My 2013-2014 season Downunder

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Hi everyone.
Once again I endeavoured to grow lots of tomatoes this season and I have been fairly successful albeit a bit slow to post some of my results on Tomatoville as I have been very busy.

I grew about 20-25 varieties this year with the majority being new ones for me.
Season started of very average with a very cool late spring and very cool December which is our first month of summer. I got spider mites on my cucumbers and what I suspect may be russet mite on my tomato plants but I still have a few standing with green ripening fruit on them.
On top of that I had some weird thing going on with the leaf stems growing twisted which I have never seen before nor could I work out what it is and to really top it of some record breaking 5 day heatwave in early January.

I also had a bad time with birds again but thems the breaks I suppose.

Most of you will now be starting to look after your seedlings looking forward to harvesting in the next few months and I'll be looking at your pics salivating as I usually do here in the winter.

So on to a few pics.

First harvest was early January. Just before the heatwave.



Then we had the heatwave. I'm surprised those pumpkins survived and produced.



Thankfully, things settled down after that and things got growing.
This one was a robust unknown variety that grew in my youngest daughters flowerpot so we decided to plant it.
Good producer and taste. I suspect it may be a Paragon but have no real way of knowing.



Cornu des Andes



Another weird thing I noticed from early in the season this time around was splitting. I normally have a good watering regime but something was not right this year.
Here I was picking early due to splitting. Later I was picking early due to birds.



Large Barred Boar.