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Chris Ukrainian in my garden has stripes, this year (like Green Zebra's stripes). I ate a ripe fruit, today, and it was very sweet (I think a lot of things are sweet around now; Early Girl F1 is, anyway).

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Here are some Thessaloniki tomatoes that I harvested, seeded and ate several hours ago.

The first and largest one tasted quite good and had some of that burned tomato taste to it that Matina had in 2017, but not so much that it was overpowering. the second fruit tasted different, but I liked it a lot.


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The plant is looking quite prolific.

In 2016, it was also prolific (albeit not early), and it had softball-sized fruits, but had a somewhat different texture and a different taste. I watered it a lot then and didn't use black plastic. I saved seeds and grew them in 2017 with drought, without bkack plastic, and the plant produced small fruit, and few fruit, with potent good taste. I figured that might have been a cross as it was so different; so, I used my original seed source again, this year, and got a partially variegated plant. The variegation went away after a bit. I'm growing it in black plastic with drought. It got a late start, but it's prolific with good-sized fruits anyway.

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So, on 26 Aug 2019, we were out of regular milk. So, I decided to try almond milk on my cereal for the first time (I've had almond milk before—but not on cereal). Anyway, on the cereal, the almond milk tasted surprisingly a lot like regular milk.

The wonderberries only contributed a very mild taste to the cereal, but they added visual appeal, and nutrition. What taste was there was good, however.

Until very recently, I hadn't had cold cereal in years (except for granola without milk or such). Life without cereal is not fun. I stopped eating it on account of things I read about extruded cereal. I didn't notice any ill effects when I first started eating it again.

At this point, I'm not convinced that extruded cereals are bad for humans.

My favorite cereals are perhaps these:

* Rice Chex
* Corn Chex
* Life Cereal
* Dora the Explorer Cereal (that might surprise you, but it's actually a great invention, rather than a mere sugary promotion of the show; it's not that sugary, in fact)
* Quaker Oatmeal Squares
* Cheerios
* Honey Nut cheerios
* Fruity Pebbles
* Rice Crispies
* Corn Flakes
* Shredded Wheat (not the frosted kinds)

I used to like Raisin Bran a lot (as well as frosted shredded wheat types), but I've decided I should avoid them. Something about them doesn't seem to agree with me.

I've only had Corn Chex this year, however.

I'm not sure how my body will like the various rice cereals, yet.

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We harvested about four or five stainless steel mixing bowls of tomatoes on 26 Aug 2019, with more left to pick.

We have our largest stockpot, which is probably full or nearly full, stewing them on low. The canning should begin in a number of hours (it's the middle of the night).

Our Jerusalem artichokes have been falling over for a little while. I guess the tuber-grown ones get a lot taller. They're starting to develop buds.

So, on 26 Aug 2019, we had some millet with carrots and hamburger seasoned with Maggi season (as well as pepper, I think). It was really good! I loved the hamburger with Maggi seasoning. I'll have to remember that.

The millet was cooked like rice.

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I harvested, seeded and ate a fruit from my Amana Orange cross on 26 Aug 2019. It tasted awesome! It had great firm texture like Amana Oange has in the past, too. The shape is like the Amana Orange I grew in 2017, but the fruit isn't very big.

I suspect that Girl Girl's Weird Thing was the father plant. It had a lot more flavor than Girl Girl's Weird Thing has in the past for me, though, and a lot more than Amana Orange, too. Maybe that's because I grew it with black plastic this time. Maybe the cross brought out more flavor. Or, maybe the year did.

Pink Berkeley Tie Dye is another candidate for the father. Indian Zebra (perhaps the same as Indian Stripe) is another possibility.

The inside has some pink in it. The exterior is an interesting color.

I don't know why the fruits aren't larger.







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This tomato was actually pretty tasty. It was like a much tangier version of Chapman, taste-wise, but the texture was different and more like those of my Brandy Boy crosses.

I suspect that Chapman is the father plant, as it tasted like Chapman. Taste-wise, the only other tomato with a similar taste that I grew was Pink Cheeks. It was pink again, this year (much as in 2017).

I plan to grow this again some time. I'm excited to have a tomato wuth this taste and texture. I hope it can be earlier and more prolific with a regular start (it was transplanted when it was still small, and transplanted later in the season than ideal).

This fruit had a very large blossom scar and was likely from a megabloom. These pictures are all of the same fruit.








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Here another picture of what was supposed to be Husky Red F1. This is a fruit I harvested, seeded and ate today. I suspect this is rather actually a stable matriarchal parent of Husky Red F1, seeing as the foliage is not rugose (it is regular leaf). The foliage is stiff like rugose foliage, though. It's really a nice plant. I plan to grow seeds next year and see if it's true-to-type.

The plant produces a good amount of good-sized fruit on a medium-ish plant.

This has a fairly normal tomato flavor, but in a good way. The texture is good and very meaty. It was midseason, this year.

I thought I already posted about his tomato (as I already harvested and seeded fruit a while back), but I'm not finding the post.



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I harvested the first Polish Linguisa tomato, today. It was over-ripe, but it was one of the best-tasting tomatoes this year, right up there with my two favorite Brandy Boy crosses and Marion! It smelled good before I cut it open, too. I saved the seeds for a trade. I'll have to save more for myself later.




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