Tag Archives: tomatoes
Harvest Time!
21-Sep-12End of tomato season.
30-Oct-11Zeralda My tomatoes performed well this year, producing fruit through October. Other growers had problems with some kind of late-season blight, which I think I avoided because I am so isolated from other growers. But diseases of this sort get harder to avoid the longer you grow things. I move my plants to new soil every […]
Compost Tomatoes.
23-Sep-11vocally This spring I had a compost-pile full of tomato seedlings. Apparently the seed has no trouble overwintering. I pulled three or four of the largest plants out and put them in good soil, and still had a number remaining. So I decided not to turn over the compost pile at all this year, and let […]
The Harvest Starts.
23-Aug-11Finally things are ripening up here. The bulk of the harvest is a month away, but I have enough tomatoes and cucumbers to start giving away. The standout so far have been the pink mini-beefsteaks, a 1.5 inch cherry tomato called “Ping Pong.” Also pictured here are yellow and red cherries, Amish paste, San Marzano, […]
The Harvest.
05-Oct-10I have not been able to photograph the harvest in detail for various reasons, but only a few photos are really necessary. The satisfactions of growing, looking at, and consuming are well known to all, though like most pleasures the experience always surpasses the memory. The yield was extraordinary, really; certainly more than a hundred […]