Harvested Over 400 Snow White(1) Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 9 Snow White(1), 3 Italian Heirloom, 3 Neves Azorean Red (6 ounces), 2 Porkchop(1), 2 SunGold, 2 Black and Brown Boar(2), Pierce's Pride(1), Indigo Apple(1), Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Carmello, Husky Cherry Red(1), Husky Cherry Red(2), Thessaloniki, German Orange Strawberry, Delicious, Amazon Chocolate, Watermelon, Aunt Ruby's German Green and Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red for a total of 34 tomatoes

Copper River has a couple of maturing tomatoes! We should be harvesting this tomato by the end of the week.

We've now harvested over 500 tomatoes for September (510)! The back yard tomatoes are doing fine in spite of SunSugar and the two Black Cherry tomatoes being removed. The front yard tomatoes are almost done, save SunGold.

Also, we've harvested over 400 Snow White(1) tomatoes (401)! 

Harvested Over 2650 SunGold Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 8 Black Cherry(1), 7 Indigo Rose, 5 Husky Cherry Red(1), 4 Black Cherry(2), 4 Snow White(1), 4 Snow White(2), 4 Red Currant, 3 Red Boar(1), 3 SunGold, 3 Italian Heirloom, 2 Oaxacan Jewel, 2 Black and Brown Boar(2), 2 Noire Charbonneuse(2), 2 Indigo Apple(2), 2 Thessaloniki, 2 Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Pierce's Pride(1), Big Bite, Yellow Perfection, Amana Orange, Oaxacan Pink, Carmello, Marmara and Speckled Roman(3) for a total of 65 tomatoes.

No harvest on Wednesday. I had trouble getting to sleep on Tuesday night.

On Tuesday my wife pulled Black and Brown Boar(1) and Dr. Wyche's Yellow. Yesterday she pulled Crimson Cushion, Taxi, Tolstoi and SunSugar. Pulling SunSugar was a surprise because it still had some life but she indicated that she wanted the terra cotta pots for growing lettuce. She's the one keepting the plants alive with her watering so if she wants to pull it that's good enough for me.

Also, several plants were trimmed. And the back yard tomatoes were partially watered.

We've now harvested over 2650 SunGold tomatoes (2652)! Also, we've harvested over 50 Noire Charbonneuse(2) tomatoes (51). 

Harvested 50 Gypsy Tomatoes This Year!

Today's harvest includes 12 Thessaloniki, 8 Black Cherry(2), 5 Black Cherry(1), 4 Yellow Perfection, 4 Red Currant, 3 SunGold, 3 Japanese Black Trifele, 3 Marmara, 3 Snow White(2), 3 Indigo Rose, 3 Snow White(1), 2 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, 2 Oaxacan Jewel, 2 Indigo Apple(2), 2 Red Boar(2), 2 SunSugar, 2 Husky Cherry Red(1), Indigo Apple(1), Black and Brown Boar(1), Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Big Bite, Carmello, Husky Cherry Red(2), Marianna's Peace (11 ounces), Noire Charbonneuse(2), Pineapple(2) and Gypsy for a total of 74 tomatoes.

Thessaloniki is going through a second wave. We didn't harvest Thessaloniki from July 31 to August 12. August 13, 1 tomato. 5 more empty days, then 1 tomato on August 19. Since August 22 we've harvested 35 Thessaloniki tomatoes, at least 1 every day, 19 over the last two days.

We've traded tomatoes with friends over the last several weeks and have received figs and peaches in return.

Yesterday's high: 93.7. That's okay. And it was clearly cooler at night.

It's not clear why the harvest nearly doubled today. It just is.

We've now harvested 50 Gypsy tomatoes this year! When we've tasted Gypsy this year we've liked it. 

Pulled Out Four More Tomato Plants

Today's harvest includes 6 Indigo Rose, 4 Black Cherry(1), 4 SunGold, 4 Husky Cherry Red(1), 3 Japanese Black Trifele, 3 Snow White(1), 3 Yellow Perfection, 2 Gypsy, 2 Redfield Beauty, 2 Snow White(1), 2 Thessaloniki, Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Marmara, Carmello, Husky Cherry Red(2), Black Cherry(2), Indigo Apple(2) and Green Grape for a total of 42 tomatoes.

My wife pulled out Pink Furry Boar, Chinese Tea, Nyagous(1) and Vorlon. She also watered half the back yard tomatoes and the container plants in the back yard.

We've harvested 550 SunGold tomatoes this month (551) and 150 Husky Cherry Red(1) tomatoes in August, but I'm grasping for milestones now.

More plants will get pulled tomorrow. 

Harvested 100 Carmello Tomatoes This Year!

Today's harvest includes 15 SunGold, 10 Carmello, 9 Snow White(2), 7 Black Cherry(1), 6 Red Currant, 3 Oaxacan Pink, 3 Indigo Rose, 3 Big Bite, 3 Yellow Perfection, 3 Husky Cherry Red(1), 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow, 2 Oaxacan Jewel (7 ounces), 2 Redfield Beauty, 2 Red Boar(1), 2 Thessaloniki, Indigo Apple(1), Pineapple(1) (8.5 ounces), Nyagous(1), Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Brad's Black Heart (6.5 ounces), Pink Furry Boar, Snow White(1), Black and Brown Boar(2), Purple Dog Creek, Delicious, Black Cherry(2), Amana Orange, Noire Charbonneuse(2) and Tolstoi for a total of 86 tomatoes.

My wife pulled Pineapple Pig, Yellow Furry Boar, Red Boar(2) and Porkchop(2). My wife spotted the tomato on Yellow Furry Boar but declared it as not worth saving and pulled the plant.

If you'll notice, all four tomatoes were developed at Wild Boar Farms. Wild Boar Farms has some tremendous varieties and we will always grow tomatoes developed there, but the plants simply do not last in the heat of the San Fernando Valley.

Carmello is going through a second wind, as well as Red Currant to a lesser degree.

Also, my wife watered all of the back yard tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 700 Black Cherry(1) tomatoes (706) and 100 Carmello tomatoes this year. 

Harvested Over 2000 Tomatoes In The Back Yard This Month!

Today's harvest includes 20 SunGold, 11 Black Cherry(1), 5 Red Currant, 5 Carmello, 4 Big Bite, 4 Snow White(1), 4 Snow White(2), 4 Oaxacan Jewel (7 ounces, 9 ounces), 4 Oaxacan Pink, 4 Yellow Perfection, 3 Dr. Wyche's Yellow, 2 Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, 2 Husky Cherry Red(1), 2 Indigo Rose, 2 Jaune Flamme(2), Husky Cherry Red(2), Indigo Apple(1), Ella's Pink Plum, Pink Furry Boar, Thessaloniki, German Orange Strawberry, Speckled Roman(3), Delicious, Gypsy, Marmara, SunSugar and Green Grape for a total of 88 tomatoes.

My wife pulled out Speckled Roman(1) yesterday. And she continues to make sauce and freeze it, as well as give away some to friends and family.

I added tomato fertilizer to the container plants this morning.

Yellow Furry Boar has one more tomato to mature so it's spared the chopping block for now. But Jaune Flamme(2) can go.

We've now harvested over 2000 tomatoes in the back yard this month (2013)! 

Harvested 50 Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg Tomatoes

Today's harvest includes 13 Black Cherry(1), 8 SunGold, 7 Husky Cherry Red(1), 4 Snow White(2), 4 Carmello, 3 Big Bite, 3 Nyagous(1), 3 Snow White(1), 3 Oaxacan Pink (6 ounces, 7 ounces), 2 Red Currant, 2 Husky Cherry Red(2), 2 Yellow Perfection, 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow, 2 SunSugar, 2 Indigo Apple(2), 2 Red Boar(1), Speckled Roman(1), Indigo Apple(1), Japanese Black Trifele, Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Pink Furry Boar, Amazon Chocolate, Marmara and Gypsy for a total of 70 tomatoes.

My wife pulled out Kellogg's Breakfast and Speckled Roman(2). She also completed watering the front yard.

Yesterday's high: 96.6. The heat wave is receding. Not so coincidentally, our harvest numbers are dropping pretty rapidly as well.

Pineapple Pig, Speckled Roman(1), Red Boar(2) and Yellow Furry Boar can also be pulled.

We've now harvested 2550 SunGold and 50 Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg tomatoes. 

Harvested Over 100 Indigo Rose Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 21 Black Cherry(1), 16 SunGold, 14 Snow White(2), 11 Husky Cherry Red(1), 10 Husky Cherry Red(2), 9 Snow White(1), 7 SunSugar, 5 Yellow Perfection, 5 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, 4 Indigo Apple(2), 4 Indigo Rose, 3 Carmello, 2 Speckled Roman(3), 2 Pink Furry Boar, 2 Nyagous(1), 2 Red Boar(2), 2 Redfield Beauty, 2 Red Boar(1), 2 Ella's Pink Plum, 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow, 2 Indigo Apple(1), Kellogg's Breakfast, Chinese Tea, Oaxacan Pink, Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Sweet Million, Red Currant, Big Bite, Pineapple Pig, German Orange Strawberry (7.5 ounces), Japanese Black Trifele, Neves Azorean Red (15 ounces), Italian Heirloom (9 ounces), Amazon Chocolate, Noire Charbonneuse(2), Watermelon (7 ounces), Pineapple(2) (22 ounces), Gypsy, Marmara, Taxi and Tolstoi for a total of 147 tomatoes.

Yesterday's high: 103.2. It's still hot!

I noticed a flaw in the on line spreadsheet yesterday. The amount of harvested Neves Azorean Red was too high. I found the flaw and fixed it. The July numbers adjusted downward. The original reported amount of 6088 plummeted to...6068.

What a beautiful Pineapple(2)! I don't think I've pulled such a heavy tomato this late in the season. This tomato buried the pretty 15 ounce Neves Azorean Red, another good tomato.

We have more plants to pull.

I don't plan to harvest tomorrow.

We've now harvested over 850 Husky Cherry Red(1) tomatoes (857), over 100 Indigo Rose tomatoes (101) and 50 Speckled Roman(3) tomatoes this year. 

Harvested Over 8000 Tomatoes This Year!

Today's harvest includes 28 SunGold, 13 Snow White(2), 8 Snow White(1), 5 Sweet Million, 3 Sweet 100, 3 Chinese Tea, 3 Delicious, 3 Black Cherry(1), 3 Black Cherry(2), 3 SunSugar, 3 Sweet Baby Girl, 3 Husky Cherry Red(1), 2 Speckled Roman(3), 2 Husky Cherry Red(2), 2 Redfield Beauty, 2 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, 2 White Zebra, 2 Nyagous(2) (not Nyagous), 2 Big Zebra (8.5 ounces, 11 ounces), Black Krim(1) (8 ounces), Kellogg's Breakfast, Porkchop(1), Indigo Apple(1), Oaxacan Jewel (8 ounces), Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Ella's Pink Plum, Creme Brulee, Pineapple Pig (8 ounces), Pink Furry Boar, Crimson Cushion, Italian Heirloom, Amazon Chocolate, Noire Charbonneuse(2), Marmara, Red Boar(1), Ramapo (7 ounces), Jaune Flamme(2) and Porkchop(2) for a total of 111 tomatoes.

My wife watered some of the back yard tomatoes yesterday. Short of that, it got up to 106.7 at Pierce College so there's not much that could have been done without a lot of effort.

It looks like a couple more tomato plants can go (Big Zebra, Nyagous(2)) and others not far behind (Creme Brulee). While doing the harvest I broke a large Husky Cherry Red(2) branch that was laying in the pathway. Darn it..

We hit several 2012 numbers today. We've now harvested over 8000 tomatoes for the year (8038), over 5000 tomatoes from the back yard this year (5033) and over 3000 tomatoes from the front yard (3005)!

We've now harvested over 1000 tomatoes for August (1086). Also, we've now harvested over 100 Snow White(2) tomatoes (107) for the year. 

Harvested Over 6000 Tomatoes This Year!

Today's harvest includes 40 SunGold, 33 Black Cherry(1), 28 Husky Cherry Red(1), 16 Husky Cherry Red(2), 8 Black Cherry(2), 8 Snow White(1), 6 Indigo Rose, 6 Black and Brown Boar(2), 6 Yellow Perfection, 6 Snow White(2), 5 Pink Furry Boar, 5 SunSugar, 5 Garden Peach, 5 Nyagous(2) (not Nyagous), 4 Green Grape, 4 Amazon Chocolate (7.5 ounces, 8 ounces), 4 Thessaloniki (7 ounces), 3 Creme Brulee (6 ounces, 6 ounces), 3 Redfield Beauty, 3 Black Krim(2), 2 Speckled Roman(2), 2 Brown Berry, 2 Black and Brown Boar(1), 2 Earl of Edgecombe, 2 Marmara (6 ounces, 6 ounces), 2 Noire Charbonneuse(2), 2 Speckled Roman(3), 2 Yellow Furry Boar, 2 Crimson Cushion, Marianna's Peace (16 ounces), Chinese Tea, Watermelon (8 ounces), Black Krim(1) (8 ounces), Nebraska Wedding (9 ounces), Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(2), Jaune Flamme(1), Indigo Apple(1), Big Zebra, Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Japanese Black Trifele, Taxi, Purple Dog Creek (10.5 ounces), Persimmon (11 ounces), Red Boar(2) and Jaune Flamme(2) for a total of 232 tomatoes.

I'm a little surprised that the numbers have stayed as solid for this long. SunGold is finally starting to fade but the two Black Cherry and the two Snow White plants have picked up the slack.

The tomato sizes are starting to dwindle and the plants are looking ragged. Noire Charbonneuse(1), Chinese Tea and Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(2) may not last much longer. However, many plants will have a second wind. Sweet Baby Girl already has a second wind and has maturing tomatoes again.

My wife watered the back yard containers.

We've now harvested over 3000 tomatoes in the back yard for the month of July (3151) and over 6000 tomatoes for the year (6187). 

Harvested 7 New Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 75 SunGold, 37 Husky Cherry Red(1), 34 Husky Cherry Red(2), 9 Black Cherry(1), 9 Yellow Perfection, 7 Jaune Flamme(1), 7 Garden Peach, 7 Red Currant, 6 Yellow Currant, 6 Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg (6 ounces, 10.5 ounces), 5 SunSugar, 4 Noire Charbonneuse(1), 4 Carmello, 4 Green Grape, 4 Black and Brown Boar(1), 4 Speckled Roman(2) (9 ounces, 6.5 ounces), 3 Black Krim(2) (8 ounces, 7 ounces, 16 ounces), 3 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (11.5 ounces, 19.5 ounces, 11.5 ounces), 3 Pink Furry Boar, 3 Black Krim(1) (9.5 ounces), 3 Nyagous(2) (not Nyagous), 2 Porkchop(2) (new) (6 ounces, 6 ounces), 2 Purple Dog Creek (new) (14.5 ounces, 11.5 ounces), 2 Red Boar(1) (new) (6 ounces), 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(1) (9 ounces, 8.5 ounces), 2 Chinese Tea, 2 Redfield Beauty, 2 Noire Charbonneuse(2), 2 Brad's Black Heart (9.5 ounces, 9 ounces), 2 Snow White(1), 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(2) (8 ounces, 7 ounces), 2 Tolstoi, 2 Japanese Black Trifele (9 ounces), 2 Indigo Apple(1), 2 Indigo Rose, 2 Black Cherry(2), 2 Crimson Cushion, 2 Watermelon (6 ounces, 10 ounces), 2 Oaxacan Jewel (11.5 ounces, 19.5 ounces), White Zebra (new), Delicious (new) (8 ounces), Porkchop(1) (new) (7.5 ounces), Pineapple(1) (new) (15 ounces), Sweet Million, Jaune Flamme(2), Sweet 100, Pierce's Pride(2) (6.5 ounces), Big Bite (10 ounces), Black From Tula (8 ounces), Indigo Apple(2), Oaxacan Pink (8. 5 ounces), Creme Brulee and Speckled Roman(3) (6 ounces) for a total of 287 tomatoes.

This is what "high tide" looks like. What a harvest!

My wife now has a part time job just processing all the tomatoes. You name it, she's making it. She spent most of the day filling up 6 quart jars of tomatoes.

I showed my wife the harvested Oaxacan Pink and she believes for now there's a difference between the labeled Oaxacan Pink and Oaxacan Jewel. We'll see.

There are so many good looking tomatoes in today's batch I don't even know where to begin.

Maturing tomatoes include Nebraska Wedding and a yellowing tomato I have yet to identify.

We've now harvested over 1000 SunGold tomatoes this year (1004) and over 400 Husky Cherry Red(1) tomatoes (409). Also, we've harvested over 1000 tomatoes from the front yard in July (1021) and over 3000 overall for the year (3186).
 

Harvested Vorlon and Chile Verde!

Today's harvest includes 56 SunGold, 19 Husky Cherry Red(1), 14 Husky Cherry Red(2), 9 Carmello (7 ounces), 6 Red Currant, 6 SunSugar, 5 Black and Brown Boar(1) (6 ounces), 5 Oaxacan Jewel (10 ounces, 12 ounces, 18.5 ounces, 16.5 ounces, 14 ounces), 4 Yellow Currant, 4 Giant Syrian (16 ounces, 12 ounces, 19.5 ounces, 8 ounces), 4 Chinese Tea, 4 Yellow Perfection, 4 Japanese Black Trifele (9.5 ounces), 4 Jaune Flamme(1), 3 Noire Charbonneuse(1), 3 Crimson Cushion, 2 Chile Verde (new), 2 Green Grape, 2 Green Zebra, 2 Nyagous(2) (not Nyagous), 2 Indigo Apple(1), 2 Black Cherry(1), 2 Thessaloniki, 2 Jaune Flamme(2), 2 Garden Peach, 2 Indigo Apple(2), 2 Black Krim(2) (7.5 ounces), 2 Black From Tula (8 ounces, 9 ounces), 2 Nyagous(1), 2 Brown Berry, 2 Pink Furry Boar, Vorlon (new), Berkeley Tie Dye, Speckled Roman(2), Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Matt's Wild Cherry, Pierce's Pride(2), Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(1), Big Bite, Indigo Rose, Pineapple Pig (10.5 ounces), Brad's Black Heart (7 ounces), Black and Brown Boar(2), Snow White(1), Black Cherry(2) and Tolstoi for a total of 195 tomatoes.

Yesterday Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(1) was leaning into the lemon tree. So during yesterday's harvest I propped it back to be straight off the ground. Mistake! My wife reported that it had fallen completely to the ground later in the day. She later picked it up and propped it against the Pinapple(1) tomato. I staked it in this morning.

Speaking of which, I was able to point out the half-eaten remains of a Pineapple(1) tomato to my wife. She later disposed it. We looked at Black Cherry(1). I think we'll end up adding a concrete reinforcing wire support trellis for it in the future. Meanwhile it's still doubled over.

Maturing tomatoes include Purple Dog Creek and Delicious. I almost pulled Delicious today so I'll assume it will be ready tomorrow. I know there are other maturing tomatoes.

The two Chile Verde tomatoes look great! The trouble, though, is these are the only two tomatoes on the plant.

Here's an image of today's harvest.

We've now harvested over 1500 back yard tomatoes for the year (1586) and over harvested 2500 tomatoes (2684) this year.
 

Harvested 4 New Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 74 SunGold, 10 Husky Cherry Red(1), 7 Yellow Currant, 6 Husky Cherry Red(2), 4 Yellow Perfection, 4 SunSugar, 4 Green Grape, 3 Nyagous(1), 3 Speckled Roman(1) (6 ounces, 9 ounces), 3 Carmello (6 ounces, 6 ounces), 3 Crimson Cushion (6 ounces), 3 Jaune Flamme(2), 2 Pineapple Pig (new) (11 ounces), 2 Japanese Black Trifele (new) (7.5 ounces), 2 Red Currant, 2 Redfield Beauty, 2 Jaune Flamme(1), 2 Sweet Million, 2 Black Cherry(2), 2 Ella's Pink Plum, 2 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (13 ounces, 7.5 ounces), Italian Heirloom (new) (9 ounces), Noire Charbonneuse(2) (new), Chinese Tea, Berkeley Tie Dye (18 ounces), Black and Brown Boar(1), Oaxacan Jewel, Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Matt's Wild Cherry, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(2) (8 ounces), Big Bite (6.5 ounces), Black Krim(2) (8.5 ounces), Thessaloniki (6 ounces), Garden Peach and Yellow Furry Boar for a total of 156 tomatoes.

Yesterday my wife made another tomato salad for a barbeque party in the evening. She cut up Garden Peach and Oaxacan Jewel and some other red tomato, mozzarella cheese and dressing. The Garden Peach was good but the Oaxacan Jewel was nothing short of fabulous.

The larger Pineapple Pig harvested today is a beautiful tomato. I know my wife will put that one to the side. The Japanese Black Trifele looks great as well.

For some reason today was "throw rotten tomatoes in the garbage" day. The two maturing White Zebra tomatoes were hopelessly flawed and thrown away. Two Dr. Wyche's Yellow tomatoes had bad flaws. One could be salvaged and I kept that one but the other one was too far gone. There was a large tomato on the ground in the "moat" (Persimmon?) badly decaying. It took two paper towels to get most of it out.

Pink Furry Boar is maturing. In fact there was another, more mature Pink Furry Boar tomato with two bites out of it that needed tossing as well.

Here's an image of our dog in and among the tomato plants in the back yard cutout:

We've now harvested over 1000 tomatoes for the month of July (1014). 

Harvested 3 New Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 37 SunGold, 15 Husky Cherry Red(1), 13 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 Green Grape, 7 Crimson Cushion (6.5 ounces, 7 ounces, 6 ounces, 7 ounces), 6 SunSugar, 6 Yellow Perfection, 5 Red Currant, 5 Matt's Wild Cherry, 4 Dr. Wyche's Yellow (8.5 ounces, 10.5 ounces, 26.5 ounces, 11 ounces), 4 Yellow Currant, 3 Snow White(1), 3 Nyagous(1), 2 Chinese Tea, 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(2) (7.5 ounces, 6.5 ounces), 2 Sweet Million, 2 Redfield Beauty, 2 Carmello, Berkeley Tie Dye (new) (17.5 ounces), Garden Peach (new), Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg (new), Black and Brown Boar(1), Ella's Pink Plum, Big Bite, Black Krim(2), Black From Tula (6 ounces), Giant Syrian (12 ounces) and Indigo Rose for a total of 135 tomatoes.

That's not a misprint, we picked a Dr. Wyche's Yellow that weighed more than one and a half pounds. Our record to date was a Mexico tomato that came in at 30 ounces.

Here's an image of today's harvest:

The pile in the lower left are the Crimson Cushions. The yellow row on the right are the Dr. Wyche's Yellow tomatoes. The beautiful Berkeley Tie Dye is next to the postal scale used to weigh the tomatoes. The back left has the two Pink Berkeley Tie Dye(2) tomatoes. And behind it is Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg.

Speaking of which, we had another small taste test this morning for breakfast. We tried Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg, Green Zebra, Yellow Furry Boar and Indigo Apple. Olga's Round Yellow Chicken Egg was the winner of this bunch. We harvested it at just the right time and the flavor really popped. Green Zebra and Indigo Apple were both good. The loser was Yellow Furry Boar. But there's no point in describing what was wrong with it because we simply tried it too late. We harvested it maybe a day too late but took three days to sample it from there. It gets a pass.

Yesterday my in-laws came over while I was at work. They brought our dog back (My wife had dropped our dog off with her parents before the 4th so we could enjoy dinner with some out of town friends that evening. You shouldn't leave a dog alone with fireworks going off everywhere...) and spent the afternoon with my wife. They loved the tomato sauce my wife made.

During the visit the dehydrator was brought out of the garage and set up. Many tomatoes were cut up and placed in the dehydrator. The contraption was left on over night and the tomato slices slowly dried. Here's an image from today:

Maturing tomatoes include Black Krim(1), White Zebra, Speckled Roman(3) and Italian Heirloom.

We've now havested more tomatoes as of July 7 (858) than we did in all of June (842).

And we've harvested over 500 SunGold tomatoes this year (512). 

Eight More Plants With Tomatoes!

Today's harvest: Husky Cherry Red(1).

Yesterday evening I spent a lot of time training as many tomato plants as I could. I got a close look almost all the tomato plants. From that I discovered more plants with tomatoes.

A partial list includes Noire Charbonneuse(1), Oaxacan Jewel, Olga's Round Yellow Chicken, Garden Peach, Black Krim(2), Earl of Edgecombe, Jaune Flamme(2) and Black and Brown Boar(1).

Today my wife and I made six more cages from concrete reinforcing wire. We replaced some of the weaker cages with the new tomato cages. We took out the weaker cages. There was some minor damage done when removing the cages but we believe it is not serious.

The weaker cages were mostly "leggy". We cut them down to size and used these cut down cages on the container plants. We replaced the original cages and again there was some minor damage. For instance, I knocked a tomato off of the Taxi tomato plant. 

Catching Up...

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.

Fading Away...

Today's harvest: Piccolo, Evan's Italian Plum and Olga's Round Yellow Chicken.

Not much to report, as you can see. But this is typical for this time of year, given that the valley is so hot.

It looks like I'll have Black From Tula pulled this weekend.

Reached 4300 tomatoes!

Saturday's harvest totals were 3 Stupices, 2 Thessalonikis, 2 Piccolos, 2 Black Cherries, Cherokee Chocolate, Olga's Round Yellow Chicken and Old Ivory Egg.

On Friday night, I found a caterpillar on Pierce's Pride. While picking on Saturday, I finally found a caterpillar on Aker's Plum.

Paul Robeson was pulled.

We reached over the 4300 tomato mark for the year.

Planted Oregon Spring...

And today's haul includes 4 Piccolos, 3 Cherokee Chocolates, 2 Italian Market Wonders, Green Grape, Evan's Italian Plum, Olga's Round Yellow Chicken, Kimberly, Stupice and Black Cherry.

I forgot to mention that as part of Sunday's gardening, my wife cut back the Lime Green Salad in the "koi pond" to almost nothing. Two years ago she did a similar thing and this plant came back! We have since found out that this plant is semi-determinate, which explains the behavior we saw.

I planted the Oregon Spring tomato last night.

Kimberly Is Coming Back...

Saturday's harvest included 4 Piccolos, 2 Kimberlys, Cherokee Chocolate, Italian Market Wonder, Olga's Round Yellow Chicken, Zhezha (back yard) and Stupice.

I did a couple of minor repairs to a couple tomato plants in the morning. Later in the afternoon, we brought some of these and other tomatoes to our seed lady.