Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Tomatoes In The News


Here's the latest batch of tomatoes in the news...

Talking Retail – Tesco Launches Sweeter Tomato

Swazi Observer (Swaziland) – Tomato Project To benefit From SIPA, Neotech Partnership

Cape Cod Times (MA) – “It's The Tomato Man!”

GreenMed Journal (Mediterranean Area) – Norway's Tomato Consumption Booming

Drummoyne Village Voice (Australia) – Pick Of the Tomato Crop


Harvested Over 200 Garden Peach Tomatoes!


Today's harvest includes 3 Snow White(2), 2 Garden Peach and Babywine for a total of 6 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 200 Garden Peach(2) tomatoes (201)! We haven't harvested a Garden Peach in nearly 2 months, but several of them are maturing now.

Also, we've now harvested over 5800 tomatoes from the front yard (5801) this year.


Monday, November 30, 2009

Finishing Off November...


Monday's harvest: 2 Snow White(2) and White Zebra for a total of 3 tomatoes.

Tuesday's harvest: 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (one 6 ounces), Snow White(2) and Babywine for a total of 4 tomatoes.

Wednesday's harvest: 3 Snow White(2) and a back yard Husky Cherry Red for a total of 4 tomatoes.

Thursday's harvest: Snow White(1) and Babywine for a total of 2 tomatoes.

Friday's harvest: Snow White(2).

Saturday's harvest: Snow White(1), Snow White(2), a front yard Green Grape and Old Ivory Egg for a total of 4 tomatoes.

No harvest done on Sunday.

Today's harvest: 10 Snow White(2) and Babywine for a total of 11 tomatoes.

My wife cut back the Sweet 100 over the Thanksgiving break. She was afraid to completely pull it out because of other plants in the pot. In essence it has been pulled out of the ground.

The Green Grape was a real surprise. I had found the tomato along the gravel path outside of the “koi pond” fence. Apparently it had been buffeted there by the winds we've been having over the last several days. I hadn't harvested a front yard Green Grape in 2 months. I had assumed it had no more tomatoes on it.

Our November harvest total ended up to be 181 tomatoes – 163 in the front yard, 18 in the back yard.

We've now harvested 11,116 tomatoes in 2009.