Tomato Pictures 2014

[Smart Red]

DigitS, they look a lot like my Isis Candy. Wanna trade a few seeds?

I'll have to take a photo of my Spoon tomatoes. You think picking your Coyotes is slow going. These are the size of garbanzo beans... all skin with little room for meat or seeds.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Here's a couple of Dead Sea Man pics. Sorry couldn't get a pic of them sliced, they all went straight to the canner with all of the other maters!

I highly enjoyed growing this variety - shorter plants which means no extremely bushy 10+ ft tall tomatoes starving the other plants of sunlight, they required nothing heavy-duty to be staked with, and were productive especially for their size. As for taste - I'm not a tomato person but they were better than some of the others I've tried. Everybody esle loved them along with the Pink Brandywines and Red Zebras (thanks HTQ!).

The only tomato that I can really eat and enjoy so far would be Kellogg's Breakfast (I'll probably be trying some more yellow/orange varieties next year, the white ones might also be good. This is after I use up the seed that I bought of about 20 other varieties!). I still can't eat more than about 1/3 of a Kellogg's every few days. It's just for some reason my stomach (+taste buds) and tomatoes don't get along.

 

[Hal]

It's my torture season too, I am usually the first here on TEG to post tomato pictures, but they burn up fast and then it is my turn to be tortured by beautiful tomato pics. Be sure to post pictures of your tomatoes when we are all in winter time......and call @seedcorn attention to your tomato pics.....so he can hate on somebody besides me for a change.

I will see what I can do. This year my area with dry air is in drought so I might be growing somewhere humid.

 

[digitS']

Wow!

You can make those kinds of choices, @Hal ? I have 3 gardens: A too tiny one here at home, one with great wind protection but which surprises me with early frost now & then, and one really exposed to lots of sun and wind. Humidity must all be about the same.

I've got 3 nice tomato plants in 5 gallon pots here at home ... the rest of them were nearly blown off the map in the early summer windstorms!

Maybe I should have them in bags. I know of a Colorado gardener who has lots of tomatoes who does that. She put the bags in laundry baskets so they can be carted out of harm's way if a hailstorm rolls in ..!

Steve

 

[Hal]

Wow!

You can make those kinds of choices, @Hal ? I have 3 gardens: A too tiny one here at home, one with great wind protection but which surprises me with early frost now & then, and one really exposed to lots of sun and wind. Humidity must all be about the same.

I've got 3 nice tomato plants in 5 gallon pots here at home ... the rest of them were nearly blown off the map in the early summer windstorms!

Maybe I should have them in bags. I know of a Colorado gardener who has lots of tomatoes who does that. She put the bags in laundry baskets so they can be carted out of harm's way if a hailstorm rolls in ..!

Steve

I have three locations but only two for tomatoes, I think this year it is less of a choice since the drought seems to have made my mind up for me.

 

[digitS']

I've been shooting at tomatoes with the tablet camera, again!

@Jared77 , I believe it was, asked about the Pink Bumblebees that I am growing this year. I'm not sure what to think about them. DW claims that their skin is too tuff ... Nah, I don't think so. The flavor is good. Notice the range in size. They have to be defined as a cherry but the largest is the size of a small plum. Coloring is attractive but they aren't dramatically marked. The plant has not been very productive in my garden.

Here is heirloom Ildi:

I like Ildi. It will be loaded with fruit right up until frost. It's rather late getting started this year, I'm not sure why.

I tried for 4 seasons to grow one of DW's favorites, Yellow Pear. They just split, split & split! Ildi doesn't. Notice that they aren't all pear-shaped. The largest is nearly round. Some of these are not quite ripe (true with the Bumblebee, also).

Ildi isn't real sweet. Tart, maybe a little "citrusy" . . .

digitS'

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I have neglected my tomatoes and taking pictures. I just remembered I did have some pictures in August and the picture with the jelly just the other day.

 

[digitS']

Pantano Romanesco in a bed of Heinz paste tomatoes:

This is one, full-flavored heirloom! Ginny, @barefootgardener , sent me the seeds in 2013 and this is the 2nd year for Pantano Romanesco in my garden. The one above is just a little sunscalded on top but, otherwise, in fine shape.

I've had a few ripe fruits off the Pantano Romanesco plant - it just barely ripened fruit in 2013. So, it is just a little late for my environment. Here is how Tomatofest describes it, "bursting with wonderful, rich, complex tomato flavors."

Heinz 2653: This is only the 2nd time that I've had a paste tomato in my garden. The first time was a mistake! I thought Viva Italia was a saladette and grew it about 15 years ago.

Heinz 2653 is a 68 day, determinate variety and those 68 days are the earliest that I found for a paste. It is just now ripening and the small plants have been loaded! The ones in the picture will probably not be fully ripe until the weekend but there is another basket of them in the kitchen. I ate one - only the 3rd that I've tried. I expect it to be fine in sauce. It is surprisingly more sweet than I remember the Viva Italia.

I'll tell you what tho', The Pantano Romanesco has a good deal more flavor, fresh! When DW is about ready for dinner, I'll cook up some sea shells pasta and serve that big tomato on the pasta and under a version of my veggie cheese sauce. It'll be good!

Steve

 

[ninnymary]

Steve, you're a sweetheart to be cooking dinner for your wife. That dish you're going to make sounds delcious!

Mary

 

[digitS']

Well, thanks Mary.

It's just mac and cheese .

I left out the Dijon mustard, went with cream cheese instead of sour cream (that tomato is acidic enuf), cheddar, tossed the pasta with olive oil ... fresh ground black pepper. Easy peasy.

digitS'