harvest begins

[PaulF]

The Great Plains tomato harvest begins. Last week the cherries started, Black Cherry, Ambrosia Red and Pearly Pink. Yesterday and today the larger tomatoes began: Daniel Burson, Marianna's Peace, Tsar Kolokol, Ludmilla's Pink Oxheart, Kellogg's Breakfast, Blue Ridge Mountain, India, Ernesto, Carbon and a few peppers. Not being eaten are the last of the store bought in the background.

[ginger2778]

Nice! Right now we are subsisting on Camparis, and lots of mangoes.

[b54red]

It looks like you are off to a good start and I hope it continues for a great harvest. Just as yours is beginning ours is slowing down drastically with the diseases, pests, rain and heat combining to really make things difficult.

Bill

[tryno12]

Ginger, how would i get seeds for Camparis for my next spring seedlings?
This is my 2nd haul of season - (a bit early because of the critter of some sort) didn't want the #!$#$@@#$@ to get anymore! Anyone know what takes bites like that at night??
Thanks
Pete

[pjhootch]

Originally Posted by tryno12

Ginger, how would i get seeds for Camparis for my next spring seedlings?
This is my 2nd haul of season - (a bit early because of the critter of some sort) didn't want the #!$#$@@#$@ to get anymore! Anyone know what takes bites like that at night??
Thanks
Pete

Pete, Here in Iowa it is the chipmunks that take bites like that out of my tomatoes.

[tryno12]

hootch, are chipmunks active at night?

[pjhootch]

Originally Posted by tryno12

hootch, are chipmunks active at night?

Not mine. Possums or raccoons maybe?

[tryno12]

Paul, your harvest is looking good and I am going to look into a couple of your varieties to maybe grow next year. My 2nd haul is shown - 3 layers deep draining in sink because I had to pick before whatever critter picks before me

Ginger, how would i get seeds for Camparis for my next spring seedlings?
This is my 2nd haul of season - (a bit early because of the critter of some sort) didn't want the darn thing to get anymore! Anyone know what takes bites like that at night??
Thanks
Pete

[AlittleSalt]

Its looking good

[pjhootch]

That looks great. We are just starting here in Iowa too. We have had cherries for a couple of weeks but only a couple of Dixie Golden and a Purple Cherokee for slicing so far. How do you like the Kellogg? I have a few huge ones that arent ripening yet and am curious if others like them.

[PaulF]

For the fifteen years of growing heirlooms/OP tomatoes, Kellogg's Breakfast and KBX, its brother/sister, is a variety that seems to always be in my garden.

As an Iowan relocated to Nebraska, I am still a Hawkeye at heart. Where is your location? My Iowa locations were Red Oak, Coralville and Oskaloosa and spent four years in Cedar Falls at UNI.

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by PaulF

For the fifteen years of growing heirlooms/OP tomatoes, Kellogg's Breakfast and KBX, its brother/sister, is a variety that seems to always be in my garden.

As an Iowan relocated to Nebraska, I am still a Hawkeye at heart. Where is your location? My Iowa locations were Red Oak, Coralville and Oskaloosa and spent four years in Cedar Falls at UNI.

Paul, what a great question.

I'm one of those people who has never lived more than 50 miles from where I was born 52 years ago.

Summer lasts from late May through mid October. Which are not my favorite months, but living here for 52 years - I know what to expect. Winters can be cold/mild/wet/dry. I guess I like the diversity of it all. If you drive 100 miles in any direction in Texas and you'll experience different things. Drive several hundred miles and nature is even more different. Yet, the people are still the same - friendly and glad to see you - not your money so much.

The big cities are different, and I avoid them. But even in those cities, there are people that care.

[pjhootch]

Originally Posted by PaulF

For the fifteen years of growing heirlooms/OP tomatoes, Kellogg's Breakfast and KBX, its brother/sister, is a variety that seems to always be in my garden.

As an Iowan relocated to Nebraska, I am still a Hawkeye at heart. Where is your location? My Iowa locations were Red Oak, Coralville and Oskaloosa and spent four years in Cedar Falls at UNI.

Paul,

We are in the Quad Cities- and have been here for about 10 years now. Before that we were out in Cedar County for 13 years while I went to law school in Iowa City and opened up a practice in the Quad Cities and commuted. I knew Coralville very well in late 90's- not so much anymore since it is quite overgrown.

Before that- Staten Island NY and before that- Alaska. I have grown backyard gardens in all of those places. Hard to know what is home anymore since I am nostalgic about all of them at this age. :-)

[Gardeneer]

Have a great season, Paul !
When you are starting we, in the south , are losing steam. But still harvesting some and some of us has back up second crop . Mine are doing ok . Some of them are flowering and setting fruits.
Sungold deserves credit. It is still pumping. So doe IS-PL and Cuostralee.

[Jonnyhat]

135 plants, and i am swimming in tomatoes, this is ungodly or godly... can anyone tell me how I can quit my day job and turn this into a living? (Seriously)