2011 Harvest Analysis

Here's the yearly harvests...

2007 - 10990 tomatoes, 33 tomato plants
2008 - 4503 tomatoes, 52 tomato plants
2009 - 11155 tomatoes, 61 tomato plants
2010 - 8092 tomatoes, 77 tomato plants
2011 - 9178 tomatoes, 77 tomato plants

The total harvest came in 3rd place out of 5 years, right in the middle of the pack.

As mentioned on other posts, we were quite happy with the taste of this year's harvest. Porkchop, Vorlon, Hungarian Heart and Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red were some of this year's highlights. Porkchop, when harvested at the right time, was the best tomato I've eaten in maybe three years. Hungarian Heart was my wife's favorite this year.

But you can see why 2007 was an awesome year. 2nd place in harvest totals with less than half the plants of the past two years. That's what happens when you dig out a trench in the front yard, wheelbarrow the dug dirt in the back yard and replace with nearly pure compost.

Time and money permitting, we'll add a lot of compost over the next month or so.

Here's the top 10 harvest totals per tomato this year:

Matt's Wild Cherry -- 2727 (highest total all time!)
Snow White -- 944
SunGold(1) -- 623
Husky Cherry Red(2) -- 591
SunSugar -- 378
Husky Cherry Red(1) -- 323
Garden Peach -- 318
Haley's Purple Comet -- 216
Sweet Carneros Pink -- 202
Golden Mama -- 192

We're looking forward to 2012! 

Harvested 2700 Matt's Wild Cherry Tomatoes!

No harvest done on Wednesday -- it was raining!

Thursday's harvest includes 6 Matt's Wild Cherry, 3 SunGold(1), Jaune Flamme, Patio, Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Sweet Carneros Pink and Husky Gold for a total of 14 tomatoes.

Friday's harvest includes 3 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 SunGold(1), Michael Pollan and Dr. Wyche's Yellow for a total of 7 tomatoes.

Saturday's harvest includes 4 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 SunGold(1), Patio, Michael Pollan and Aunt Ruby's German Green(3) for a total of 9 tomatoes.

Sunday's harvest includes 2 SunGold(1), 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, Jaune Flamme, Husky Cherry Red(2) and Michael Pollan for a total of tomatoes.

We visited with Winnetka Farms, got some advice on compost and bought some seeds.

Today's harvest includes 2 Jaune Flamme, 2 Matt's Wild Cherry, SunGold(1) and Stupice for a total of 6 tomatoes.

We've now harvested 2700 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes! A remarkable total.

More plants are ready to be pulled (five or six), it's just a matter of time and room in our green recycle bin before we pull them.

We've found several hormworms on SunGold(1). The plant is so thick it's also acting as a "grasshopper hotel". 

Pulled Out Eight More Tomato Plants

No harvest yesterday.

Today's harvest includes 3 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 Patio, 2 Honkin' Big Black Cherry, SunGold(1), Green Zebra(1) (picked yesterday evening), Large Pink Anna(1), Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Sweet Carneros Pink, Green Doctors Kiwi(2), Husky Gold and Aunt Ruby's German Green(3) for a total of 15 tomatoes.

Yesterday evening I pulled out Green Zebra(1) and Golden Mama in the front yard. Only three tomato plants are left in the front yard. In the back yard I pulled SunGold(2), Pineapple, Red Zebra, Green Grape, Chocolate Stripes(1) and Aunt Ruby's German Green(1).

We just passed the 8800 harvest total for the year (8807) but due to the weakness of Matt's Wild Cherry, reaching 9000 for the year may me a stretch. 

Harvested 200 Sweet Carneros Pink Tomatoes!

Saturday's harvest includes 3 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 SunSugar, SunGold(1), Golden Mama, Jaune Flamme, Orange And Green Zebra and Green Doctors Kiwi(2) for a total of 10 tomatoes.

Sunday's harvest includes 4 SunGold(1), 4 Matt's Wild Cherry, Green Grape, Sweet Carneros Pink, Green Doctors Kiwi(2) and Husky Gold for a total of 12 tomatoes.

Today's harvest includes 5 Matt's Wild Cherry, 4 SunGold(1) and Sweet Carneros Pink for a total of 10 tomatoes.

We've now harvested 200 Sweet Carneros Pink tomatoes!

As you can tell, our harvest has dropped dramatically. Dribs and drabs now.

We picked up some great tomatoes from our local farmer's market grown by Tutti Fruitti Farms in Lompoc, California. Highly recommended! 

Pulled Four More Tomato Plants

Monday's harvest includes 7 Matt's Wild Cherry, Golden Mama, Jaune Flamme and Husky Gold for a total of 10 tomatoes.

Tuesday's harvest includes 8 Matt's Wild Cherry, 3 Jaune Flamme, 2 SunGold(1), SunSugar, Sweet Carneros Pink and Kellogg's Breakfast for a total of 17 tomatoes.

Wednesday's harvest includes 4 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 Jaune Flamme and Stupice for a total of 7 tomatoes.

I added fertilizer to the back yard container plants.

Thursday's harvest includes 6 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 SunGold(1), Green Grape, Orange And Green Zebra, Garden Peach and Pineapple for a total of 12 tomatoes.

I pulled out four more tomato plants: Big Zebra, Neves Azorean Red, Garden Peach and Green Doctors Kiwi(1) (not Green Doctors Kiwi).

We've now harvested 8700 tomatoes for the year!

Today's harvest includes 4 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 Orange And Green Zebra, Aunt Ruby's German Green(3), SunSugar and SunGold(1) for a total of 9 tomatoes. 

Harvested Over 2550 Matt's Wild Cherry Tomatoes!

Thursday's harvest includes 8 Matt's Wild Cherry, 4 Sweet Carneros Pink, 3 Michael Pollan, 3 Yellow Brandywine, 2 Porkchop, 2 Crimson Cushion(2), 2 Husky Cherry Red(2), SunGold(1), Oaxacan Jewel(2) and Aunt Ruby's German Green(3) for a total of 27 tomatoes.

Today's harvest and some of prior harvests were used in a salad for dinner.

Friday's harvest includes 8 Matt's Wild Cherry, 5 Garden Peach, 3 Porkchop, 3 Sweet Carneros Pink, 2 Oaxacan Jewel(2), Husky Cherry Red(2), SunGold(1), Golden Mama and Michael Pollan for a total of 25 tomatoes.

Today's harvest includes 5 Matt's Wild Cherry, 2 Sweet Carneros Pink, 2 Husky Cherry Red(2), 2 Golden Mama, 2 SunGold(1), Vorlon, Jaune Flamme, Michael Pollan, Orange And Green Zebra, Garden Peach, Dr. Wyche's Yellow and Crimson Cushion(2) for a total of 20 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 2550 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (2554)!

Production has fallen dramatically due to the heat wave earlier this week. There are more plants to pull. Welcome to the dregs of fall!

It looks like we'll harvest around 9000 tomatoes this year. A good, tasty year. 

Harvested 300 Garden Peach Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 7 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 SunGold(1), 7 Matt's Wild Cherry, 4 Sweet Carneros Pink, 2 Porkchop, 2 Garden Peach, 2 Coyote (not Coyote), Neves Azorean Red, Haley's Purple Comet, Golden Mama, Jaune Flamme, Patio, SunSugar, Orange And Green Zebra, Big White Pink Stripe, Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Oaxacan Jewel(2) and Yellow Brandywine for a total of 42 tomatoes.

We've now harvested exactly 300 Garden Peach tomatoes! Also, we've harvested exactly 100 Jaune Flamme tomatoes.

Sweet Carneros Pink is over it's second wind.

It's hot out there!! Yesterday got up to 100.5 degrees and today should be hotter. 

Harvested Over 2500 Matt's Wild Cherry Tomatoes!

No harvest done yesterday.

Several plants were pulled on Saturday. They included Husky Cherry Red(1), Hungarian Heart, Australian Giant Oxheart, Sweet 100, Black Krim(1), Snow White and Persimmon(2).

Today's harvest includes 26 Matt's Wild Cherry, 15 Husky Cherry Red(2), 14 Sweet Carneros Pink, 6 Orange And Green Zebra, 5 Dr. Wyche's Yellow, 4 Porkchop, 4 Crimson Cushion(2), 3 Yellow Brandywine, 3 Aunt Ruby's German Green(3), 3 Coyote (not Coyote), 2 Neves Azorean Red, 2 Garden Peach, 2 Michael Pollan, 2 Aunt Ruby's German Green(1), Persimmon(1), SunGold(1), Jaune Flamme, Patio, SunSugar, Kellogg's Breakfast, Golden Mama and Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red for a total of 99 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 2500 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (2513)! I'm a little surprised at the amount of Matt's Wild Cherry pulled today -- the plant is picked over and preparing for another wind. The plant still looks good. 3000 harvested tomatoes is not out of the question.

Also, we've harvested over 550 Husky Cherry Red(2) tomatoes (562)!

It was sad to see Snow White go but the plant has been dead for some time. 

Harvested Over 4500 Front Yard Tomatoes For The Year!

Today's harvest includes 16 Sweet Carneros Pink, 13 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 Matt's Wild Cherry, 3 Sweet 100, 3 Yellow Brandywine, 2 Stupice, 2 Aunt Ruby's German Green(3) (6 ounces), 2 Jaune Flamme, 2 Kellogg's Breakfast, Snow White, Oaxacan Jewel(2), Large Pink Anna(1), Green Grape, Vorlon, Porkchop, Haley's Purple Comet, SunGold(1), Golden Mama, Orange And Green Zebra, Pineapple, Garden Peach, Red Zebra and Crimson Cushion(2) for a total of 64 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 4500 front yard tomatoes for the year (4514)! In spite of that, the back yard total is now larger than the front yard harvest by a few tomatoes a day.

We've now harvested over 150 Sweet Carneros Pink tomatoes (155)! 

Sweet Carneros Pink Having a Second Wind

Thursday's harvest includes 11 Matt's Wild Cherry, 10 Sweet Carneros Pink, 9 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 Snow White, 5 SunGold(1), 4 Stupice, 3 Orange And Green Zebra, 3 Kellogg's Breakfast, 2 Jaune Flamme, 2 Yellow Brandywine, 2 Coyote (not Coyote), 2 Red Zebra, 2 Vorlon, 2 Neves Azorean Red, 2 Porkchop, Green Zebra(1), Haley's Purple Comet, Persimmon(1), Golden Mama, Green Grape, Big White Pink Stripe, Garden Peach, Black Krim(1) and Aunt Ruby's German Green(3) (6 ounces) for a total of 75 tomatoes.

I added fertilizer to the back yard container plants. Also, I passed out bags of tomatoes to a couple friends of ours.

Today's harvest includes 12 Sweet Carneros Pink, 11 Matt's Wild Cherry, 7 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 SunGold(1), 5 Snow White, 4 Garden Peach, 4 Kellogg's Breakfast, 3 Orange And Green Zebra, 3 Stupice, 3 Coyote (not Coyote), 2 Persimmon (8 ounces), 2 Michael Pollan, 2 Crimson Cushion(2), Large Pink Anna(1), Green Doctor's Kiwi(1) (not Green Doctor's Kiwi), Big White Pink Stripe, Oaxacan Jewel(2), Australian Giant Oxheart and Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red for a total of 71 tomatoes.

Sweet Carneros Pink is having a good second wind. The fruits look good and are about 60 percent of the size of the first wave. Stupice is coming off a good second wind, the second wind tomatoes looking as good as the first wind tomatoes.

Other than that, plants are burning out. Sweet 100 has a disease where it looks like it's covered in a spider web material. But we're both busy so we haven't taken it out yet.

Harvested Over 8000 Tomatoes For The Year!

Today's harvest includes 14 Matt's Wild Cherry, 14 Snow White, 11 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 Stupice, 6 Orange And Green Zebra, 5 Sweet Carneros Pink, 4 Coyote (not Coyote), 4 SunGold(1), 4 Sweet 100, 3 Garden Peach, 3 Kellogg's Breakfast, 3 Yellow Brandywine, 3 Paul Robeson(2), 3 Haley's Purple Comet, 3 Oaxacan Jewel(2), 2 Porkchop, 2 Jaune Flamme, Vorlon, Large Pink Anna(1), Patio, Green Grape and Michael Pollan for a total of 96 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 8000 tomatoes for the year (8012)! The harvest numbers are staying surprisingly steady and in fact have gone up over the last couple of days. I suspect this is due to the recent heat wave and the numbers will drop shortly.

Yesterday's and today's harvest has been more "substantial" than it has been in a while. I'm not talking just about numbers, but about size as well. A lot of beefsteaks are having a second wind, such as Yellow Brandywine, Paul Robeson(2) and Kelloggs' Breakfast. Having said that, these tomatoes are only one to two ounces. Still, that weighs more than a Matt's Wild Cherry! My wife noticed the difference immediately.

We've also harvested over 1500 back yard tomatoes for the month of August (1522). Also, we've harvested over 150 Orange And Green Zebra tomatoes (153) as well as over 50 Porkchop (51) tomatoes -- wow, this tomato is so memorable you'd have thought we'd harvested much more than that.

I should have mentioned yesterday that we've now harvested over 900 Snow White tomatoes (931).  

Harvested Over 2400 Matt's Wild Cherry Tomatoes!

Sunday's harvest includes 23 Matt's Wild Cherry, 20 Snow White, 5 Husky Cherry Red(2), 4 SunGold(1), 4 Stupice, 3 Yellow Brandywine, 3 Persimmon(1), 3 Garden Peach, 3 Orange And Green Zebra, 3 Sweet Carneros Pink, 2 Large Pink Anna(2), 2 SunSugar, 2 Persimmon(2), 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Haley's Purple Comet, Patio, Kellogg's Breakfast, Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, Husky Gold and Aunt Ruby's German Green(3) for a total of 86 tomatoes.

I realized a day or two ago that we had grown Speckled Roman from seed. So the fact that it looks like Persimmon isn't a coincidence. It is Persimmon. So I've renamed the two tomatoes to Persimmon(1) and Persimmon(2).

Four tomato plants were pulled: Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Large Pink Anna(2), Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra) and Cassidy's Folly.

Today's harvest includes 23 Matt's Wild Cherry, 14 Snow White, 9 SunGold(1), 9 Husky Cherry Red(2), 6 Stupice, 5 Orange And Green Zebra, 4 Sweet Carneros Pink, 3 Green Grape, 2 Haley's Purple Comet, 2 Yellow Brandywine, Coyote (not Coyote), Vorlon, Neves Azorean Red, Persimmon(1) (6.5 ounces), Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Kellogg's Breakfast and Husky Gold for a total of 84 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 2400 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (2427)! Also, we've harvested over 500 Husky Cherry Red(2) tomatoes (501), over 300 SunGold(1) tomatoes (307) and over 100 Sweet Carneros Pink tomatoes (106). 

Harvested Over 3500 Tomatoes For August!

Today's harvest includes 19 Matt's Wild Cherry, 17 Snow White, 4 Sweet Carneros Pink, 3 Stupice, 3 Husky Cherry Red(2), 2 Jaune Flamme, 2 Orange And Green Zebra, Garden Peach, Kellogg's Breakfast, Paul Robeson(2), Yellow Brandywine, Australian Giant Oxheart and Aunt Ruby's German Green(3) (10.5 ounces) for a total of 56 tomatoes.

Today's harvest was hindered by a lot of morning glare. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

We've now harvested over 3500 tomatoes for August (3512)! I believe this is now officially our highest harvest total in August ever.

We've now harvested over 100 Stupice tomatoes (101)! And yesterday we reached 350 harvested SunSugar tomatoes.

Most of today's harvest was eaten for breakfast.

It was unusual to get a blemish-free beefsteak tomato this late in the season -- we ate it and it was very good -- but to get a blemish free Aunt Ruby's German Green, which is prone to blemishes was a very pleasant and happy surprise! 

Harvested Over 3000 Tomatoes in August!

Today's harvest includes 43 Matt's Wild Cherry, 20 Snow White, 4 SunSugar, 2 Husky Cherry Red(1), 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 SunGold(1), 2 Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Jaune Flamme, Garden Peach, Orange And Green Zebra, Sweet Carneros Pink, Pineapple (12 ounces), Stupice, Speckled Roman (not Speckled Roman), Yellow Brandywine, Husky Cherry Red(2) and Haley's Purple Comet for a total of 85 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 3000 tomatoes for August (3081)! Barring a meltdown, this will be the most productive August for us.

We've also harvested over 2200 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (2242)! Finally, Matt's Wild Cherry is slowing down. But there's new growth with blooms. Matt's Wild Cherry will in all probability get a second wind. But the first wind isn't over with!

We've also harvested 50 Honkin' Big Black Cherry tomatoes.

Harvested Over 2000 Matt's Wild Cherry Tomatoes!

Today's harvest includes 76 Matt's Wild Cherry, 6 SunGold(1), 4 SunSugar, 4 Snow White, 3 Garden Peach, 2 Persimmon, 2 Green Doctors Kiwi(2), 2 Husky Cherry Red(1), 2 Husky Cherry Red(2), Vorlon, SunGold(2), Hungarian Heart, Honkin' Big Black Cherry and Sweet Carneros Pink for a total of 106 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 2000 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes (2007)! This obliterates the high harvest number for a single season and a particular year. Also, we've harvested an eye-popping 1186 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes just this month!

Other items of note: I believe it was yesterday (I've been tardy in updating the totals) we harvested over 3000 back yard tomatoes (now at 3024). And today we harvested over 450 Husky Cherry Red(2) tomatoes (452).

So far for August we've harvested a bountiful 2671 tomatoes. Lots of cherry tomatoes, but still a really good month so far.

Harvested Over 2000 Tomatoes For August!

Today's harvest includes 77 Matt's Wild Cherry, 10 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 Garden Peach, 7 SunGold(1), 5 Snow White, 4 Golden Mama, 4 Sweet 100, 4 Husky Cherry Red(1), 3 Bloody Butcher, 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Coyote (not Coyote), 2 Jaune Flamme, 2 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 2 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, Dr. Wyche's Yellow, Pineapple, SunSugar, Kellogg's Breakfast, Oaxacan Jewel(2), Green Grape, Sweet Carneros Pink, Honkin' Big Black Cherry, Persimmon (10 ounces) and Green Zebra(1) for a total of 141 tomatoes.

We've now harvested over 2000 tomatoes for the month of August (2061)! That number right there would make for a solid month and we're only on day 12. And that's mostly due to one plant, Matt's Wild Cherry, (803) making up nearly 39% of the total. Both my wife and I agree that we prefer this tomato to Red Currant. Good tasting tomato and lots of them. We've now harvested over 1600 Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes for the year (1624).

A SunGold(2) is maturing.

Where'd All The Tomatoes Come From?

Today's harvest includes 62 Matt's Wild Cherry, 24 Snow White, 12 Husky Cherry Red(2), 12 Garden Peach, 9 Husky Cherry Red(1), 8 Haley's Purple Comet, 7 Sweet Carneros Pink, 7 Southern Night, 6 Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, 6 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 5 Portuguese Neighbor (6 ounces, 11 ounces, 10 ounces), 5 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (10 ounces, 9.5 ounces), 4 Orange And Green Zebra, 4 Jaune Flamme, 4 Coyote (not Coyote), 4 Cassidy's Folly, 4 SunGold(1), 3 German Orange Strawberry, 3 Golden Mama, 3 Green Grape, 3 Porkchop (10 ounces, 7 ounces), 3 Black Krim (9 ounces, 16 ounces), 2 SunSugar, 2 Aunt Ruby's German Green(3) (14 ounces, 12.5 ounces), 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Paul Robeson(2) (9 ounces), Dr. Wyche's Yellow (12 ounces), Kellogg's Breakfast, Australian Giant Oxheart (7.5 ounces), Hungarian Heart (11.5 ounces), Lime Green Salad, Chocolate Stripes(1), Stupice, Vorlon, Neves Azorean Red (13.5 ounces), Green Zebra(1), Bloody Butcher for a total of 217 tomatoes.

Wow, where'd all these tomatoes come from? Snow White had topped out and several plants are "old" after producing a lot of fruit. This morning I kept pulling good sized tomato after good sized tomato after good sized tomato...

My wife has been working her butt off all week preparing various tomato dishes and distributing our harvest. She's taking a day off today from tomatoes.

There's still a lot of Matt's Wild Cherry to harvest...

Harvested Neves Azorean Red; Porkchop Popular

Today's harvest includes 28 Matt's Wild Cherry, 14 Snow White, 10 Haley's Purple Comet, 8 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 Husky Cherry Red(1), 7 Golden Mama, 6 Sweet Carneros Pink, 5 Cassidy's Folly, 5 Orange And Green Zebra, 5 Black Seaman(2), 3 Southern Night (9.5 ounces), 3 SunGold(1), 3 SunSugar, 2 Neves Azorean Red (15 ounces, 11 ounces) (new), 2 Honkin' Big Black Cherry, 2 Porkchop, 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (8.5 ounces), 2 Black Krim(1), 2 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 2 German Orange Strawberry, Bloody Butcher, Persimmon (7 ounces), Vorlon (7.5 ounces), Jaune Flamme, Green Doctor's Kiwi(2), Paul Robeson(2) (7 ounces), Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red, Garden Peach, Kellogg's Breakfast (8.5 ounces) and Big White Pink Stripe for a total of 128 tomatoes.

The Neves Azorean Red tomatoes are a good size, though the shoulders are green but the bottom on these tomatoes are quite ripe.

My wife spent a lot of time processing our harvested tomatoes, making tomato puree. She also watered some of the tomato plants.

Several people have requested "Save those yellow tomatoes, they're delicious". People are in love with Porkchop!

 

Harvested Hungarian Heart!

No harvest yesterday.

Today's harvest includes 25 Matt's Wild Cherry, 10 Husky Cherry Red(2), 10 Husky Cherry Red(1), 8 Haley's Purple Comet, 8 Snow White, 8 Golden Mama, 6 SunGold(1), 4 Bloody Butcher, 4 Orange And Green Zebra, 4 Sweet Carneros Pink, 4 Garden Peach, 3 Southern Night, 3 Stupice, 3 SunSugar, 3 Porkchop (7 ounces), 3 Black Krim(1), 2 Black Seaman(2), 2 Green Zebra(2) (not Green Zebra), 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (8 ounces), 2 German Orange Strawberry (6 ounces, 7.5 ounces), 2 Kellogg's Breakfast, 2 Jaune Flamme, Hungarian Heart (new), Green Doctors Kiwi(1) (not Green Doctor's Kiwi), Green Doctor's Kiwi(2), Big Zebra (7 ounces), Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, Chocolate Stripes(1), Yellow Brandywine (7.5 ounces), Paul Robeson(2), Portuguese Neighbor (11.5 ounces), Cassidy's Folly, Big White Pink Stripe (8 ounces), Persimmon (15.5 ounces) and Vorlon for a total of 131 tomatoes.

When you miss a day of harvest you would think that the next day would be near double the total amount. In practice, that's not the case. When you harvest on a daily basis, the water brought up by the roots is then placed to the other maturing tomatoes. If you miss a day, the already mature tomatoes get some of that water and the near mature tomatoes don't mature as rapidly.

The harvested Hungarian Heart has a bit of a deformity and that's why it matured quicker. There are some good large tomatoes growing on this plant coming soon.
My wife pulled five plants last night -- Aunt Ruby's German Green(2), Black And Brown Boar, Jaune Coeur de Pigeon and the two volunteers.

Harvested Persimmon!

Today's harvest includes 31 Matt's Wild Cherry, 15 Husky Cherry Red(1), 11 Snow White, 9 Husky Cherry Red(2), 7 Jaune Flamme, 7 SunGold(1), 6 Haley's Purple Comet, 5 Sweet Carneros Pink, 5 Vorlon (6 ounces, 10.5 ounces), 4 Golden Mama, 4 SunSugar, 4 Southern Night, 3 Black Seaman(2) (6 ounces), 3 Black And Brown Boar, 3 Black Krim(1), 2 Porkchop, 2 Indian Stripe, 2 Bloody Butcher, 2 Green Grape, 2 Stupice, 2 Garden Peach, 2 Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (8 ounces, 9 ounces), 2 Cassidy's Folly, 2 Quedlinburger Fruehe Liebe, 2 Large Pink Anna(2) (6 ounces), Persimmon (19.5 ounces) (new), Dr. Wyche's Yellow (11.5 ounces), Paul Robeson(2) (16 ounces), Crimson Cushion(2) (6 ounces) for a total of 141 tomatoes.

Today's count is nearly a 30 percent drop from yesterday's total. Did we top out? We'll see. There will be plenty of plants with a second wind so I believe our totals will be strong this year -- but again time will tell.

The harvested Persimmon, Paul Robeson and Pink Berkeley Tie Dye are beautiful tomatoes.

Yesterday morning I added fertilizer to the container plants. My wife watered it in for SunSugar.

Several more tomato plants are ready to be pulled.

Black From Tula and Black Seaman(1) have maturing tomatoes.