Sunday morning tomato harvest (Carolina Gold, Brandywine, 4th of

gggeek · July 13, 2014

Carolina Gold (yellow), Brandywine(pink), 4th of July, Large Red Cherry, and Speckled Roma.

Enjoy!

http://imgur.com/GPFN9dO

Labradors2 · July 13, 2014

Congrats on the great harvest! They all look gorgeous - I think. The photograph is so enormous that it's difficult to see

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How do you manage to post such a big picture when it will not accept jpegs from me that appear to be a lot smaller and I have to keep going back and re-sizing?

Linda

Worth1 · July 13, 2014

Worth

gssgarden · July 13, 2014

Very Nice!!!

Greg

Kazfam · July 13, 2014

Very nice.

When did you plant out?
I have lots of green fruit but only few cherries so far that have any color.

I'm in the Upstate of SC...planted out 5/9.

gggeek · July 13, 2014

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Originally Posted by Kazfam

Very nice.

When did you plant out?
I have lots of green fruit but only few cherries so far that have any color.

I'm in the Upstate of SC...planted out 5/9.

Ha, I actually don't know the exact date. This is the first year where I slacked off hard on tracking stuff (normally My Folia profile has all my dates for every planting). I planted out slightly early because I got bit by a freezing wind so I want to say mid April. I know by early June I had reasonably sized tomatoes on my Carolina Gold.

This is actually my second harvest as I had some last week as well. It's been a very good year with more evenly spaced rain fall and great sunny days.

Cole_Robbie · July 13, 2014

I don't especially like firm tomatoes, and I have seen Carolina Gold described that way. How firm is it? Does it soften up upon ripening or just stay hard and get wrinkled skin like other firm varieties?

gggeek · July 14, 2014

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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

I don't especially like firm tomatoes, and I have seen Carolina Gold described that way. How firm is it? Does it soften up upon ripening or just stay hard and get wrinkled skin like other firm varieties?

They were firm right off the vine. I did have one that I had picked about a week ago that I would say didn't soften much before I included it with the sauce. Definitely a noticeable difference from the brandywines coming off the vines.

I'm a variety person so like different textures.

Spartanburg123 · July 15, 2014

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Originally Posted by Kazfam

Very nice.

When did you plant out?
I have lots of green fruit but only few cherries so far that have any color.

I'm in the Upstate of SC...planted out 5/9.

Kazfam- I'm in Spartanburg, and I planted out on May 15th. I've had 3 ripe Brandywines, and 2 blushing Big Zacs as of 7-8-14.

gggeek · July 15, 2014

For clarification I am in Upstate SC as well. I've planted as early as the first weekend in April in past years utilizing empty milk jugs over the plants as protection for the first few weeks.

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gggeek Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: SC Posts: 64	Sunday morning tomato harvest (Carolina Gold, Brandywine, 4th of Carolina Gold (yellow), Brandywine(pink), 4th of July, Large Red Cherry, and Speckled Roma. Enjoy! http://imgur.com/GPFN9dO __________________ http://myfolia.com/gardener/thisweekinmygarden/ Last edited by gggeek; July 13, 2014 at 10:01 PM.

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Kazfam Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Upstate South Carolina Posts: 113	Very nice. When did you plant out? I have lots of green fruit but only few cherries so far that have any color. I'm in the Upstate of SC...planted out 5/9. __________________ God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment of the spirit of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork. Francis Bacon

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gggeek Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: SC Posts: 64	For clarification I am in Upstate SC as well. I've planted as early as the first weekend in April in past years utilizing empty milk jugs over the plants as protection for the first few weeks. __________________ http://myfolia.com/gardener/thisweekinmygarden/

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Labradors2 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Ontario Posts: 3,898	Congrats on the great harvest! They all look gorgeous - I think. The photograph is so enormous that it's difficult to see . How do you manage to post such a big picture when it will not accept jpegs from me that appear to be a lot smaller and I have to keep going back and re-sizing? Linda

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Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Worth

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gssgarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: N.C. Posts: 1,827	Very Nice!!! Greg

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Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	I don't especially like firm tomatoes, and I have seen Carolina Gold described that way. How firm is it? Does it soften up upon ripening or just stay hard and get wrinkled skin like other firm varieties?