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I'm growing Buckbee's New 50-day tomato, this year (2019). It has decent-sized fruits with thick walls and mild, but good, flavor. The plant is small and has an open habit (so you can see the fruit without moving leaves or branches). The plant was shaded by other plants; so there was little risk of sunscald.

The first fruit was ripe on 26 July. Here are some pictures of it.







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Apparently, my Amana Orange and Chris Ukrainian tomatoes are striped! That may explain why the Chris Ukrainian tomato had a different growth rate than the ones I gave away.

Amana Orange could be crossed with any of the following striped tomatoes that I grew in 2016: Girl Girl's Weird Thing, Purple Bumble Bee, or Pink Berkeley Tie Dye. If it's shape is dominant to Maglia Rosa's (which I don't think is the case), then Maglia Rosa is also a possibility. I think Girl Girl's Weird Thing is the most likely candidate, however, based on the look of the plant, and how GGWT seems to cross-pollinate stuff fairly often (although there was a Purple Bumble Bee plant closer). PBTD was pretty late that year, and didn't have a lot of fruit or foliage.

A Missouri Pink Love Apple cross in 2017 had stripes (I think GGWT pollinated it in 2016, too, since it looked like GGWT). However, it could have been mixed up seed instead. Edit: The seeds were from 2016; so, that's not likely. Indian Zebra (which some call Indian Stripe) is perhaps another possibility.

Here's the Amana Orange cross with stripes (the small tomatoes in the second picture are a volunteer which is probably Husky Cherry Red F-something x Sweet Orange Cherry F2; it ripens yellow):

Of all my new tomatoes, this year (2019), I'm most impressed with Marion, currently. It had good, clean germination, and a high germination rate. The plant has good vigor. It set fruit early, and the fruits are a good size. The first fruit ripened by 25 July 2019 (it's been a slow-ripening year; not all my previously grown early tomatoes have had ripe fruit, yet). The first fruit to ripen was the largest on the plant, interestingly. I saved seeds and ate the fruit. It tasted excellent! It has what I think is a Brandywine-type taste, but better than that sounds to me. Another taster really liked the taste, too. The texture was good, and the walls were pretty thick. Here are some pictures of it.

I definitely want to grow multiple Marion tomato plants next year. I'm thinking my lineup may include at least Marion, Sausage, Sweet Orange Cherry, Mountain Princess, my Brandy Boy cross, my Gnocchia di Limone cross, Galapagos Island, and some others.








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So, I decided to harvest a full-grown horseradish leaf with chlorosis, today, and eat it. This is the first horseradish leaf of my my plants that I've eaten. The soil had loads of wood ash in it (so it probably needed more nitrogen and less calcium or something). The plant is getting green now, however.

Recap: Earlier this year, in the spring, I tried a friend's horseradish leaves, and they tasted like strong cabbage. The texture was kind of chewy, and the skin was thin and maybe a little stretchy. It tasted like powerful cabbage, except the stem tasted like horseradish. The only fibrous part was the stem below the leaf.

My leaf today was quite different. The whole leaf tasted kind of like horseradish. It reminded me of hot radishes, except it wasn't fibrous (except for the stem and some inches of the center vein). It had a great texture for fresh-eating (not tough or stretchy). It did have some sinus-clearing properties. It left a smell in my mouth as if I had just eaten a good sandwich. It felt healthy. So, I ate some more of it (the spiciness made this a slow process), and then I put the rest on a sandwich and ate it. The sandwich definitely masked most of the spiciness, and made eating the rest of the leaf quick work. It was good on the sandwich (which was just bread, cheese, and the leaf).

I'm not sure if my horseradish is the same sort as the kind I tried earlier in the year. The kind I ate today had western shade, and probably some southern shade, and it had black plastic around it. The other kind was in full sun, with no black plastic; it also had no chlorosis.

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We got a Green Globe artichoke plant from Walmart in the spring, and transplanted it in an area with black plastic and western shade. Here's a picture of it on 22 July 2019. Yesterday, it had a lot more artichoke heads showing. Yes, there are watermelons next to it, and I don't regret the decision.

Here are pictures of my Galapagos Island tomato, this year, taken yesterday. They were sweeter than previous years. They didn't taste like last year's cross; I think they might not be a cross, this time, after all. This might not be 100% S. cheesmaniae, but it's unique from other tomatoes I've grown.





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Here are a couple Tidy Rose F1 tomatoes that I harvested yesterday. The big one had sunscald, and a more powerful taste that I quite preferred.





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Here are a couple Black Dragon tomatoes from yesterday. They have thicker walls than Black Plum and are larger.


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