakfasts (12 ounces, 8 ounces, 13.5 ounces, 12 ounces, 9.5 ounces), 5 Mr. Stripeys (19 ounces, 21 ounces, 10 ounces, 11.5 ounces, 10 ounces), 5 Patios, 5 Mortgage Lifters (13 ounces, 14 ounces, 8.5 ounces, 12 ounces), 4 Green Zebras, 4 Noire Charbonneuse, 4 Jeff Davis (16 ounces, 12 ounces, 19.5 ounces, 23 ounces), 4 Gargantuas (7.5 ounces, 7 ounces, 8 ounces, 14 ounces), 3 Cherokee Purples (8.5 ounces, 6 ounces), 3 Garden Peaches (container) and 3 Black Krims (9.5 ounces, 8 ounces, 13 ounces). 359 tomatoes!

By comparison, the largest harvest total in 2008 was 164. The blog entry for this date can be found here.

My brother was married the day before. Those were the days!

New Blooms, Old Plants

Today's haul: 2 Piccolos, Stupice and Cherokee Chocolate.

Piccolo is now firmly in second place in the harvest totals for 2008.

I taped a few tomato plants in the morning – Kellogg's Breakfast, Aker's Plum and Sioux come to mind.

Several plants are getting new blooms after dropping all of their fruit. Aker's Plum actually has a couple of new tomatoes – will any others follow suit?

Two Tomatoes, One Caterpillar, One Possum

Today's harvest: Piccolo and Thessaloniki.

I found another caterpillar, this one on Red Yellow Cap.

When time permits I need to do a little more taping and also determine if there are more plants to pull.

I watered the winter tomatoes this morning.

Also, I forgot to mention that we called Animal Control on Monday to get rid of a well fed possum. Perhaps the possum has been eating our back yard tomatoes? They've disappeared in a hurry...

Three Tomatoes, Two Caterpillars

Today's harvest: Piccolo, Kimberly and Cherokee Chocolate.

I found two caterpillars, a full sized one on Aker's Plum (which showed indications of another caterpillar a few days ago, but I didn't find it until now) and a smaller one on Painted Ukrainian.

Last night my wife completed the watering of the front yard tomatoes. Also, she did a lot of work on her roses.