The Count, July 23, 2011
Hey Ladies, Call Me Mr. TomatoTown!
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 from this variety. We also mark the passing of our Berkley Tie-Dye Green tomato plant. It succumbed to an unknown disease. Farmer T’s mission this week is to learn about tomato plant diseases. Sigh. Very sad to lose a plant.
Mr. TomatoTown is built from our harvest this week: Beam’s Yellow Pear, Striped Roman, Orange Icicle, Yellow Brandywine, Riesentraube, Druzba, Emerald Evergreen, San Marzano, and Violet Jasper.
Lovely! What are the striped, elongated beauties on the bottom right and left?
The striped tomatoes are Striped Roman. They are a much like what one might expect from a cross between an Opalka and a Berkley Tie-Dye. Good taste too! We have lost quite a few of them to blossom rot, unfortunately.
The only plant I am having BER problems with is Green Zebra…it is notoriously prone to it though.
One more question….what is the white one?
That one is a Yellow Brandywine. It is not thoroughly ripe yet.