Season starting in earnest - Page 5

Boutique Tomatoes · July 28, 2012

Gone for a few days and nobody came over to get any while I was gone, so I've got an all day job tomorrow processing tomatoes. Picked a couple of rows this afternoon and took pictures of these newly ripened varieties.

Marmande Garnier Rouge - This one weighed 15 oz, very pretty tomato

Beauty Blanc

Tlacolula

Yellow Furry Boar - managed to get decent focus so you can see the fuzz on the skin

Federle

AAA Sweet Solano

Earl Of Edgecombe

Venetian Marketplace

Viva Lindsey’s White Kentucky

White Wax

Anna Russian

Absinthe

Pale Perfect Purple

Unnamed #1- A yellow with blue skin features From Tom Wagner's Searching for the Blue Zebra category

Unnamed #2- Another yellow with blue skin speckles From Tom Wagner's Searching for the Blue Zebra category

babice · July 28, 2012

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Originally Posted by marktutt

Gone for a few days and nobody came over to get any while I was gone...

Next time you are going to be gone for a few days, you just let me know. I'll volunteer to come over and pick some!

Boutique Tomatoes · July 28, 2012

I wish I had this time! I thought someone who cans was coming over and I'd find them pretty much picked over, but they didn't come. The only other person who was here picked 3 tomatoes, which didn't make a dent.

Oh well, I'll get a good start on my canning tomorrow.

Mashman · July 29, 2012

Just amazing stuff Mark.

RebelRidin · July 30, 2012

And I thought I was having a good year....

Just beautiful.

Boutique Tomatoes · July 30, 2012

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Originally Posted by Mashman

Just amazing stuff Mark.

Thanks! This year has been a lot of work, but I got to try a very large number of tomato varieties in a rainbow of colors, sizes and shapes.

I culled the majority of the Caribbean tomato varieties today. Most of them turned out to be nothing all that special, although I have found three currant types and a couple of interesting processing tomatoes from Puerto Rico and Cuba that I'll grow out again next year.

No pictures today as I was going through the red processing tomatoes, most of which look pretty similar. I'll pick the rest of the trial garden tomorrow and probably have some more pics tomorrow.

lakelady · July 31, 2012

Mark, you did a fabulous job this year, your garden must be heaven! So many pretty varieties, and of course, so much work that goes along with that! Thanks for sharing those photos with us, it was a lovely break from my workday to look at all those gorgeous tomatoes!

You are in zone 5, I'm in zone 6B, and I haven't had the ripening you have yet! I'm jealous.....

Boutique Tomatoes · August 4, 2012

Well, I think with two or three more days I may finally be through all of my first flush of tomatoes, a pity so many of them ended up going for sauce. I currently have a crockpot full of white tomato puree, which will be fun to turn into a creamy tomato soup that will surprise someone.

Here is a off plant picture of Téton de Venus Blanc - most of them do have the ~~nipple~~ namesake tip and it turns a bit pink when the fruit is ripe. My wife has had some good fun teasing me about these.

Another meaty white type is White Oxheart. This one is larger than Téton de Venus Blanc and doesn't have the tip.

Lehrertomate, which translates as Teachers Tomato was sent to me by Clara this year. My wife is currently going back to school to be a math teacher so I was excited to try this one. Most of the fruit is large, in the 1 pound range.

Muddy Waters - Someone had asked to see this one sliced. I really like this one, the flavor is nice and balanced, not quite as zippy as green zebra. There is some striping in the blue skin and as you see they can get quite dark.

I believe I'd taken pictures of these next two on the plants, but not a close up.

This is one from Tom's Searching for the Blue Zebra mystery seeds, a yellow with a blue cap.

And another yellow from that same pack of seeds, this one is smaller and is just speckled/streaked with blue.

clara · August 5, 2012

Mark, I like your way of taking photos very much!

I'm a bit astonished about the yellow shoulders of your Lehrertomate - mine (last year) didn't have any. Can't say it for this year, not ripe yet... I hope you will enjoy the taste! clara

Tania · August 5, 2012

Mark, gorgeous pictures, vibrant colors and very appetizing bounty... I am so happy that you have a great season!

This thread is a real treasure and I enjoyed it very much. Not sure how I missed it at the first place...

We are far behind this year, and LB is threatening my tomatoes, so I pray there is no rain in the next couple of weeks and they they mature fruit before they are killed by the disease.

Boutique Tomatoes · August 5, 2012

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Originally Posted by clara

Mark, I like your way of taking photos very much!

I'm a bit astonished about the yellow shoulders of your Lehrertomate - mine (last year) didn't have any. Can't say it for this year, not ripe yet... I hope you will enjoy the taste! clara

Thanks! At various points in my life photography has been a hobby of mine, and it helps when it's a subject you're passionate about. ;-)

I think the yellow shoulders are likely a touch of sunscald. I prune all the plants in the trellis garden to two leaders and that garden gets 14+ hours of sun a day. I'll be having it for lunch today, after I strip the seeds out of half of it... ;-)

Boutique Tomatoes · August 5, 2012

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Originally Posted by Tania

Mark, gorgeous pictures, vibrant colors and very appetizing bounty... I am so happy that you have a great season!

This thread is a real treasure and I enjoyed it very much. Not sure how I missed it at the first place...

We are far behind this year, and LB is threatening my tomatoes, so I pray there is no rain in the next couple of weeks and they they mature fruit before they are killed by the disease.

Thank you! I'll cross my fingers for you. I'm hoping that the constant rain stops here as well, I still have a number of varieties to photograph this year but most of the fruits that have ripened recently haven't been terribly photogenic. A few of the plants are starting to look like they have a foilage disease, so I need to get out there and start culling things before it spreads.

Boutique Tomatoes · August 6, 2012

These first two were actually taken back on July 15th, I'm starting to find where I've taken pictures and not archived them yet... Maybe I overreached a little this year

Pink Boar

Limmony

Malakhitovaya Shkatulka

Beauty King

Polish Linguisa

Brandywine From Croatia

From my Caribbean variety project : Tomate Cocina - LYC 3532, a Cuban paste tomato

And my tomato salesgirl with a sample basket of pretty small tomatoes.

RayR · August 6, 2012

Really great pics Mark, and lot's of variety.

Boutique Tomatoes · August 7, 2012

More varieties from today.

Lithuanian Crested Pink

Zapotec Pleated

Green Giant

Nicoviotis Orange

Vorlon

Cosmonaut Volkov

Manyel - I thought it might be fun to show the contrast between the Helsing ★★★★★★★★ Blues in the background here.

Russian Cossack (2) - One of the plants is putting out more and larger fruits than the others, so I'm saving seeds of this variety from it (I'm not sure which generation the seeds are, it's another Tom Wagner variety). There is a lot of variability, fruit sizes range from 4-15oz, but all of the large ones are badly cracked so the picture is of a 5oz one that wasn't too bad.

Aunt Gertie's Gold

GLL - Green When Ripe Heart ? - More variability from Tom's Green Lantern Lights seeds. The last of my plants is putting out 2-4oz hearts.

Berkely Tie-Dye

Ugly Tie Die Twins - Plenty of ugly ones in the garden too, I thought I had 5 BTD fruits ripening, but when I went to pick them I found the one above and these two.

July 30, 2012	#65
RebelRidin Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Maryland's Eastern Shore Posts: 993	And I thought I was having a good year.... Just beautiful. __________________ George _____________________________ "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure." Thomas Jefferson, 1787

July 31, 2012	#67
lakelady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: northern NJ zone 6b Posts: 1,862	Mark, you did a fabulous job this year, your garden must be heaven! So many pretty varieties, and of course, so much work that goes along with that! Thanks for sharing those photos with us, it was a lovely break from my workday to look at all those gorgeous tomatoes! You are in zone 5, I'm in zone 6B, and I haven't had the ripening you have yet! I'm jealous..... __________________ Antoniette

August 5, 2012	#70
Tania Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Anmore, BC, Canada Posts: 3,970	Mark, gorgeous pictures, vibrant colors and very appetizing bounty... I am so happy that you have a great season! This thread is a real treasure and I enjoyed it very much. Not sure how I missed it at the first place... We are far behind this year, and LB is threatening my tomatoes, so I pray there is no rain in the next couple of weeks and they they mature fruit before they are killed by the disease. __________________ Tatiana's TOMATObase Last edited by Tania; August 5, 2012 at 11:31 AM.

July 28, 2012	#61
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	Gone for a few days and nobody came over to get any while I was gone, so I've got an all day job tomorrow processing tomatoes. Picked a couple of rows this afternoon and took pictures of these newly ripened varieties. Marmande Garnier Rouge - This one weighed 15 oz, very pretty tomato Beauty Blanc Tlacolula Yellow Furry Boar - managed to get decent focus so you can see the fuzz on the skin Federle AAA Sweet Solano Earl Of Edgecombe Venetian Marketplace Viva Lindsey’s White Kentucky White Wax Anna Russian Absinthe Pale Perfect Purple Unnamed #1- A yellow with blue skin features From Tom Wagner's Searching for the Blue Zebra category Unnamed #2- Another yellow with blue skin speckles From Tom Wagner's Searching for the Blue Zebra category

July 29, 2012	#64
Mashman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: MA Posts: 158	Just amazing stuff Mark.

August 4, 2012	#68
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	Well, I think with two or three more days I may finally be through all of my first flush of tomatoes, a pity so many of them ended up going for sauce. I currently have a crockpot full of white tomato puree, which will be fun to turn into a creamy tomato soup that will surprise someone. Here is a off plant picture of Téton de Venus Blanc - most of them do have the ~~nipple~~ namesake tip and it turns a bit pink when the fruit is ripe. My wife has had some good fun teasing me about these. Another meaty white type is White Oxheart. This one is larger than Téton de Venus Blanc and doesn't have the tip. Lehrertomate, which translates as Teachers Tomato was sent to me by Clara this year. My wife is currently going back to school to be a math teacher so I was excited to try this one. Most of the fruit is large, in the 1 pound range. Muddy Waters - Someone had asked to see this one sliced. I really like this one, the flavor is nice and balanced, not quite as zippy as green zebra. There is some striping in the blue skin and as you see they can get quite dark. I believe I'd taken pictures of these next two on the plants, but not a close up. This is one from Tom's Searching for the Blue Zebra mystery seeds, a yellow with a blue cap. And another yellow from that same pack of seeds, this one is smaller and is just speckled/streaked with blue.

August 5, 2012	#69
clara Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 1,351	Mark, I like your way of taking photos very much! I'm a bit astonished about the yellow shoulders of your Lehrertomate - mine (last year) didn't have any. Can't say it for this year, not ripe yet... I hope you will enjoy the taste! clara

August 6, 2012	#73
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	These first two were actually taken back on July 15th, I'm starting to find where I've taken pictures and not archived them yet... Maybe I overreached a little this year Pink Boar Limmony Malakhitovaya Shkatulka Beauty King Polish Linguisa Brandywine From Croatia From my Caribbean variety project : Tomate Cocina - LYC 3532, a Cuban paste tomato And my tomato salesgirl with a sample basket of pretty small tomatoes.

August 6, 2012	#74
RayR Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Cheektowaga, NY Posts: 2,468	Really great pics Mark, and lot's of variety.

August 7, 2012	#75
Boutique Tomatoes Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Northeast Wisconsin, Zone 5a Posts: 1,109	More varieties from today. Lithuanian Crested Pink Zapotec Pleated Green Giant Nicoviotis Orange Vorlon Cosmonaut Volkov Manyel - I thought it might be fun to show the contrast between the Helsing ★★★★★★★★ Blues in the background here. Russian Cossack (2) - One of the plants is putting out more and larger fruits than the others, so I'm saving seeds of this variety from it (I'm not sure which generation the seeds are, it's another Tom Wagner variety). There is a lot of variability, fruit sizes range from 4-15oz, but all of the large ones are badly cracked so the picture is of a 5oz one that wasn't too bad. Aunt Gertie's Gold GLL - Green When Ripe Heart ? - More variability from Tom's Green Lantern Lights seeds. The last of my plants is putting out 2-4oz hearts. Berkely Tie-Dye Ugly Tie Die Twins - Plenty of ugly ones in the garden too, I thought I had 5 BTD fruits ripening, but when I went to pick them I found the one above and these two.