My first taste of Brandywine and fall garden results

[mikej]

Hello All, Yeah I know I have not been on here in a while.

My Ferry Morse brandywine seed (potato leaf) turned out to be pinks. They are delicious. Of course that is relative. The only tomatoes I have eaten in my life have come from the store or commercial farms. These tomatoes are huge and the plants are 8' tall. I have 16 plants and have had very few insect problems. A little blight has started showing up, but I have sprayed them with Copper that seems to be keeping it in check. I do have quite a few tomatoes on them varying from pea size to a little larger than softball size. I had many blossoms, but not all produced fruit. I am chalking it up to the natural plant's ability to abort to keep it form being overloaded with the huge fruit. I also had some deformed tomatoes. I think that it is referred to "cat facing" and also to "superblooms". My wife, neighbors, and I love the flavor of these tomatoes. They have thin skins and once picked do not have a long shelf life at all.

I still have three grape plant, one Better boy, one Tasti-Lee, and one German Giant that have not produced any fruit yet. I also have 6 Grape plants that I started from the seed of a commercially grown grape that I was curious as to what I would get. They are loaded down with tomatoes and taste good, but not as sweet as their parents did.

I harvested many conk peas and placed them in the freezer. Since it has cooled off a little they slowed down production. The fungal diseases also hit them pretty hard. I pulled the plants today.

My okra is still doing pretty good. Picking about every 4 days. I have Emerald this time, but will go back to Clemson Spineless next season.

Merry Christmas!!!!!