Photoes from the end of this season

Andrey_BY · December 23, 2007

Even it's a Christmas/New Year times there are still a lot of harvest pictures in my PC. Here are some of them from September-October... First of all here are my remaining tomato pics

1. Sakharnyi Bizon
2. New semi-hollow strain of Reisetomato
3. De Barao Orangevyi
4. Dagestanskiy (from Tania and Tamara Yashchenko)
5. Oziris
6. Orange Russian 117
7. Frantsuzskiy Grozdevoy
8. Max (improved Moskvich)
9. Green Giant
10. Rozovyi Myod (Pink Honey)
11. Zolotaya Rybka
12. Zolotaya Rybka
13. Utyonok
14. Roza vetrov
15. Sakharnyi Bizon (again)
16. Zolotoy
17. Juhas
18. Max (again)
19. Arkticheskaya Vishnya (turned to be red dwarf cherry and not pink as was declared on the seed pack)
20. Boets (a.k.a. Bouyan)
21. Mazarini
22. Uralskiy Ranniy
23. Zolotaya Rybka (again)
24. Kron-Prince
25. Lotos
26. Orange Russian 117 (again)
27. Malakhitovaya Shkatulka

Merry Christmas and a fruitful New 2008 Year!

matereater · December 23, 2007

Nice pics Andrey! but whats in the jar in front of the pumkin on the right?? it looks the color of beets, but the size of olives ??

**mdvpc** · December 23, 2007

Andrey-my Zimnyaya Vishnya is not a cherry at all-its about 3 oz and it is red.

Andrey_BY · December 24, 2007

Micahel - of course, it was my fault here. I'm correcting it now to the right name - Arkticheskaya Vishnya.

Matereater, this is a 3 l jar with our favorite campot from the local red/purple grapes called Isabella. This variety is very hardy and tastes well. Almost all our neighboors grow it and we are as well. Look, this is our 15 y.o. Isabella

Andrey_BY · December 25, 2007

Some more tomatoes + other vegetables and dacha views...

Notes:
Red cabbage: Calibos
Purple sweet pepper: Nokturn
Purple cauliflower: Lilovyi Shar
Kohlrabi: Gigant

Rena · December 25, 2007

Your garden is so beautiful. I can't imagine having such good dirt. Those cabbage are huge!!
Do you leave your squash to frost then pick them up?

Andrey_BY · December 25, 2007

Thanks, Rena.
This black dirt is there due to annual manure and compost adding during last 18 years

Parents of my wife started to cultivate this piece of the land made of sand and forest ground in the late 1980s when they were honored to rent this land. But we are still can't buy even a very small piece of land in our country unfortunately...
Squshes are very tender to frost and should be picked up strictly before your usual first frost date!

tessa · December 25, 2007

wow...amazing stuff, andrey. thanks for the peek into your garden!

now...isabella grapes...
correct me if i'm wrong...but they're called concords in north america and are native to there. i think i found this out when i was desperately trying to get my hands on a concord grape vine here in perth. still no luck...but there are the odd 'isabella' out there...and i'm hoping to snag one!

dcarch · December 25, 2007

Andrey,

Very nice garden.

What's that bomb looking thing in one of the pictures?

dcarch

Andrey_BY · December 26, 2007

Tessa, I'm not sure about Isabella=Concord. Isabella is our local name from Soviet Union times...

Dcarch, this bomb is a gasoline (kerosin) tank of Soviet Navy plane and we are using it as a washbowl

My wife's father was a Navy technician (engineer) for the Soviet Army as well as the most of our neigboors. So our garden community is full of such old tanks from Soviet Army planes. People are usually use them as a capacity for water storage and as a part of washbowl or shower system

PNW_D · December 26, 2007

Very nice harvest Andrey,

And of course I must ask - did you have a favourite tastings tomato from the pictures you posted? Malakhitovaya Shkatulka looks amazing

Andrey_BY · December 26, 2007

Malakhitovaya Shkatulka, Sakharnyi Bizon, Oziris and Mazarini were the best tasting. Plus Orange-1, Boloto, Izumrudnoe Yabloko and Orangevyi Gigant - from non-posted but also grown this year.

crazytomato · December 29, 2007

I hope you had a nice christmas time with your family.That picture of that great looking meal is mouth watering too me.I can almost tasted it.

Melissa · January 7, 2008

Amazing Andrey! The Orange Russian tomato looks luscious. Your carrots are WOW.

Andrey_BY · January 7, 2008

Thanks, Melissa! That is probably because we love our land and grow vegetables not only for fun but for food mainly! So if we have no good soil and don't work hard there will be no good harvest and winter-spring time without vitamins...

December 23, 2007	#2
matereater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: S.E. Michigan (Livonia) Posts: 1,264	Nice pics Andrey! but whats in the jar in front of the pumkin on the right?? it looks the color of beets, but the size of olives ?? __________________ Steve Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult

December 23, 2007	#3
mdvpc Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 4,386	Andrey-my Zimnyaya Vishnya is not a cherry at all-its about 3 oz and it is red. __________________ Michael

December 24, 2007	#4
Andrey_BY Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minsk, Belarus, Eastern Europe (Zone 4a) Posts: 2,278	Micahel - of course, it was my fault here. I'm correcting it now to the right name - Arkticheskaya Vishnya. Matereater, this is a 3 l jar with our favorite campot from the local red/purple grapes called Isabella. This variety is very hardy and tastes well. Almost all our neighboors grow it and we are as well. Look, this is our 15 y.o. Isabella __________________ 1 kg=2.2 lb , 1 m=39,37 in , 1 oz=28.35 g , 1 ft=30.48 cm , 1 lb= 0,4536 kg , 1 in=2.54 cm , 1 l = 0.26 gallon , 0 C=32 F Andrey a.k.a. TOMATODOR

December 25, 2007	#7
Andrey_BY Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minsk, Belarus, Eastern Europe (Zone 4a) Posts: 2,278	Thanks, Rena. This black dirt is there due to annual manure and compost adding during last 18 years Parents of my wife started to cultivate this piece of the land made of sand and forest ground in the late 1980s when they were honored to rent this land. But we are still can't buy even a very small piece of land in our country unfortunately... Squshes are very tender to frost and should be picked up strictly before your usual first frost date! __________________ 1 kg=2.2 lb , 1 m=39,37 in , 1 oz=28.35 g , 1 ft=30.48 cm , 1 lb= 0,4536 kg , 1 in=2.54 cm , 1 l = 0.26 gallon , 0 C=32 F Andrey a.k.a. TOMATODOR

December 25, 2007	#9
dcarch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: NY Posts: 2,618	Andrey, Very nice garden. What's that bomb looking thing in one of the pictures? dcarch __________________ tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato tomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomatomato matomato

December 25, 2007	#6
Rena Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Warm Springs, GA Posts: 1,421	Your garden is so beautiful. I can't imagine having such good dirt. Those cabbage are huge!! Do you leave your squash to frost then pick them up?

December 25, 2007	#8
tessa Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: perth, western australia Posts: 1,031	wow...amazing stuff, andrey. thanks for the peek into your garden! now...isabella grapes... correct me if i'm wrong...but they're called concords in north america and are native to there. i think i found this out when i was desperately trying to get my hands on a concord grape vine here in perth. still no luck...but there are the odd 'isabella' out there...and i'm hoping to snag one!

December 26, 2007	#10
Andrey_BY Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minsk, Belarus, Eastern Europe (Zone 4a) Posts: 2,278	Tessa, I'm not sure about Isabella=Concord. Isabella is our local name from Soviet Union times... Dcarch, this bomb is a gasoline (kerosin) tank of Soviet Navy plane and we are using it as a washbowl My wife's father was a Navy technician (engineer) for the Soviet Army as well as the most of our neigboors. So our garden community is full of such old tanks from Soviet Army planes. People are usually use them as a capacity for water storage and as a part of washbowl or shower system __________________ 1 kg=2.2 lb , 1 m=39,37 in , 1 oz=28.35 g , 1 ft=30.48 cm , 1 lb= 0,4536 kg , 1 in=2.54 cm , 1 l = 0.26 gallon , 0 C=32 F Andrey a.k.a. TOMATODOR

December 26, 2007	#11
PNW_D Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: West Coast, Canada Posts: 961	Very nice harvest Andrey, And of course I must ask - did you have a favourite tastings tomato from the pictures you posted? Malakhitovaya Shkatulka looks amazing __________________ D.

December 29, 2007	#13
crazytomato Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: the netherlands Posts: 137	I hope you had a nice christmas time with your family.That picture of that great looking meal is mouth watering too me.I can almost tasted it.

January 7, 2008	#14
Melissa Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Southwestern Ohio Posts: 54	Amazing Andrey! The Orange Russian tomato looks luscious. Your carrots are WOW.