Sunday, August 23, 2009

Here Are My Tomatoes

I think this is Pineapple, a Black Tomato and "fig" tomatoes. The fig tomatoes really don't taste like figs at all. Maybe I got them mixed up with some ordinary tomato. I haven't tried the others yet but will shortly . I don't quite see any avalanches of tomatoes coming, as they seem to be getting ripe only a few at a time.

The Japanese cucumbers are producing at a decent pace, also not enough for major surpluses, but enough to eat.

At the top of the photo are those muskmelons. Probably a few days away from ripe, but bugs were showing too much interest in them to leave them on the ground. Husk cherries at the bottom of the picture.

5 comments:

  1. Petaluma Urban Homesteaders here... Let's connect through the Homegrown Guild organized by Daily Acts (also in Petaluma). Just e-mail their office and hook up. Or, through Amy at Petaluma Bounty. We are her neighbors.

    YOU Keep up the good work!!!! Go Petaluma!

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  2. You got it. I will find you soon!

    Go team!

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  3. I grew the fig tomatoes last year. They are called that because back in the "olden days" people dried them and packed them in sugar as a kind of fig substitute. I didn't find them particularly remarkable as tomatoes.

    http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/programs/ark_product_detail/red_fig_tomato/

    How do you use your husk cherries? I find them a little strong to eat plain.

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  4. We just found that same information. Hmmm... I suppose I could dry all kinds of things out, put sugar on them and call them figs, or I could just grow figs, which I am working on.

    The tomato called "pineapple", however is smooth and delicious. I will try to grow it again next year. http://rosecottagegarden.blogspot.com/2007/08/pineapple-tomato.html

    Mine is completely orange with no red in it, but similar tomato.

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  5. I have just been eating the husk cherries or putting them in salad.

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