best surprises of the season?

[lowlylowlycook]

Biggest surprise is just how many tomatoes I got from my LakeTainer.

[333.okh]

Stupice and Azoychka

My one Stupice plant has produced over 70 tomatoes so far. They are nearly all round, but some lobed. The round ones are 1.5-2 inches and the lobed are 3ish.

My one Azoychka plant has over 60 tomatoes to start and I have picked 30 something, but a gopher got it. Only gopher hole I have ever had in the area and it is under the plant. Plant is all wilted etc. I counted 37 tomatoes left o nthe plant and will see how it goes from here.

Thesetwo are must haves for my cool climate garden.

Oh yeah....wife is just raving over the Iildi tomatoes as well. She loves the taste and they nearly never make it past the garden fence before she eats them all.

[Tania]

Got another surprise today, when I checked my tomato patch after the long and cold rain we had over the weekend.

Everything that has not been covered (tomato plants) is dead.

Except for the three varieties:

- Magnum Beefsteak (it is still green and relatively healthy, no late blight signs)
- Coyote (sad plants, but no late blight or other blight issues)
- Mexican Cocktail - all the plants seem to be thriving... green and lush, and ripening the tiny tomatoes that are so sweet. I simply cannot believe it! I think they looked worse in spring/early summer...

Tania

[barkeater]

My best surprise is a red family heirloom from SE Pennsylvania called Beefsteak Plum. Last year I never got a ripe one. This year I had low expectations as the plant seemed thin and weak, and the tomatoes misshapen. What I didn't realize is Beefsteak Plum was actually a heart with that solid interior with very small seed cavities. Turns out it is the best tomato of the season in a great tomato season. The texture is that awesome creamy texture that Brandywine has, and has that tomatoey flavor I like so much. I'd post my pictures but I don't know how to compress them enough to show on this site.

[PNW_D]

barkeater - try Irfanview - downsizes pics in seconds. For uploading here I usually go to 30%

http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967

[barkeater]

Thanks, I'll give it a try tonight!

[barkeater]

When I tried to download the site my computer blocked it saying it was infected with something called surprisestare!

[RinTinTin]

I just downloaded it, and sent it to VirusTotal...they scan it with 40 anti-virus packages. Came out clean as a whistle. I then scanned it with M$Essentials and Malware bytes (which are not included in their 40). What are you using as a AV? It is giving you a 'false positive'.

Tucows is one of the oldest, most used, and most trusted DL sites on the web...I have used them since the '80's, and never had a problem, nor heard of anyone else having a problem. I don't know what your AV is, but it is time to get a REAL one. If you need a good freebie, PM me...I can probably hook you up with a good promo (6mos/1yr) of what you obviously don't have.

If you are interested, here is the VirusTotal print-out of their scan...shows which 40 AV's they used, and the results...the "blank" at the righy columb means "Nothing malicious was found"
VirusTotal - Free Online Virus, Malware and URL Scanner

[FILMNET]

Berkeley Tie Dye, maybe 6 huge 1.5 lbs , and now 10 small ones 1 lb.

[kath]

Originally Posted by FILMNET

Berkeley Tie Dye, maybe 6 huge 1.5 lbs , and now 10 small ones 1 lb.

How odd...mine ranged from 5 to 7 oz. and was one of the biggest disappointments of the season for me, even taste-wise. Plant habit and fruit appearance looked right. Grew 2 of them and they were both the same.

[ireilly]

Looks like it is not the download but some sort of advertising tucows is doing that at least someone else out in Googleland thinks is infected - see below. I removed the hyperlinks and am NOT suggesting anyone cut and paste these because I have not and cannot assure non-malicious results.

Results for: surprisestare
<LI class=g>Malware for domain: surprisestare.com - Clean MX - realtime

Sep 15, 2010 ... clean-mx , a spam and virus management system for mail servers.
support.clean-mx.de/clean-mx/viruses.php?domain=surprisestare.com...
<LI class=g>jsunpack - a generic JavaScript unpacker

Sep 15, 2010 ... URL, Status. surprisestare.com/Page_Orientation.js. surprisestare.com/Page_Orientation.js, status: (referer=www.google.com/trends/hottrends) ...
jsunpack.jeek.org/dec/go?report... - Cached
<LI class=g>Tucows serving malware through malicious ad. - ParetoLogic Forums

1 post - 1 author
advertise.tucows.com launches surprisestare.com/Page_Orientation.js. The domain surprisestare.com belongs to: Name: * * * * Roman

[dice]

[jpeg image resize]

xnview will do this (for free) with minimal fuss on a range
of Windows operating systems:
http://www.xnview.com/en/download.html
(simple rescale image, trade file size for quality on jpegs,
progressive encoding, etc)

[Direct Sunlight]

The biggest surprise for me is that there's no disease on any of the plants, and 23 of 24 are still going. That's not the normal for what I've heard of this summer. The other surprise is that the much-heralded Cherokee Purple has been the weakest of the four varieties, in both production and in plant growth. The first few tomatoes didn't taste very good etiher, but the taste improved into July to rival that of the Pink Ponderosa. Am now in a holding pattern waiting for the temps to get cool enough to get more fruit.

[bughunter99]

For me it was Striped Roman. It was a wispy wimpy seedling but boy did it ever grow into a force. Very productive, very healthy plants and the tomatoes are not only gorgeous, but they taste great too!

[FILMNET]

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3 Days Ago Quote:
Originally Posted by FILMNET
Berkeley Tie Dye, maybe 6 huge 1.5 lbs , and now 10 small ones 1 lb.

How odd...mine ranged from 5 to 7 oz. and was one of the biggest disappointments of the season for me, even taste-wise. Plant habit and fruit appearance looked right. Grew 2 of them and they were both the same.
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