The Pretties

Sorellina · August 20, 2006

Ciao all,

Here is what my dining table looked like on Aug. 10:

We've been temporarily banished to the family room for meals as you might imagine. I was up to my ears in canning yesterday, putting up a big batch of Grub's Mystery Green/Green Zebra pasta sauce, Azoychka/Manyel/Banana Legs pasta sauce, and Prue salsa. I'll be making a batch of Black From Tula/Black Krim/Purple Russian salsa tomorrow. The list goes on and on. We're eating BLTs and Caprese Salad pretty much every day. It's tomato heaven, people!

This was my harvest on Aug. 11:

Clockwise from top: Cherokee Purple, Brandywine Sudduth, Kotlas, Manyel, Bicolour Cherry, Jaune Flammee, Not Aunt Gertie's Gold Cherry (red oblate cherry), Snow White Cherry, Sungold F1, Banana Legs, Green Grape Ind?, Galina's, Not Galina's (red saladette), Orange Banana, Little Lucky, Moskvich, Kotlas, Yellow Brandywine Platfoot Strain.

Craig, note the heart shape on Little Lucky. It has persisted and I'm saving seeds from those fruits.

dcarch · August 20, 2006

Looks like Toronto is a great place for tomatoes.

dcarch

kimpossible · August 20, 2006

Beautiful, Julianna! I must be a week or two behind you, but I think you planted out before me (?) Impressive harvest - (how many plants?), & you & your family will sure appreciate all that work a few months from now! (Unless, of course, you 'defect' to that Vancouver paradise - where you can grow tomatoes practically all year round!!!!

:wink: )

kimpossible · August 20, 2006

Well, Keith, I must admit I took a holiday down East to Nova Scotia to watch the wedding ceremony of the two gay Mounties, then I came home, practiced some skeet shooting on those Albino Whistle Pigs,rode bareback on a polar bear or three, & then played a mean game of hockey. Oh yeah, and drank a 2-4 of Canadian ... just not enough hours in the day to tend to that 'mater patch! :wink:

Sorellina · August 21, 2006

LOL @ Kim & Keith! Nutbars, both of you!

Kim, I did my transplanting on 25 May, the Thursday after the frozen long weekend. Remember that? Sheesh, I thought we were going to get snow that weekend and I went to an early morning plant swap in Markham..brr. My transplants weren't the healthiest, due to some unfortunate male selective babysitting while I was in California earlier that month. I still have no blush at all on Earl's Faux Faux or Berkeley Tie Dye. The real Aunt Gertie's Gold only has 2 fruit on it and it's taking its time, but I did hear it does that, so these will be simply for seed.

You're right, though. If we manage to escape the tundra (and I'm REALLY praying hard for that), I'll ring up Tania for some tomato-growing advice. I already hinted that the boys may have to give up their corn, but the compensation is tons of berries. They're ok with the idea. That and real mountains with snow you can leave behind after a day of skiing.

Keith, you've got a 7 year old fan, by the way. He's got 3 F2's of an accidental cross between San Marzano and Yellow Pear and he's saving seeds of the one red ruffled oblate cherry he got from them (because he thinks oval reds are too common). Oh, and he wants to know if you cross a yellow cherry with a large ruffled yellow, will you get a ruffled yellow cherry? Right now it's tough to say whether he'll be a priest, a tomato geneticist, or a NASA engineer.

Cheers!

landarc · August 21, 2006

Julianna,
Looks like a wonderful harvest and some good eatin' coming down the pike.

what's a nutbar?

Star · August 22, 2006

very pretty :wink:

Sorellina · August 22, 2006

Ciao Keith,

The locules are the pockets where the seeds and gel are, correct? Something like Yellow Stuffer has quite a few locules but they're quite hollow, so I guess the difference between a juicy tomato and a hollow one would be the amount of gel the tomato produces and how do you select for that? So to get a juicy, ruffled, yellow cherry, you'd need to either do a 3 way cross of Yellow Stuffer, Galina's and then something juicy like Manyel or find a really juicy ruffled yellow tomato to do the large-fruited ruffled part of the cross with..is that close?

Hehe @ 'morals, mayhem, and money'..too true

Bob,

A nutbar is like what Americans just refer to as a 'nutty person'.

Sorellina · August 22, 2006

Ciao Keith,

Ok, that's good to know..I'm still working out how much "extra" space we'll need to do some crosses. They sound like the next step in the tomato-growing obsession and really a lot of fun.

Tomstrees · August 22, 2006

Great looking spread ~
Looks like "good eats" !

~ Tom

August 20, 2006	#1
Sorellina Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Victoria, BC Posts: 300	The Pretties Ciao all, Here is what my dining table looked like on Aug. 10: We've been temporarily banished to the family room for meals as you might imagine. I was up to my ears in canning yesterday, putting up a big batch of Grub's Mystery Green/Green Zebra pasta sauce, Azoychka/Manyel/Banana Legs pasta sauce, and Prue salsa. I'll be making a batch of Black From Tula/Black Krim/Purple Russian salsa tomorrow. The list goes on and on. We're eating BLTs and Caprese Salad pretty much every day. It's tomato heaven, people! This was my harvest on Aug. 11: Clockwise from top: Cherokee Purple, Brandywine Sudduth, Kotlas, Manyel, Bicolour Cherry, Jaune Flammee, Not Aunt Gertie's Gold Cherry (red oblate cherry), Snow White Cherry, Sungold F1, Banana Legs, Green Grape Ind?, Galina's, Not Galina's (red saladette), Orange Banana, Little Lucky, Moskvich, Kotlas, Yellow Brandywine Platfoot Strain. Craig, note the heart shape on Little Lucky. It has persisted and I'm saving seeds from those fruits. __________________ Grazie a tutti, Julianna

August 20, 2006	#2
dcarch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: NY Posts: 2,618	Looks like Toronto is a great place for tomatoes. dcarch __________________ tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato

August 20, 2006	#3
kimpossible Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Z5b SW Ont Canada Posts: 767	Beautiful, Julianna! I must be a week or two behind you, but I think you planted out before me (?) Impressive harvest - (how many plants?), & you & your family will sure appreciate all that work a few months from now! (Unless, of course, you 'defect' to that Vancouver paradise - where you can grow tomatoes practically all year round!!!! :wink: ) __________________ *So Many Tomatoes ... So Little Time*

August 20, 2006	#4
kimpossible Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Z5b SW Ont Canada Posts: 767	Well, Keith, I must admit I took a holiday down East to Nova Scotia to watch the wedding ceremony of the two gay Mounties, then I came home, practiced some skeet shooting on those Albino Whistle Pigs,rode bareback on a polar bear or three, & then played a mean game of hockey. Oh yeah, and drank a 2-4 of Canadian ... just not enough hours in the day to tend to that 'mater patch! :wink: __________________ *So Many Tomatoes ... So Little Time*

August 21, 2006	#5
Sorellina Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Victoria, BC Posts: 300	LOL @ Kim & Keith! Nutbars, both of you! Kim, I did my transplanting on 25 May, the Thursday after the frozen long weekend. Remember that? Sheesh, I thought we were going to get snow that weekend and I went to an early morning plant swap in Markham..brr. My transplants weren't the healthiest, due to some unfortunate male selective babysitting while I was in California earlier that month. I still have no blush at all on Earl's Faux Faux or Berkeley Tie Dye. The real Aunt Gertie's Gold only has 2 fruit on it and it's taking its time, but I did hear it does that, so these will be simply for seed. You're right, though. If we manage to escape the tundra (and I'm REALLY praying hard for that), I'll ring up Tania for some tomato-growing advice. I already hinted that the boys may have to give up their corn, but the compensation is tons of berries. They're ok with the idea. That and real mountains with snow you can leave behind after a day of skiing. Keith, you've got a 7 year old fan, by the way. He's got 3 F2's of an accidental cross between San Marzano and Yellow Pear and he's saving seeds of the one red ruffled oblate cherry he got from them (because he thinks oval reds are too common). Oh, and he wants to know if you cross a yellow cherry with a large ruffled yellow, will you get a ruffled yellow cherry? Right now it's tough to say whether he'll be a priest, a tomato geneticist, or a NASA engineer. Cheers! __________________ Grazie a tutti, Julianna

August 21, 2006	#6
landarc Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Left Coasty Posts: 964	Julianna, Looks like a wonderful harvest and some good eatin' coming down the pike. what's a nutbar? __________________ Lets see...$10 for Worth and $5 for Fusion, man. Tomatoes are expensive! Bob

August 22, 2006	#7
Star Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 49	very pretty :wink:

August 22, 2006	#10
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	Great looking spread ~ Looks like "good eats" ! ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale