Something about this tomato (Japanese Black Trifele) is off. I can’t quite put my finger on it.
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Tomatoes before and after slow roasting. Yummy.
Today’s morning tomato harvest includes black cherries, sun gold, a dad’s sunset (bigger orange), a few principe borghese (small round red) and the first black trifeles (the big dark red ones).
Sun gold and black cherry tomatoes are some of my favorites that I’ll grow every year. They are very prolific and taste fantastic.
On with the tomatoes! The jerkwad birds are already nailing the costoluto genovese tomatoes (the big wrinkly ones) but these will be my first undamaged. The one in the middle is nice and goofy shaped.
Also shown are sungold, black cherry, black trifele, black prince, and principe borghese tomatoes and my first friarello di napoli peppers.
A little harvest of raspberries, padrone peppers and a principe borghese tomato.
As the lettuce bolts to seed (Chadwick’s Rodan in this case) in come the tomatoes. I ate the first ones — black cherry — this morning. Yum.
Here are all my tomato seedlings hardening-off on the patio. The two left column areas are all cherry/small varieties, the last column area on the right contains the larger varieties of which I don’t have too many this year.
This is the first year I’ve used a grow light and the tomato seedlings are looking significantly healthier than in past years. I’ve also noticed some color differences in the leaves of plants which sat under the lights for this entire seedling season versus plants which had a bit more outside time under the sun.
Those are Carolina Jessamine in the terracotta tall planters, fyi.
Left town for 5 days to return to much larger plants. Clearly the investment in the grow lights were worth it. Here are 5-6 types of cherry tomatoes, a few larger varieties and some Japanese cucumbers toward the back. In the second photo are some younger seedlings, a variety of peppers, herbs and marigolds.
