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The Count, Sep 13, 2009

The Chicken of Happiness

Tomato Town, by the numbers.
Total number harvested: 2,366

Number harvested over the last 7 days: 193

By variety (totals to date)
(last count + 7 days’ harvest = new total)

Black Krim: 80 + 1 = 81
Beam’s Yellow Pear: 491 + 34 = 525
Mortgage Lifter: 37 + 4 = 41
Stupice: 133 + 4 = 137
Black Cherry: 134 + 54 = 188
Paul Robeson: 15 + 2 = 17
Cherokee Purple: 80 + 4 = 84
Super Snow White: 258 + 21 = 279
Black Tula: 18 + zero harvested = 18
Martino’s Roma: 52 + 1 = 53
Julia Child: 30 + 3 = 33
Volunteers: 642 + 45 = 687
KBX: 17 +  zero harvested =  17
Kellogg’s Breakfast: 10 + 1 = 11
Brandywine: 41 + 4 =  45
Cuostralee: 17 + 1 = 18
Box Car Willie: 41 + 11 = 52
Amish: 35 + zero harvested = 35
Pink Caspian: 10 + 1 = 11
Giant Belgium: 17 + 2 = 19
Aussie: 15 + zero harvested = 15

If our garden had chickens, then maybe we wouldn’t have the bug problems that have decimated our harvest over the past few weeks! This was a bad, bad week for bugs. Farmer T has been too busy with other endeavors to look into bug abatement steps, but during this week, that will all change.

Of note, our Beam’s Yellow Pear plant has exceeded the 500 mark. It has nearly produced as many fruit as all of our volunteer plants combined. Through windstorms and microbursts, Mr. Pear has been knocked over at least 3 times. We gave up, and he is currently sprawling across the lawn, continuing to grow and blossom!

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