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[tessa]

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[Raymondo]

They look delectable Tessa!

I've just finished planting out. I have 111 plants (64 varieties) in the garden. Some don't look too hot so that number may come down. It's quite a few more than I would normally grow so I wouldn't mind if some of them keel over before their time!
A lot of them are new to me this year. A couple of the newies I'm looking forward to are Arbuznyi, Berkeley Tie Dye, Gran's Portuguese Neighbour, Katinka, KBX and Sarnowski Polish Plum.

Edit: Thought I'd add the list

Standards
Arbuznyi
Bendigo Big Red
Berkeley Tie Dye
Black from Tula (potato leaf so I don't know what it is!)
Box Car Willie
Cherokee Chocolate
Cherokee Purple
College Abundant
College Challenger
College Conquest
College Red
College Regal
Eva Purple Ball
Fritsche
Furry Red Boar
Golden Boy F1
Gran's Portuguese Neighbour
Green Giant
Green Zebra
Grub's Mystery Green
Jaune Flammée
JD's Special C-Tex
KBX
Kellogg's Breakfast
Kimberly
Large Barred Boar
Lilian's Yellow Heirloom
Neves Azorean Red
Pale Perfect Purple
Palmwoods
Purple Russian
Rainy's Maltese
Regina's Yellow
Rose de Berne
Sarnowski Polish Plum
Stump of the World
Tasmanian Blushing Yellow
Valencia
Willie Brown

Cherries
Black Cherry
Dr Carolyn Pink
Galina's Yellow
Golden Grape
Katinka
Rose Quartz Multiflora
Snow White
Yellow Grape

Dwarf Project
Chocolate Champion F3
Chocolate Champion F4
Dinky F2
Dizzy F1
Dreamy F2
Jaunty F2
Loopy F2
Muddy F1
Muddy F2
Plucky F2
Quirky F2
Sleepy F2
Streaky F1
Streaky F2
Tipsy F2


Other Projects
Galina's Yellow x Grub's Mystery Green #2 F2 (looking for a large yellow and a green cherry)
Jaune Flammée x Paragon #14 F3 (looking for an orange plum type)
Jaune Flammée x Paragon J F3 (looking for a larger Jaune Flammée)

[Grub]

What, Med!
You call your rams by first names?
That confirms it. Lol.

[tessa]

wow ray...
you're obsessed.


fingers crossed for you new-uns.

[Medbury Gardens]

Originally Posted by Grub

What, Med!
You call you rams by first names?
That confirms it. Lol.

Yer it was the kids pet Grub, if it had a last name also you would have to start to worry.

Good luck Ray

[Grub]

He he he, Med.

I agree. Ray is obsessed.

He needs help.

[Raymondo]

I need help? I'm not the one with a ram called Bob!

Already lost one. Kimberly bit the dust. No idea why. Anyway, I dug up a feral tomato from the garden at work, last year in that spot in the garden was a largish red cherry, and will put it in Kimberly's place!

[Patrina_Pepperina]

So far I'm having a waaayyyyy better season than the last two seasons, and I feel particularly lucky because after several tries I actually have Cherokee Purple growing successfully this year (and with decent looking fruit). It was the earliest to set in my garden

Can't take a nice pic from the other side of the plant because I can't get in there with the camera.



Click for larger image

My climate seems to bring out flavour particularly well so I'm really looking forward to these fruits. Maybe they'll be ripe in time for Christmas, which would be awesome!

Patrina

[Grub]

Great news about the season. So happy for you.
CP is a pretty good one up here.

But I'm interested to see if it does the same thing for you as it does for me (and Mantis). That is, it sets some nice clusters early before shutting down production entirely.

[tessa]

looks awesome, patrina! congrats. i really hope you get a taste of this one.

[Medbury Gardens]

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[Medbury Gardens]

Originally Posted by Grub

Great news about the season. So happy for you.
CP is a pretty good one up here.

But I'm interested to see if it does the same thing for you as it does for me (and Mantis). That is, it sets some nice clusters early before shutting down production entirely.

Grub i have found the same thing with my Great whites and Black krims that is the first set of flowers set fruit well, but from then up only about a 50% are setting, y ?????? i`m giving all the flowers a flick up to 3 times a day including all the dwarfs that so far are setting 100% even up the third and fourth set.

[LenaBeanNZ]

Nice looking tomatoes Tessa. And Bob looks lovely too

This is my first tomato, a Cherokee Purple. Really its about the fourth, but the blossoms keep turning brown at the stem falling off! Just when the fruit is beginning to show under the wilting petals. Why does CP do this? Its devastating!
Its the one plant I started in July 4 weeks befor the rest because I just couldnt wait, so its the first to set fruit. Oxheart and Yellow Brandywine are catching up by now though.

I just did a count last week, Im up to 124 with another 50 or so to go in. Hopefully less if I can find some restraint.
64 varieties.

I hope the picture attached.

Lena

[Raymondo]

Great news PP. CP is worth it.

64 varieties Lena, same as me, but I only have 111 plants.

[tessa]

maybe there is something wrong with me.
i have much less than 64 varieties.