Certified organic produce
My goal is to produce 1000 plants – ten each of one hundred varieties.
As usual, the tomato plants in the garden have all fallen to late blight, but the tomato plants in the high tunnel greenhouse are still thriving. Here are some of our heirloom beauties.
The first tomatoes are finally ripening in my high tunnel. This is Slava, a dependably early variety.
The first fruit to ripen this year are Washington Cherry (left) and Bloody Butcher.
New varieties for 2017 planting – I just ordered these from Tomatofest. 1884 Alaskan Fancy Amy’s Apricot Aurora Black Zebra Dicoff’s Yellow Full Flavored Paste Jaffa Josephine Carter Malinowski Matina Milano Plum Pink Grapefruit Ten Fingers of Naples
This year I produced over 120 different heirloom tomato varieties, and more than 1000 plants total, in gallon containers. I have sold almost 600 of them so far this year, at wholesale, to local garden centers. I am attracting a growing customer base, who learn that my plants do better than plants from other growers.…
Growing 100+ varieties of heirloom tomatoes creates such an amazing color palette!
Last year on this date my tomato plants were already showing signs of late blight. So….this year I invested in a sprayer and an organic copper sulfate preparation to battle the blight fungus. But wouldn’t you know, here is today’s forecast of late blight danger in our area. Green = no danger. Yellow or Red…
Of the 124 varieties of tomatoes I am growing, these 4 were the first to ripen fruit.
[su_dropcap size=”2″]T[/su_dropcap]hanks to our exceptionally warm Spring, my tomato plants are three weeks ahead of where they were last year. The following varieties already have (green) fruit – Alicante Ananas Noir Bloody Butcher Buckbee’s New 50 day Burraker’s Favorite Carmello Napoli Coyote Earl of Edgecomb Eva Purple Ball Flamme Fred Limbaugh Indische Fleische Kellogs Kimberly…