Loads of Tomatoes
I am at the point where I am going to stop counting the fruit that are on the plants and just count the fruit that come off. I have well over 200 tomatoes on my plants now with more on the way.
This first picture is from my Carbon Tomato that was a megabloom. It is very ugly, but I can’t wait to see how big it will get, and once it starts to darken I think it will be a very pretty piece of fruit.
This next one is from my Purple Russian plant, which is a roma shaped tomato. If you notice the one in the upper left was also a megabloom, so the shape on the tomato is quite a bit different.
This next one is my biggest tomato so far, as well as the most productive plant. It is the Golden King of Siberia, and this one seems pretty close to a pound already. My hands are a pretty decent size, and I threw a quarter in there for reference. Reading reviews on this plant it is said that it may not be the tastiest tomato out there but they are very productive.
This is my Green Malakite plant. It is the king of the garden right now and over 5 feet tall. Over 20 fruit on this plant and looking forward to slicing it up for some grilled cheese or BLT’s.
This is from my Sungold Select II plant, and I mistakenly thought earlier in the week that it was my Black Cherry plant.
The next 3 are Brave General, Cosmonaut Volkov, and then Monomahk’s Hat (I am not sure which is which on the first two).
The last tomato here is from my Cour Di Bue plant, an italian oxheart. A very pretty tomato, I cannot wait to bite into one of these.
My peppers are doing really well too. I am a little disappointed that I have less Jalapeno plants than I thought. I still have 8 plants, but the two that I thought were regular Jalapenos turned out to be Bishop’s Crown peppers.
This is one of my Early Jalapenos.
Here is my favorite, my Purple Jalapeno. I might have to eat one of these this week, they just look tasty.
The last pepper here is from my Big Jim plant. This pepper is a monster!
The rest of the garden is growing great. The Basil is in need of some pruning, I would love to try making pesto. We had our first two zucchini last night for supper, and the carrots are starting to get to edible size.
Next week will be a very late post, probably not until Saturday night. Going on a bit of a holiday as the brits say it. Hopefully it rains a bit here at home while I am gone 🙂
You can have our rain. I couldn’t even go in the backyard to check on the garden today- it’s just so wet, and we just got another dumping.
I’m glad you’ll have a great tomato harvest, from the looks of it! You realize we’re spending labor day weekend eating nothing but tomatoes, right? I’ll bring the bacon…
Lots and lots and lots of bacon 🙂 BLT’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
Man your Tom’s are Huge, I have a ton of little ones, oh wait that’s right some SUN might help, LOL. We had a nice day today so we’ll see. Nice looking garden and feel free to send some of those Jalapeno’s home with sis.
We have definitely had perfect weather here since the second week of June. I have only had to water once. We have had good sunshine for 4-5 days straight, then a bit of rain, then rinse and repeat. It has been absolutely perfect.
That and a little prayer hasn’t seemed to hurt any 🙂
Hey Ben! My wierd pepper plant is just starting to put out buds. You think they’re Bishop’s Crowns? I’ll have to look that one up.
It is the same as Peri Peri, that plant has 12 or so different names.
Updates?
Seeing as it is my normal day to post I will take some more pictures tonight and make an updated post 🙂