Radishrain

This thread is for the Napoli tomato. It's a red paste (the picture makes it look pink) with similarities in production and fruit size to the Romas we grew in 2014. Due to its production, I want to grow it again.



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heirloom_tomato

This thread is for the Palestinian tomato. It's wispy, fairly large and apparently, a red oxheart. The picture makes it look pink, though. The bottom of the plant smelled super good, like awesome BBQ sauce.



heirloom_tomato

This thread is for the Gilbertie tomato.



heirloom_tomato

The HL volunteer in the picture (the orange tomato) is the tomato at hand here. I transplanted a Holyland tomato there in the spring, but it died. Another tomato sprouted, which I thought might be Holyland. I let it grow, and it produced this orange fruit, which I believe ripened a super long time ago. However, it's still just fine, and it's firm! The plant would perhaps have produced lots more fruit, but it was growning in between about eight plants, being shaded by them. It was doing quite well before the shade quite overtook it. It had a late start, even for a volunteer.

It's probably a volunteer from my garden last year. So, that means it's probably a cross with Orange Minsk, since I didn't grow a lot of orange tomatoes last year. I didn't save seeds from Orange Minsk; so, this is a fortuitous situation.

other_tomato

This thread is for the Sheboygan tomato. Here's a picture that includes some of its fruits. Note that everything in the picture looks pinker than it appears. Sheboygan is the only pink paste here. Gilbertie isn't fully ripe, but it's on its way from being orange-ish red to red. Holyland and Napoli are very much red. Sausage is red with at least one being orange-ish red.



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heirloom_tomato

So, I tasted a Brandy Boy F1 tomato, today—a large, pink fruit. It had a taste similar to my Brandy Boy cross C plant's fruit, this year (the one that is almost a multiflora), but it's a little different.

It was firmly attached to the vine much like my Brandy Boy cross F1 was in 2018; so, the fruit was damaged during harvest (I didn't use scissors).

Here's a picture of the same fruit that I tasted (after having tasted it; notice the chunk missing):


This picture includes two Brandy Boy F1 fruits (the smaller one is rotten):


f1_hybrid_tomato

My epazote has been in the process of going to seed for a little while now, but oh wow, the number of seeds that could be developing on my one plant is immense! It's a lot more than lambsquarter looks like it produces! I hope they ripen in time! That would be nice to have epazote weeds growing around the yard more often than lambsquarter. The seeds aren't all on one branch, but they're on loads of branches. If the seeds aren't ripe by the frost, I may pull up the plant and let them finish ripening on the pulled up plant indoors (or in the shed).

I posted the following on our old forum on 18 Jun 2019:

This year, I've been seeing a lot of what I think are painted lady butterflies.

When I was a child, I used to see what appeared to be common leopard butterflies fairly often, but I don't recall seeing any in recent years.

I saw monarch butterflies on rare occasions, as a child, but more commonly, I would see butterflies that looked similar to monarchs. (They weren't common either, though.)

I've also seen kinds I haven't identified, yet, with white wings, pastel yellow wings, and such. I may or may not have seen them in recent years.

Anyway, I've decided I should learn more butterfly names, of those I see locally. It's nice to know what they are. I spent most of my life just knowing what monarch butterflies are. Why not learn more? I mean, the common ones, too?

Hopefully I can snag some pictures of the local butterflies.

We had plenty of wasps earlier in the season, this year, but I haven't seen many since! Usually they're all over the place for basically the whole growing season.

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