The Count – One Month’s Harvest, Aug 8, 2010
The Count
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 of our plots, though the plants are bravely continuing to produce fruit. At this time last year we had a total harvest of 781.
Our no-shows are: Aussie, Berkeley Tie Die (lazy hippies) and Brandywine (Sudduth’s Strain). Those plants are towards the west end of our plots, and get the least amount of sun. It’s interesting that our Beam’s Yellow Pear, normally a stellar producer, has only produced 51 fruit, compared to 219 at this time last year. We moved him west this year, which I’m sure is the reason for the lack of production.
TomatoTown, by the numbers.
By variety (last count + 14 days harvest = totals to date)
Total number harvested: 1250
Total number harvested over two weeks: 834
Aunt Ruby’s German Green: 0 + 9 = 9
Aussie: 0
Beam’s Yellow Pear: 6 + 45 = 51
Berkeley Tie Die: 0
Black Cherry: 35 + 167 = 202
Black from Tula: 1 + 3 = 4
Black Krim: 5 + 9 = 14
Brandywine (Sudduth’s Strain): 0
Brandywine: 3 + 4 = 7
Burracker’s Favorite: 0 + 1 = 1
Carbon: 5 + 4 = 9
Cherokee Purple: 10 + 8 = 18
Creole: 3 + 5 = 8
Earl’s Faux: 4 + 4 = 8
Eva Purple Ball: 2 + 4 = 6
Giant Pelina: 6 + 15 = 21
Isis Candy: 7 + 28 = 35
JD’s Special C-Tex: 5 + 3 = 8
Japanese Black Trifele: 12 + 23 = 35
Keith’s Mystery: 0 + 9 = 9
Kosovo: 2 + 4 = 6
Limmony: 6 + 2 = 8
Mr. Stripey (Tigerella): 19 + 71 = 90
Mule Team: 2 + 1 = 3
Opalka: 5 + 22 = 27
Paul Robeson: 5 + 5 = 10
Rutgers VFA: 1 + 0 = 1
Stump of the World: 3 + 1 = 4
Stupice: 59 + 43 = 102
Sungold: 192 + 322 = 514
Tom’s Yellow Wonder: 2 + 1 = 3
Volunteers: 9 + 28 = 37
Damaged: 13 + 10 = 23
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