Today's and yesterday's harvest: Nothing.
I propped up Kimberly this morning.
Before I went out of state, Black Cherry had seven tomatoes on it. However, they were only a couple inches off of the ground. And they couldn't be moved from that position.
When I came back there were three tomatoes on it. Today, there are none. The dogs got to them!
Today's harvest: Evan's Italian Plum.
The tomato was mature, but too leathery for human consumption. So I gave it to our Manchester Terrier.
While I was outside, the Santa Ana winds knocked the Kimberly tomato plant over. I didn't have time to fix it, that's for tonight. But it doesn't look damaged by the fall.
Today's haul: Sioux.
My wife watered the front yard yesterday.
Also, she's done tons of work trying to get the garden in shape, especially the front yard. For the last four weeks, our green trash can garden recyclables has been overflowing.
Today's harvest includes 2 Piccolos, 2 Evan's Italian Plums (one 7.5 ounces, even this late in the season...), Old Ivory Egg and Cherokee Chocolate.
My wife pulled Thessaloniki on Wednesday only to discover that it had two tomatoes on it! This isn't quite as bad as it sounds. I had kept Thessaloniki around because I swore I saw tomatoes on it but I could never find them. This went on for weeks. The plant was starting to lean again, looking more and more fragile (though green) and so on. So my wife decided to pull it, if for no other reason than it was this big large, lurching, ugly tomato plant in the middle of the front yard surrounded by either bare dirt or recently manicured rose bushes. It's understandable.
Also, we got a tomato from one of the winter plants – I think it was Oregon Spring.
My wife watered the back yard yesterday.
And today's harvest includes: 3 Evan's Italian Plums, 2 Prairie Fires, Piccolo and a nice ripe Aker's Plum.
In regards to pulling Kellogg's Breakfast on Monday, I was wrong. That's still in the ground.
My wife and I replaced one of the cages for one of the winter tomatoes.
There won't be any updates from me from now until Monday. I'll be out of town until Sunday night.
Catching up...
On Saturday I picked Piccolo. Also, we picked our first winter tomato, but I'm a bit embarrassed to say I'm not sure which plant it is. It's either Siberian or Glacier but I'm not sure which.
My wife watered the front yard.
The gardeners pulled five tomato plants in the morning: Red Yellow Cap, Carbon, Italian Market Wonder, Painted Ukrainian, Kellogg's Breakfast and Olga's Round Yellow Chicken.
In the evening the Manchester Terrier knocked off our Pierce's Pride tomato. It wasn't nearly ripe enough to be salvageable.
On Sunday, I picked Piccolo and Evan's Italian Plum. My birthday was on Sunday. There was a Saturday night dinner at a Korean restaurant and Sunday brunch with relatives.
Because I got up late today I didn't check for tomatoes. The air was very dry, it was windy, and several fires were going in the hills.
Today's harvest: 2 Evan's Italian Plums.
Had I been more observant, I could have picked at least one of these tomatoes, keeping the harvest streak alive. At least one and perhaps both could have been considered mature yesterday.
My wife completed the back yard watering yesterday.
It looks like I will get rid of a lot of old tomato plants this weekend. Stay tuned.
Today's harvest...nothing!
We had nothing available to harvest today. The last day where we didn't harvest a tomato was May 23.
My wife watered the north side of the back yard yesterday.
Yesterday I was expecting to pick a ripe Kimberly but never found it. In the evening, my wife found our Manchester Terrier with, you guessed it, that tomato.
The incorrect 11,000 pounds of tomatoes story continues to spread. Other links can be found here...
