The Count – July 16, 2012
Two week’s harvest (July 2 – 16): 507 tomatoes and 320 cherry tomatoes Total combined harvest to date: 893 This year, we break out the cherry tomato totals since they tend to skew the entire count. Since it would take, on average, at least 20-30 cherry tomatoes to equal one beefsteak, it does not seem fair to […]
The Count, July 1, 2012
Harvest totals to date: 46 Cherry tomato variety harvest total: 20 We started harvesting tomatoes on June 23, 2012. This is easily the earliest we have ever had a ripe tomato. So far, our biggest producers have been two of our Japanese Black Trifele plants. They have produced 16 of our total for our first […]
Green Renaissance, Nov 5, 2011
An Unripe Harvest After a dry summer of record heat, cooler weather brought a resurgence of blossoms on tomato plants we had long surrendered to mother nature. These late bloomers never had a chance to ripen on the vine, so last week Farmer T and Farmer J harvested 68 pounds of green tomatoes. In the […]
The Count, Sept 1, 2011
Dear readers, there has not much to write about. We’ve been greatly disappointed with the harvest this month. The extraordinarily high temperatures of late July and early August slowed tomato production to a dribble. An informal survey of other gardeners reveals that we are not the only tomato growers in the region upset by this turn of […]
The Count, Aug 1, 2011
If we have learned anything from gardening, we’ve learned that tomato goodness comes in many colors, shapes and sizes. This week we’ve seen a serious uptick in our tomato harvest with many varieties producing ripe fruit just in time to be counted in the July harvest. Our harvest total: 549. Total this week: 404 The […]
The Count, July 23, 2011
Our harvest total: 145. Total this week: 92 Finally! We’ve gotten past the blossom-end rot issues and are starting to get a few more tomatoes. We doubled our harvest this week – pulling 92 keepers off the vines. This week’s biggest producer was Riesentraube with 17. It’s a cherry tomato, so we expect large yields […]
The Count, July 16, 2011
The First Basket of Tomatoes Our harvest total: 53 Violet Jasper is the most prolific so far, with Riesentraube in second place. Eight different varieties have stepped up to the plate, with another 50 or so on-deck. We’ve had considerable issues with blossom end rot and our forest at the back of our property has […]
The Count – One Month’s Harvest, Aug 8, 2010
It has been two weeks since our last count. Forgive us Great Tomato, for we have sinned. Aunt Ruby’s German Green is our clear favorite variety now. The plants have been slow to produce, but the taste of this tomato is out of this world. Early blight continues to spread through the middle of one […]
Count – Sungold Wins! July 25, 2010
A strong showing by our sungolds this week. Mr. Stripey is also doing well. We had several tomatoes taken out by a tomato hornworm earlier this week, but haven’t seen any further evidence of its presence. For fun, google ‘hornworm poop’ and you’ll get more information that you thought possible about this destructive little monster […]
The First Count
By variety (totals to date) Total number harvested: 131 Aunt Ruby’s German Green: 0 Aussie: 0 Beam’s Yellow Pear: 0 Berkeley Tie Die: 0 Black Cherry: 5 Black from Tula: 1 Black Krim: 1 Brandywine (Sudduth’s Strain): 0 Brandywine: 0 Burracker’s Favorite: 0 Carbon: 0 Cherokee Purple: 0 Creole: 0 Earl’s Faux: 0 Eva Purple […]
Final Count
Tomato Town, by the numbers. Total number harvested: 2,890 Number harvested over the last 35 days: 524 By variety (totals to date) (last count + 7 days’ harvest = new total) Black Krim: 81 + 8 = 89 Beam’s Yellow Pear: 525 + 108 = 633 Mortgage Lifter: 41 + 3 = 44 Stupice: 137 […]
The Count, Sep 13, 2009
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 […]
The Count, Sept 6, 2009
Tomato Town, by the numbers. Total number harvested: 2,173 Number harvested over the last 8 days: 359 By variety (totals to date): (last count + 8 days’ harvest = new total) Black Krim: 70 + 10 = 80 Beam’s Yellow Pear: 419 + 72 = 491 Mortgage Lifter: 34 + 3 = 37 Stupice: […]
The Count – Aug. 30th, 2009
Tomato Town, by the numbers. Total number harvested: 1814 Number harvested over the last 14 days: 539 By variety (totals to date): (last count + 14 days’ harvest = new total) Black Krim: 59 + 11 = 70 Beam’s Yellow Pear: 324 + 95 = 419 Mortgage Lifter: 18 + 16 = 34 Stupice: […]
The Count – August 16, 2009
Tomato Town, by the numbers. Total number harvested: 1275 Number harvested over the last 12 days: 494 By variety (totals to date): (last count + 12 days’ harvest = new total) Black Krim: 40 + 19 = 59 Beam’s Yellow Pear: 219 + 105 = 324 Mortgage Lifter: 10 + 8 = 18 Stupice: 73 […]
The Count – August 4, 2009
Tomato Town, by the numbers. Total number harvested: 781 Number harvested this past week: 408 By variety (totals to date): Black Krim: 40 Beam’s Yellow Pear: 219 Mortgage Lifter: 10 Stupice: 73 Black Cherry: 19 Paul Robeson: 2 (slacker!) Cherokee Purple: 49 Super Snow White: 75 Black Tula: 8 Martino’s Roma: 41 Julia Child: 6 […]
The Count – July 26, 2009
Tomato Town, by the numbers. Number of varieties planted: 20 Murdered ‘maters: 10 (approx.) due to squirrels, birds and worms. Total number harvested: 373 By variety: Black Krim: 32 Beam’s Yellow Pear: 81 Mortgage Lifter: 7 Stupice: 71 Black Cherry: 6 Paul Robeson: 2 (slacker!) Cherokee Purple: 46 Super Snow White: 11 Black Tula: […]
The Count – July 18, 2009
Tomato Town, by the numbers. Total number harvested: 176 By variety: Black Krim: 10 Beam’s Yellow Pear: 16 Mortgage Lifter: 6 Stupice (our first producer): 55 Black Cherry: 4 Paul Robeson: 1 Cherokee Purple: 25 Super Snow White: 2 Black Tula: 8 Martino’s Roma: 14 Julia Child: 2 Volunteers: 33
The Count – July 11, 2009
Tomato Town, by the numbers. 42 plants, planted in 15 cubic yards of topsoil. 30 tomatoes harvested as of July 11, 2009 Our Stupice plant has provided 21 tomatoes so far. We’ll be planting more of this variety next year, for sure! Tomato plant sources: – 34 plants purchased from our favorite ‘TomatoMan’ (see his […]