Another day another picked harvest. Here are some white onions, carrots, pepper, acorn and spaghetti squash, zucchini and beans.
Here you can see those tomatoes that were picked earlier all turned color and have been sorted into groups - purple/black on top left, pink top right, sauce bottom left and multicolor on bottom right.
I also picked additional cherry tomatoes so they also been weighted in. Next to it is a slice of a Ananas Noire variety - now I like regular Pineapple but hope that Black Pineapple would add that hint of smokiness that dark variety have. Instead it's neither smoky or sweet and definitely not acidic. Again not impressed.
You're really bringing in the tomatoes! It's going to be difficult to stay ahead of you, but I should easily go over 400 pounds this week. It's too bad I'm not going to have a great tomato harvest.
ReplyDeleteOh I doubt that I'll catch up with you this year - considering how many plants I have I should have tripled the number. But you'll jump ahead with all your winter squash and melons while I'm yet to do weights on my onions and dig the rest of the potatoes.
DeleteNice looking harvest! All those beautiful tomatoes! Everything you've harvested looks lovely; sounds like you are having a great year in the garden!
ReplyDeleteThank you, but I'm actually having very hard year for some reason and only have good harvests due to volume of plants instead of individual plant production. It's been a very odd year and I hope next year will be better.
DeleteThose spaghetti squash look great! Thanks for the review of the annais noire. I love reading real reviews of veggies, not just the seed package sell.
ReplyDeleteThank you, I love spaghetti squash in summer instead of real pasta. And I wish I had some real reviews for some of the varieties instead of the advertised on the web as some of them are not even close to taste.
DeleteHi! You have a lot of variety of tomatoes! I would have thought you had a wonderful harvest too until I read your comment about it coming from more plants. It is still wonderful compared to mine! lol Today I picked one yellow squash, one little fat cuke and three green beans! ha. Nancy
ReplyDeleteNancy - I planted 25 varieties and some that my staples like brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Black Krip and San Marzano are at least 4 each. There was 70 total planted. I lost about 20 to deer, another dozen to my neighbor's rampage, several after major storm couple of weeks ago. We're just about peaking on tomato harvest and then it will slow down. I really doubt that I'll get my 200 lbs that I need for winter.
DeleteThe tomatoes all look great. I'm with you, I like to have real growers reviews before trying a new variety. I find most tomatoes very bland and inspid. I think the weather also plays a big role in taste. I grew 'Sugary' the first year it was released and the taste was amazing. It was the sweetest tomato I have ever eaten. The next 3 years under the same conditions the taste was jusr ok. Live and learn...
ReplyDeleteEd - that's why I usually go for dark varieties as they tend to be more flavorful. I tried Black Brandywine this year and loved it, but regular bradywine is also good. So far I'm not a fan of Striped German or other bicolors for some reason. Hillbilly left me asking where's the flavor. Mortgage lifter is uniform pink and solid inside but taste is bland.
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