My wife and I had a small cameo on a television show called “California Heartland”. We're in the teaser to the show and in the TomatoFest segment (“52 tomato plants”).
The web page for the full episode is here.
The web page for the segment is here.
Enjoy!
Our “seed lady” paid us a visit on Sunday. She indicated that she's planted some tomato seeds for 2009 (Japanese Black Trifele and Speckled Roman).
My wife was going to plant some seeds as well, but this weekend was too rainy for that project.
It's over. All the spring tomatoes are pulled.
The gardener pulled all of the tomatoes except one, a winter tomato. It should have been pulled as well but the gardeners overlooked it.
We've had three nights where it has gotten below freezing. It may happen tonight as well. This morning, it got down to 28.1 degrees at Pierce College.
Even if the tomatoes somehow mature, I don't think we'd enjoy them. So I had them all pulled.
Our 2008 spring tomato total came to 4503 tomatoes.
As I prepare for the 2009 plantings, I'll be posting again. Until then, I'll be quiet until then.
Weekend and today's harvest: Didn't look.
On Saturday, we had four tomato plants removed – Prairie Fire, Cherokee Chocolate, Black Plum Paste and Pierce's Pride.
Old Ivory Egg looks gray and not healthy. The cold weather got to it.
Today's haul: Nothing, didn't try.
While it felt a couple of degrees warmer, there was thicker frost everywhere – on grass, on our cars, everywhere.
Again, this can't be good for the plants.
Today's harvest: Nothing.
It was so cold this morning I didn't look for tomatoes.
There was a light frost on both our cars. There was snow in the mountains to the north. And from what I understand it will stay cold for a while.
Now that I look, nearby Pierce College shows temperatures below freezing last night (low 30.6 F). The high was at 7:20 AM – 46.1F.
Looking further, I see a 29.4 Fahrenheit reading at 7:20 AM on the 14th.
This is not typical Southern California weather!!
This won't be good for the tomato plants...
Yesterday's haul: Nothing.
Today's haul: Prairie Fire.
Yesterday it rained in the morning but stopped midway through the day. Last night it got colder and very windy. As my wife indicated, we're happy we got up our new fence in time!
Will our remaining tomato plants hold out? We'll see.
Saturday's haul: Nothing.
Sunday's haul: 2 winter tomatoes.
Today's haul: Nothing.
Because my wife and I were busy on Saturday morning, none of the back yard tomatoes got pulled by the gardeners.
Our Manchester Terrier picked off the last tomato on Pierce's Pride and appeared to have picked one off of Black Plum Paste.
It's been pouring today...
Yesterday's haul: Nothing. Today's haul: A good sized Aker's Plum.
Our Manchester Terrier took down (and I assume ate) the maturing Pierce's Pride as well as the one next to it. Now this plant has only one more tomato on it but it's not worth saving. Rats!!! So I harvested the Aker's Plum to keep it away from the Manchester Terrier, as well as the fact that it should be cold over the weekend. This tomato will probably ripen a bit quicker in the house.
My wife watered the pots in the back yard as well as all of the front yard.
There's a light rain falling as I type...
Today's harvest: Nothing.
Some time last weekend my wife did get the back yard watered.
On a funny note – if you know our home address, you can see the tomato plants in our front yard on Google Maps. It looks like the picture was taken in early June.
