Here's what 163 various tomatoes look like sitting on my piano and hanging above it. I don't know the weight and I couldn't keep track of which was which because they were all growing together. But for my records the varieties are: Amana Orange, Crimson Beefsteak, Better Boy, Oregon Spring, and Cherokee Purple.
But here is what 200 Homestead tomatoes weighing 32 pounds looks like.
And here is what 182 heirloom Roma tomatoes weighing 20 pounds looks like.
In case you are wondering why they are green... there have been rumors in the east of a shadow growing, a snow storm to be exact. We'll be ripening the tomatoes inside. Then I will attempt my first canning project. With the help of my mother thankfully.And just for fun, this is what an Amana Orange tomato looks like when it's fully ripened. Canning is to happen week after next. Let's hope it goes well.
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Yeah well, for the record, we've been eating tomatoes from the garden for many weeks prior to these getting picked. Amana Orange are a very strange experience. You could say they look like orange bell peppers in a salad or a taco, but cut up they look more like mangoes. However, they are very much delicious tasting tomatoes. We've also vine ripened a couple of the Cherokee Purple tomatoes which are also strange to behold (look like eggplant) and rather strong tasting (not sure how else to describe it).
Ellen isn't mentioning it, but the tomato forest obscured the sun from the pole beans -- there are a "few" really good looking ones. We had carrots, green onions, lettuce, some squash (we're still waiting for the outcome there), and lemon cucumbers (which didn't last long enough for photography) as well as a steady crop of cherry tomatoes. And dwarf peaches -- a lot of little dwarf peaches!!!
Apparently what we ate were "eggplant looking" Crimson Beefsteak and not the Cherokee Purple. Fun garden.
Having checked out the new gardening blog, just a note about being right the first time about Cherokee Purple, which makes sense since these were "purple" tomatoes. Must disagree about the "mild" taste. The ones we've eaten are STRONG tasting. Could be Terilynn's and my taste buds.
I'll post these and further comments on Ellen's gardening blog.
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