Season begins to crank up

[Heritage]

This is yesterday's harvest, and should be typical of my daily crop for about the next month. Then, they belong to the spider mites.

Varieties, from top to bottom, left to right:

Row 1, Crnkovic Gold, Fishlake Oxheart, Captain Lucky White, County Agent, Rozella

Row 2. Dwarf Jade Beauty, Grandpa Willie (pink), Martha Logan, Shirley S

Row 3. Sandburg, Shilling Giant, Grandpa Charlie, Zolotinka (incorrect)

Row 4. Magnum Beefsteak, Work Release Paste, Green Zebra, Guker's Special, Tasmanian Chocolate

Row 5. baby Fauxskunk

Steve

[TightenUp]

looking fantastic. lots of lesser known varieties there, actually a bunch i've never heard of.

if you have time how about some taste ratings/ taste profiles?

[shelleybean]

Awesome! Cute cat, too, BTW.

[aclum]

Hi Steve,

Your tomatoes look great! Do you expect to be selling seeds for all of these varieties for the 2014 season?

Anne

[KarenO]

beautiful! and with the cat to give some perspective for size you certainly have some nice big tomatoes there.
KarenO

[socalgardengal]

That looks Amazing!

[bejustice]

Awesome, I like the baskets too! Good for stacking bigs. Where did you get those?

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by Heritage

This is yesterday's harvest, and should be typical of my daily crop for about the next month. Then, they belong to the spider mites.

Varieties, from top to bottom, left to right:

Row 1, Crnkovic Gold, Fishlake Oxheart, Captain Lucky White, County Agent, Rozella

Row 2. Dwarf Jade Beauty, Grandpa Willie (pink), Martha Logan, Shirley S

Row 3. Sandburg, Shilling Giant, Grandpa Charlie, Zolotinka (incorrect)

Row 4. Magnum Beefsteak, Work Release Paste, Green Zebra, Guker's Special, Tasmanian Chocolate

Row 5. baby Fauxskunk

Steve

I thought you were going to try predatory mites?

[linzelu100]

Oh wow! Just beautiful!

[Tania]

Beautiful bounty!

Steve, I wish you many more to come.

Our tomatoes just started to ripen.

Tatiana

[Heritage]

Thank you for the generous comments

@ TightenUp, I hope to get a chance to rate all these at least two more times during the season but my initial impressions of this group: Standout pink beefsteak was Shirley S for flavor and production, with Grandpa Willie right there with Shirley. Grandpa Willie is supposed to be a red (not pink) so will have to see what Bill wants to do with this one. Rozella was a standout bi-color, it is new from Millard M and, though the flavor was consistent, there was considerable variation in the color. This can happen with bi-colors so will wait for future fruit. Captain Lucky White was an exceptional white and should get larger than I grew them if grown properly. It may be the best yellow/white I've tasted - looking forward to tasting later season tomatoes of CLW. Work Release Paste is an amazing paste, I had very few seeds from the first 4 fruit so hopefully I will get a lot of fruit production.

@ Anne, I expect many of these will make the final cut, thanks!

@bejustice, those are the trays/flats nurserys use to transport and display smaller plants. I used to be able to get them for free but now, with the price of plastic i think you would have to buy them. They really aren't quite deep/sturdy enough to stack/transport larger tomatoes.

@Redbaron, I hope to get an early start with them next season. While looking at the mites under a magnifying glass I spotted some predator insect munching on the mites. I haven't sprayed for mites so maybe the beneficials are getting a foothold.

@Tania, thanks, I hope you are soon very busy harvesting seeds!

Steve

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by Heritage

Thank you for the generous comments


@Redbaron, I hope to get an early start with them next season. While looking at the mites under a magnifying glass I spotted some predator insect munching on the mites. I haven't sprayed for mites so maybe the beneficials are getting a foothold.


Steve

Everyone here at Tville is backing you! And BTW, that is excellent! A native beneficial is always to be preferred over importing one! I wish you the best!

[Alfredo]

Really beautiful assortment of tomatoes there.

[FILMNET]

great work

[NarnianGarden]

Looks great - hopefully I'll one day harvest such lovely ones!