Pics of recent harvest 7/18-7/20/14.

Pics of recent harvest 7/18-7/20/14.

Harvest time!

Here we go.   Friday evening I picked an awful lot. A few dozen Cherokee purple and Black from Tulas (which I can't tell apart),  plus orange slicer and KBs, some pasters.  Lots of black cherry - prolific!    Flamme, MLs too.   Green zebras not quite ripe .

Made 2 quarts of CP/BFT puree 7/13.   2 quarts yellow purée 7/19.  Then,   3.5 quarts purée from BFT/CP/mortgage lifter/pasters, which I simmered to reduce to 2 quarts, then made sauce with garlic and homegrown basil, salt,oregano.   On 7/20.

7/4/14 update

Happy 4th of July.  We picked a few ripe tomatoes today.  Just a few so far .  Here's a good BFT.  There was another enormous one that had a big bite taken out by a bird or squirrel but it was still huge.   A few other ripe ones had some end rot or were on the ground & gross.  However I think the twine setup is doing a decent job keeping things mostly off the ground.

   I checked the pollination attempts.  One or two fell off.  The BFT ovule looks the same.  A couple of the IRs are still intact and look like they are slightly swelling, so maybe some success there.