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I grew Neapolitan last year in containers. I'm growing it this year in the ground with a shredded wood mulch. It's doing better this year, and ripening faster. The first ripe fruit was a while ago.

Here are some pictures of the fruits. I saved seeds from the three large ones in the bowl on 20 Aug 2019; those fruits aren't in the second picture. They tasted pretty good. They have a good sweet tang.

I harvested four ripe fruits of the Early Treat F1 tomato on 20 Aug 2019. They were the first on the plant. They were salad-sized with a normal salad tomato taste (maybe a little sweet). The skins were thick. The plant had eastern shade and a late start. I saved F2 seeds from these fruits.




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• The Home Depot (Burpee brand)

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I grew Delicious 51 from Everwilde Farms. I knew from the picture of it where I bought it that it was probably a cross, but I wanted to try it anyway. It grew a fruit that looked like a Charentais melon (but it tasted very delicious in a way that the Charentais melon I grew this year did not, and it had a good texture; I don't want to call it firm, but I don't know a better word that wouldn't sound off-putting; fibrous is the better but off-putting word, but it's a good texture and not a bad one; it wasn't fibrous like old broccoli is fibrous or anything). It smelled very good and was quite sweet. It had orange flesh (more orange than the picture depicts). It cracked on the blossom end, but the flesh didn't have that spicy fungal taste or anything (so, not a bad crack).

It was my fourth favorite melon for taste that I've tasted so far (but it had strong competition).

Today seems to be watermelon day (2019) or the day when we first harvest lots of watermelons at once. I found nineteen ripe ones, the largest of them being a Santo Domingo Dark Green. Most of the winter watermelons and larger watermelons are still ripening.

Alas, I don't mean National Watermelon Day. That's August 3rd.

We have the following here:
* Santo domingo Dark Green x 3
* Ancient x 2
* Congo cross x 6
* Verona x 5
* Tom Watson cross x 2 (these are the two small ones that look like winter watermelons; they're evidently from a different plant than the first one I harvested; they're F2s; so, that explains how they're different)
* Unidentified x 1

I hope you all like the black background. I do, anyhow.

Edit: It's been a standard white for a while now (with now being 23 Jan 2020).

Here's Wednesday's tomato harvest (most of it):

My beloved Aunt Gertie's Gold fruit got blossom end rot.  It got it heavily; so, I didn't taste the fruit. However, I was determined not to let it stop me (so, I saved seeds from it, just in case). There are other fruits forming. Hopefully they make it.

I often wonder if seeds from BER fruits will be any more or less likely to get BER than seeds from other fruits on the same plant.

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Here are some Black Vernissage fruits. I saved seeds from them. The plant was stunted until other plants had already been big for a good while. However, it was the first tomato to sprout, I believe. I think a disease stunted it. I zapped the seeds (so, I'm curious to see how they perform next time).

The fruits were firmer than I expected, and pleasantly so. The taste was a bit sweet. It was good. It wasn't all that different from Noire de Crimee' (but it was different). The fruits weren't much smaller, either.




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Here are a couple Big Boy F1 tomatoes. I saved F2 seeds from them. The taste wasn't anything out of the norm, but the fruits were shaded by the plant itself and surrounding caged tomato plants. The taste wasn't bad, though. I think it would taste better with more sun.




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