2011 - We love the pictures - Page 2

g8shot1 · August 13, 2011

We love the taste and mouth feel of Lillian's Yellow - the best tasting mistake we've made

Roma's are finally starting to turn.....

We reduced 2 gallons of sauced tomato's into about 3/4 of a gallon yesterday. Looks like I'm going to have to buy tomato's to make sauce with if I expect to make it through the winter.

g8shot1 · August 20, 2011

All my heirlooms are history, vicitims of late blight......

Having some folks over to sample the toms in the pic along with mozz, basil, balsamic etc.....

kath · August 23, 2011

So sorry to hear that your season was cut short by this disease.

You had some beautiful tomatoes this year.

remy · August 23, 2011

Yes, sorry, your season got cut short by LB. You got some wonderful tomatoes this year. I enjoyeed seeing the pics. I'm also amazed by the the amount of cukes you got off Marketmore 76.
Remy

g8shot1 · August 24, 2011

To share on a Saturday afternoon...... all very tasty.

g8shot1 · September 17, 2011

Black Cherry, Sungold, Sweet 100 and Matt's commingling in a ceramic colander.

kath · September 17, 2011

That's beautiful- amazing that you still have any fruits a month after LB. My plants are history early this year, too- only have a couple dozen left on the counter but they're not pretty enough for a picture!

g8shot1 · September 18, 2011

We can't believe it either....

We pulled and discarded everything in one raised bed except for Matt's Wild who continues to produce. We replanted that bed with green beans and yellow onions, we'll see how well that goes before the first frost. The weather lately makes me think our first frost will be early, I hope I'm wrong.

I don't know how the black cherry and sungolds have continued to produce the small numbers that they are producing. They're in pots that are only 5ft or so from the bed that was destroyed with LB.

Oddly to me, in another bed there are still 2 Lillians Yellow that look like they are near their end but they keep flowering. There are maybe ten nice sized green toms on them that I hope blush before the cold.

Our fingers are crossed......

Lastly, the Garlic Festival in Saugerties, NY is next weekend. We're always excited about that one. We try to get there on opening day at the moment the gates open. We run around with backpacks (literally) and fill them full of garlic before we bolt back to the car to hopefully miss some of of 15,000 people per day that show up. Excluding admission fee, we try to limit ourselves to spending $60 on various garlic varieties and braids. This effort usually gives us enough garlic for the next 9 months. I love some of the red varities.

kath · September 18, 2011

I've seen Matt's Wild Cherry withstand quite a bit of disease and cold in the past...where there's life, there's hope!

The garlic festival sounds great- I still have to decide what to plant and where to get it. Guess at this point I'll just check out farmers' markets. Do you plant any garlic of your own?

RayR · September 18, 2011

Things are still coming along here, this has been such a late year for harvesting tomatoes, I still have about 80 tomatoes on the vine (mostly green), not counting cherries and pastes. Luckily no disease to speak of this year except some mild cases of Septoria which appeared in early September! No danger of frost in the near future, actually temps are supposed to rise a bit this week.

This is some of what I picked last week

g8shot1 · October 25, 2011

RayR..... great looking toms in that basket!

jackrabbit183 · October 25, 2011

Amazing photos of everyones work. I just got on board with you folksand I am so inspired every time I visit the forum thanks.

August 23, 2011	#19
remy Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Z6 WNY Posts: 2,354	Yes, sorry, your season got cut short by LB. You got some wonderful tomatoes this year. I enjoyeed seeing the pics. I'm also amazed by the the amount of cukes you got off Marketmore 76. Remy __________________ "I wake to sleep and take my waking slow" -Theodore Roethke Yes, we have a great party for WNY/Ontario tomato growers every year on Grand Island! Owner of The Sample Seed Shop

September 18, 2011	#23
g8shot1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2010 Location: Gardiner, NY Posts: 121	Thanks We can't believe it either.... We pulled and discarded everything in one raised bed except for Matt's Wild who continues to produce. We replanted that bed with green beans and yellow onions, we'll see how well that goes before the first frost. The weather lately makes me think our first frost will be early, I hope I'm wrong. I don't know how the black cherry and sungolds have continued to produce the small numbers that they are producing. They're in pots that are only 5ft or so from the bed that was destroyed with LB. Oddly to me, in another bed there are still 2 Lillians Yellow that look like they are near their end but they keep flowering. There are maybe ten nice sized green toms on them that I hope blush before the cold. Our fingers are crossed...... Lastly, the Garlic Festival in Saugerties, NY is next weekend. We're always excited about that one. We try to get there on opening day at the moment the gates open. We run around with backpacks (literally) and fill them full of garlic before we bolt back to the car to hopefully miss some of of 15,000 people per day that show up. Excluding admission fee, we try to limit ourselves to spending $60 on various garlic varieties and braids. This effort usually gives us enough garlic for the next 9 months. I love some of the red varities. __________________ Zone 5a

October 25, 2011	#26
g8shot1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2010 Location: Gardiner, NY Posts: 121	RayR..... great looking toms in that basket! __________________ Zone 5a

August 23, 2011	#18
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	So sorry to hear that your season was cut short by this disease. You had some beautiful tomatoes this year.

September 17, 2011	#22
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	That's beautiful- amazing that you still have any fruits a month after LB. My plants are history early this year, too- only have a couple dozen left on the counter but they're not pretty enough for a picture!

October 25, 2011	#27
jackrabbit183 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: california Posts: 15	Amazing photos of everyones work. I just got on board with you folksand I am so inspired every time I visit the forum thanks.