Harvested Over 6500 Tomatoes This Year!

Today's harvest includes 17 Snow White (front yard), 9 Principe Borghese, 3 Violet Jasper, 3 SunGold, 3 Yellow Perfection, 2 Black From Tula, 2 Husky Cherry Red, 2 Black Krim (8.5 ounces), Patio, SunSugar, Miss Elliotte Black, Poma Amoris Minora Lutea, Japanese Black Trifele, Red Currant(1), Big Pink, Green Zebra, Weeping Charlie, Black Oxheart, Dr. Wyche's Yellow(1), Marianna's Peace, Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart, Jaune Flamme(2), Thessaloniki, Azoychka/not Azoychka and Paul Robeson for a total of 58 tomatoes.

Several milestones were reached today. We've now harvested over 6500 tomatoes for the year (6508). And we've now harvested over 3000 tomatoes in the back yard (3021). And we've harvested over 400 front yard Snow White tomatoes (414).

But if you live in SoCal you know what what made yesterday memorable. It was hot! At Pierce College it got up to 109.6 degrees at 3:20 PM. It was over 109 at 2:30 in the afternoon, over 100 at noon. Need I say more?

And let me wish a happy birthday to my wonderful wife. Enjoy!

Harvested Over 1500 Tomatoes For August!

Today's harvest includes 22 Snow White (front yard), 5 Yellow Perfection, 3 Violet Jasper, 3 Principe Borghese, 3 Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart, 3 SunGold, 3 Snow White (back yard), 2 Enchantment, 2 Azoychka/not Azoychka, 2 Jaune Flamme(2), 2 Poma Amoris Minora Lutea, 2 Husky Cherry Red, Patio, Stupice, Aunt Ruby's German Green(1), Babywine, SunSugar, Topaz, Carmello, Red Currant(1), Red Currant(2), Jaune Flamme(1), Plum Tigris, Red Boar, Yellow Pear, Gajo de Melon, Black, Gypsy, Red Grape and Pineapple (8 ounces) for a total of 70 tomatoes.

My wife watered the back yard tomato plants last night.

Big Pink has a maturing tomato on it.

We've now harvested over 1500 tomatoes for August (1538)! It looks like we'll end up around 2000 harvested tomatoes for the month.

Harvested 200 Garden Peach Tomatoes This Year!

Today's harvest includes 28 SunGold, 6 White Currant, 4 Snow White (back yard), 4 Snow White (front yard), 3 Garden Peach, 2 Japanese Black Trifele, 2 Large Pink Anna (21.5 ounces, 7. 5 ounces), 2 Husky Cherry Red, 2 Babywine, 2 Red Currant(1), 2 Sara Black, 2 Nyagous, 2 Azoychka/not Azoychka, Thessaloniki, Gajo de Melon, Yellow Perfection, Brown Berry, Carmello, Principe Borghese, Stupice, Violet Jasper, Michael Pollan, SunSugar and Black Krim (7 ounces) for a total of 72 tomatoes.

I added another stake to Azoychka/not Azoychka and did some more tomato taping this morning.

My doctor asked me not to forget to bring him tomatoes the next time I visit him. That visit is this afternoon. I'll bring him today's harvest.

Last night my wife and I and a couple of friends (including our “seed lady”) were at the Dodger game last night. They lost 10 – 5.

We've now harvested over 2500 tomatoes from the front yard.

We've now harvested exactly 200 Garden Peach tomatoes this year. However, the plant is turning yellow and for the moment it doesn't look like it will produce too much more.

Harvest Numbers Falling Fast...

Today's harvest includes 28 SunGold, 7 White Currant, 6 Husky Cherry Red, 5 Babywine, 5 Garden Peach, 5 Snow White (front yard), 3 Azoychka/not Azoychka, 2 Red Grape, 2 Snow White (back yard), 2 Red Currant(1), 2 Brown Berry, 2 Japanese Black Trifele, 2 Poma Amoris Minora Lutea, 2 Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge, 2 Large Pink Anna (11 ounces), Michael Pollan, Principe Borghese, Red Currant(2), Sweet 100, Gajo de Melon, Toni's Round, Green Grape and Sara Black (7.5 ounces) for a total of 83 tomatoes.

I added a stake to the front yard Snow White and did a fair amount of tomato taping during the day.

The harvest numbers are dropping fast. I'm going to guess it has to do with the mild July (now August) weather we've been having. 10 days ago I harvested nearly three times the amount (243) we harvested today.

Still Below Normal Weather For July...

Today's harvest includes 57 SunGold, 19 White Currant, 12 Azoychka/not Azoychka, 9 Gajo de Melon, 8 Snow White (front yard), 5 Babywine, 5 Snow White (back yard), 5 Husky Cherry Red, 4 Jaune Flamme(2), 4 Poma Amoris Minora Lutea, 3 Garden Peach, 3 Japanese Black Trifele, 3 Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge (6 ounces, 10 ounces), 3 Persimmon (7 ounces, 6.5 ounces, 8 ounces), 3 Red Currant(1), 3 T. C. Jones, 2 Nyagous, 2 Paul Robeson, 2 Large Pink Anna (17 ounces, 22.5 ounces), 2 SunSugar, Stupice, Miss Elliotte Black, Sweetie, Taxi, Principe Borghese, Red Currant(2), Weeping Charlie, Green Zebra, Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart, Ananas Noire and Red Grape for a total of 165 tomatoes.

My wife watered the back yard tomato plants yesterday evening.

Two of the Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge tomatoes had a bit of a dark smudge on them!

The 22.5 ounce Large Pink Anna tomato is our heaviest tomato for 2010.

It only got up to 83 degrees yesterday. The low this morning was 51.6 degrees. Still more strangely cooler than normal July weather.

Harvested Over 4000 Tomatoes This Year!

Today's harvest includes 34 SunGold, 14 White Currant, 13 Garden Peach, 9 Azoychka/not Azoychka (I still do not know what this tomato is but it isn't Azoychka, that's for sure), 6 Snow White (front yard), 6 Poma Amoris Minora Lutea, 5 Red Currant(1), 4 Husky Cherry Red, 3 Japanese Black Trifele, 3 Babywine, 3 Snow White (back yard), 2 Red Grape, 2 Gajo de Melon, 2 Stupice, Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge, Aunt Ruby's German Green(1), Persimmon (6 ounces), Black Krim, Lyn's Mahogany Garnet, Principe Borghese, Chile Verde, Plum Tigris, Brown Berry, Red Boar, Green Zebra, Jaune Flamme(2), Gypsy, Paul Robeson, Nyagous and Large Pink Anna (19.5 ounces) for a total of 122 tomatoes.

Wow – just four days ago we were picking twice as many tomatoes. The tide is receding quickly!

We've now picked over 3500 tomatoes for the month of July (3548) and have harvested over 4000 tomatoes for the year (4085).

The harvested Large Pink Anna is our heaviest tomato harvested this year so far.

Again, the weather has been cooler than normal for July. I see several of the plants preparing for a second round of tomatoes.

Harvested Large Pink Anna!

Today's harvest includes 49 SunGold, 31 White Currant, 17 Garden Peach, 16 Husky Cherry Red, 7 Babywine, 6 Red Currant(1), 6 Green Zebra, 6 Snow White (front yard), 5 Nyagous, 4 Japanese Black Trifele (one 7.5 ounces), 4 Violet Jasper, 4 Snow White (back yard), 4 Azoychka/not Azoychka, 3 Jaune Flamme(2), 3 Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge (6 ounces, 7 ounces, 6 ounces), 3 Persimmon (one 6 ounces), 2 Poma Amoris Minora Lutea, 2 Black Krim (6 ounces), 2 Red Currant(2), 2 Green Grape, 2 Black From Tula, 2 Marianna's Peace, 2 Aunt Ruby's German Green(1) (8.5 ounces), 2 Principe Borghese, 2 Gajo de Melon, 2 Red Grape, Thessaloniki, Gypsy, Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart, Weeping Charlie, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, Taxi, Chile Verde, SunSugar, Dr. Wyche's Yellow(1) and Large Pink Anna (new, 11 ounces) for a total of 198 tomatoes.

The harvest total are a bit of a drop from yesterday's total of 243. That's a large enough drop that yesterday's 243 may be our high water mark for 2010.

I fertilized the container plants in the back yard and watered the whole back yard. I gave our compost pile a good soaking as well.

Harvested Over 3000 Tomatoes This Year!

Today's harvest includes 43 SunGold, 32 White Currant, 15 Garden Peach, 13 Snow White (back yard), 12 Husky Cherry Red, 7 Violet Jasper, 7 Babywine, 6 Red Grape, 6 Red Currant(1), 6 Red Currant(2), 6 Gajo de Melon, 6 Snow White (front yard), 6 Japanese Black Trifele, 4 Nyagous, 4 Marianna's Peace, 3 Poma Amoris Minora Lutea, 3 Black Krim (13 ounces, 7 ounces), 3 Black From Tula, 3 Zapotec Pleated, 3 Aunt Ruby's German Green(1) (12.5 ounces, 7.5 ounces, 10.5 ounces), 2 Jaune Flamme(2), 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow(2), 2 Pierce's Pride (6 ounces, 7 ounces), 2 Red Boar, 2 Principe Borghese, 2 Weeping Charlie (7 ounces), 2 SunSugar, 2 Persimmon (8 ounces, 8 ounces), 2 Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge (6 ounces), Patio, Michael Pollan, Miss Elliotte Black, Carmelo, Topaz, Plum Tigris, Green Grape, Yellow Perfection, Enchantment, Thessaloniki, Gypsy, Azoychka/not Azoychka and Black Oxheart (10.5 ounces) for a total of 219 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 3000 tomatoes for the year (3054) and over 2500 for the month (2571).

The image above is from yesterday's harvest. It weighed 11 pounds, 8 ounces.

The birds left us alone yesterday – no tomatoes lost to birds.

In spite of our high harvest totals, some of the tomato plants look picked over and exhausted. But with the weather on the cool side some of these plants will get a second wind.

Harvested Azoychka/Not Azoychka!

Today's harvest includes 36 SunGold, 16 White Currant, 13 Red Currant(2), 9 Violet Jasper, 9 Japanese Black Trifele, 8 Red Currant(1), 8 Red Grape, 7 Babywine, 7 Gajo de Melon, 4 Husky Cherry Red, 4 Snow White (front yard), 4 Snow White (back yard), 3 Dr. Wyche's Yellow(2), 3 Green Zebra, 3 Zapotec Pleated, 3 Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge (9 ounces, 9.5 ounces, 7.5 ounces), 2 Garden Peach, 2 SunSugar, 2 Black Krim (6 ounces, 11 ounces), 2 Principe Borghese, 2 Topaz, 2 Green Grape, 2 Pierce's Pride (10.5 ounces, 8 ounces), 2 Marianna's Peace, 2 Azoychka (new), 2 Poma Amoris Minorea Lutea, 2 Aunt Ruby's German Green (8 ounces, 6 ounces), Gypsy, Thessaloniki, Enchantment, Black From Tula, Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart (8 ounces), German Orange Strawberry (6 ounces), Dr. Wyche's Yellow(1) (9.5 ounces), Weeping Charlie (7 ounces), Lyn's Mahogany Garnet, Taxi, Nyagous, Sweetie and Carmelo for a total of 172 tomatoes.

As mentioned previously, the plant labeled Azoychka isn't Azoychka. Looking on the TomatoFest site, it's the size of Grape and the shape of San Marzano. I'll keep looking. Also, I may have harvested them a bit early. We may sacrifice these two to see how ripe they get.

There were some pretty good sized tomatoes in today's batch. You can see some of them in the above image of today's harvest.

The harvest numbers for Violet Jasper has been pretty consistent but we're actually running out of tomatoes on this plant. The numbers will drop and in all probability it will get a second wind around a month later.

The birds continue to pick off two or three tomatoes a day. Today they got to a Japanese Black Trifele and I believe Nyagous.

Yesterday was a mellow day for all. The backyard was cleaned up in the evening and everything is pretty much back to normal.

Four More Plants With New Tomatoes

There isn't much to say until we start harvesting. The chores are done.

The three seedlings with Ildi continue to grow slowly. Ildi is looking okay as well. If those three seedlings bear fruit and we plant Big Pink, we'd be managing 80 tomato plants.

I did more training this morning and noticed new tomatoes on four plants: Carmello (coincidentally – see last post), Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart, Black Zebra and Azoychka.

Last year our first harvested tomato occurred on May 23. I don't see any tomatoes in the process of ripening (though some Taxi tomatoes may be a few days away from that). Will we harvest in May?

Planted 8 More Tomatoes

Friday evening I planted Sara Black and Azoychka in the back yard before the sun set.

That same evening my wife noted that our seedlings grown from seed are not doing well at all.

Saturday I worked the TomatoMania event in Fillmore. That event simply wiped me out.

Sunday I planted Toni's Round and Paul Robeson in the back yard. In the “koi pond” I planted Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge, Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe (seedling), Black Krim and Kornesevsije (seedling). But my leg began to act up before I could complete the “koi pond” planting.

My goal was to plant out the “koi pond” with as many of our seedlings grown from seed as I could muster before the evening rains hit. The hope was to get them in the ground for nearly two weeks and then judge if they have taken hold. I'm due to work the TomatoMania event in Larchmont Village on the 24^th of this month and if the planted seedlings didn't show growth, I'd replace them with seedlings from this event. But I only got two of them in the ground. I'll have to wait a couple of days for the ground to dry out before planting more.

Some of the plants in the ground simply look amazing, such as Gypsy and Japanese Black Trifele. One of our beefsteaks planted on March 3 is nearly two feet tall.