pics and questions - Page 2

chancethegardener · August 31, 2012

Wow! You really have beautiful plants. What have you been feeding them?

bbjm · August 31, 2012

Very nice garden. Thank you for sharing the pictures. I'm liking that bell shaped tomato. Hopefully somebody on here will know what it is. I'm finally getting a garden spot after 4 years living in a totally shaded space. I'm already planning my garden for next year. These pictures really get me going.

lakelady · August 31, 2012

Those bell shaped look like several pear tomatoes I grew this year (Goldman's Italian American, Cuneo Giant Pear, and Franchi Red Pear). Could the seed pack have been mislabeled? Possible. They are good tomatoes to eat though. Your gardens look great, you are fortunate to have had a terrific year from the looks of it. Wish I had an apple tree!

tam91 · September 1, 2012

A few years go, I bought an "oxheart" plant at the nursery, and got that exact same thing. I don't know what it was. It tasted terrible fresh, but made great sauce.

deerhunter · September 1, 2012

pear tomatos, huh. there not bad tasting at all. gave a bunch to a friend to make salsa. i fertilized with 5 10 5 over my whole garden (8000 sq ft)and on the tomatoes i made up a chicken manure brine and put that around the bottom and later on some miricle grow for tomatoes over the hole plant. then mulch with composted leaves. and the treatment with dacinol.alot work, but it payed off.

ed50 · September 1, 2012

Deerhunter, they also look a little bit like my Liguria (Coeur d'Albenga) tomatoes.

Eddy

deerhunter · September 1, 2012

yes they do, ed.

redwheelbarrow · September 2, 2012

I like kale for many reasons. It is good in salads. It is good sauteed with olive oil and vinegar and salt and pepper. It is especially good canned with tomato juice and jalepenos.

**carolyn137** · September 2, 2012

Here's a great thread from the past, with many pictures, that deals with the piriform shaped fruits of many varieties and also discusses how some Italian commercial seed providers have sent out seeds for wrong varieties to retail seed places.

http://tomatoville.com/showthread.ph...hlight=albenga

There are advantages to my having been here at Tville since it opened in Jan of 2006 and one of them is that as long as my brain cells work I can often remember some previous threads.

The search feature here is great and I'd encourage anyone wanting info about varieties to do a search in addition to checking Tania's T-base website. Start out not with the option of thread titles, rather, use the option for posts and then you can back up , usually, to a thread.

Just a gentle suggestion.

August 31, 2012	#18
lakelady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: northern NJ zone 6b Posts: 1,862	Those bell shaped look like several pear tomatoes I grew this year (Goldman's Italian American, Cuneo Giant Pear, and Franchi Red Pear). Could the seed pack have been mislabeled? Possible. They are good tomatoes to eat though. Your gardens look great, you are fortunate to have had a terrific year from the looks of it. Wish I had an apple tree! __________________ Antoniette

September 1, 2012	#19
tam91 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Crystal Lake IL Posts: 2,484	A few years go, I bought an "oxheart" plant at the nursery, and got that exact same thing. I don't know what it was. It tasted terrible fresh, but made great sauce. __________________ Tracy

September 2, 2012	#23
redwheelbarrow Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: sheboygan falls Posts: 5	what to do with kale I like kale for many reasons. It is good in salads. It is good sauteed with olive oil and vinegar and salt and pepper. It is especially good canned with tomato juice and jalepenos.

September 2, 2012	#24
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	Here's a great thread from the past, with many pictures, that deals with the piriform shaped fruits of many varieties and also discusses how some Italian commercial seed providers have sent out seeds for wrong varieties to retail seed places. http://tomatoville.com/showthread.ph...hlight=albenga There are advantages to my having been here at Tville since it opened in Jan of 2006 and one of them is that as long as my brain cells work I can often remember some previous threads. The search feature here is great and I'd encourage anyone wanting info about varieties to do a search in addition to checking Tania's T-base website. Start out not with the option of thread titles, rather, use the option for posts and then you can back up , usually, to a thread. Just a gentle suggestion. __________________ Carolyn

August 31, 2012	#16
chancethegardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: WV Posts: 604	Wow! You really have beautiful plants. What have you been feeding them?

August 31, 2012	#17
bbjm Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Kansas Posts: 155	Very nice garden. Thank you for sharing the pictures. I'm liking that bell shaped tomato. Hopefully somebody on here will know what it is. I'm finally getting a garden spot after 4 years living in a totally shaded space. I'm already planning my garden for next year. These pictures really get me going.

September 1, 2012	#20
deerhunter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: hopkinton ma. Posts: 70	pear tomatos, huh. there not bad tasting at all. gave a bunch to a friend to make salsa. i fertilized with 5 10 5 over my whole garden (8000 sq ft)and on the tomatoes i made up a chicken manure brine and put that around the bottom and later on some miricle grow for tomatoes over the hole plant. then mulch with composted leaves. and the treatment with dacinol.alot work, but it payed off.