Our 1st year with Florida weave & fish emulsion

[Tamisuem]

As the title says, 2013 was our first year using the Florida weave method of tying up plants AND using whole fish emulsion (besides organic chicken poo). I thought I'd share some pics of some of my green fruits, many of which are bigger in the green stage than what the mature fruits were indicated to be! For two years I tried to grow Jersey Giant, a bull horn shaped red paste tomato. First year I got several kinds of tomatoes out of that packet of seeds, EXCEPT a Jersey Giant. But one was a large, pink beefsteak and VERY GOOD! The next year I found Jersey Giant started plants. Bought 5. They were all the same, large pink beefsteak instead of true Jersey Giant. I saved seeds from them, altho I have no idea what they are. I have a pic of them here next to a quart jar of 'maters to show their size. They average 1 pound 4 oz, and I mean near all of them are 1 pound 4 oz of them and those plants produce a TON of them! Nearly blemish free, perfectly pink beefsteak MEATY tomatoes! Very few seeds. So, I added a pic. I DO have a pic of Stripped Roman tho, I did grow that last year and they were very good and got much bigger than the description states. The only 'mater that did NOT grow per description was Amazon Chocolate. Some were regular leaf, some were potato leaf. Most were in the 6 oz size range. Some were small and 3 lobed fruit, resembling a clover leaf. I got the seed from Baker Creek, and they are not offering them this year 2014. I saw reviews from other suppliers and others saw the same irregularities, so wonder if that is why Baker Creek pulled them from their list available.