The Garden of Woz...

[Whwoz]

King Humbert, received a few plants of this from friend McSee. Unfortunately one ended up as a round cherry and the other a small juicy plum, neither of which was what I was hoping for. Produced well. Keeping seed of the plum only.

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[Whwoz]

Do not know of Bursztyn, my source of the Barnsten was @svalli, maybe she is aware of it and can comment further @Bower . It wound up a very good but intense bottling period, thankfully that fridge made a big difference when I wound up with a dose of food poisoning right as the tomatoes were starting to ripen en mass. There are more photos to load up and more still to be taken, FP, bottling and work getting in the way of me loading them up. Fortunately tonight is fairly quite at work......

Your Barnsten looks a lot like Bursztyn. IDK if they might be the same. Ours were not quite as orange though (but it was a cold year).
I'm glad to hear that you got lots of tomatoes in the end, even in spite of the El Nino season.

I can't see the last few pics you posted so will check back later. My slow connection doesn't always load em up.
edited to add: well they loaded right up while I was posting Gorgeous fruit, great pics Whwoz!

[Whwoz]

Kumato is one productive plant under my conditions. Been around the traps for a while now and useful as a different color in a bowl full. Ridiculously expensive here when you see them in the shops

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[Whwoz]

La Case de Apuila is another small Italian plum type of tomato. Would be ok to good in sauce, but could do to be a bit drier. Plants around 1 meter in height are productive producing 200 to 300 each I would guesstimate. A useful small tomato that can be put to multiple uses without the plant taking over

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[Whwoz]

Japanese Onion, I know I have mentioned this one above, a Roma style fruit on a plant around 750mm/2.5 feet high that is dry and thick walled. Would make a great sauce/pasata tomato for a pure variety sauce or to mix with USDA97L97 to enhance the colour further. 100 plus fruit on the plant, each around the 150g/5.5 oz mark. Holding very well inside, with some one top of the fridge for what must be pushing 3 weeks by now. Would give CGBB a run if forced to grow only one var.

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[svalli]

Bursztyn is amber in Polish and bärnsten in Swedish, so those are very likely same variety. It gets confusing when the names are translated and same variety will be then sold with many different names.

Sari

[Whwoz]

Lime Green Salad, another rugose leaf Dwarf, productive plants, well worth a return run on taste and production merit alone. GWRs are good value I find. Normally a fairly small tomato, this year saw a number of megablooms on the plants, with fruit up around the 190g mark.

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[Whwoz]

Momotoro is one that a number of you will be familiar with, first time here and it has done well producing a good number of round red (or are they pink, I cannot remember exactly) globes of good taste. These were picked before full ripeness.

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[Whwoz]

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Orange Cherry, more of a golf ball size than cherry size this year, plant highly productive with fruit hanging like grapes all over the plant, made for a fairly impressive sight when they all ripened together.

[Whwoz]

Pertsevidnyy, another from @Rajun Gardener and like a couple of others have mentioned they are small plums, reasonably moist but not wet, similar in some respects to King Humbert. Plants are vigorous and high productive down here, with probably 400 to 500 fruit per plant just hanging like grapes all over the plants. Unfortunately not the big ones pictured or that @mikestuff49 recieved.

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[Whwoz]

Ajvarski pepper, grown from seed last year and overwintered once and will aim to do so for a second year. This plant was the first to really start growing in spring, unfortunately before I got the cover off, which set the plant back a bit . Still it is producing a nice crop with a different flavour to challenge the kids with.

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[Whwoz]

Friend McSee played around with a bit of glue and the variegated pepper called Candy Cane last year. He was able to successfully glue a flower shut to get F2 seed. I received one plant from him which is highly variegated with highly variegated fruit while they are young. As the fruit ripen they become all red. Plant is only small but prolific for its size with one recent picking being of 12 fruit. Will get over 30 for the season. Intend to over winter this one also.

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[Whwoz]

Noticed some grubs on the Kang Kong the other day, so regularly go over the plants looking for them. Judging by what is in the "Hornworms Wanted" thread, I have Hornworms here eating the Kang Kong but not toughing the tomatoes or peppers. Anything else that I might find them on, suggestion of where to look appricated.

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[GoDawgs]

I'm enjoying seeing your different 'maters and reading your comments on productivity. I'm also doing the Costoluto Genovese for the first time this year and hope they do as good as yours.

[Whwoz]

Thank you @GoDawgs, the photos serve as a reminder for myself what something looks like if I loose track of it with time, as well as for the benefit of others. Will be interesting to hear how the Costuloto Genovese go for you with your summer humidity. A very much underrated tomato IMO.

[Whwoz]

Grew a different variety of cucumber this season, sold here in punnets as seedlings with one or two leaves showing. Japanese Climbing cucumber is a green burpless type, getting up to 14 inches long, prolific and require regular picking to be at there best, with the biggest this year touching 700 g or 24.6 oz. First time growing cucumbers up a trellis for me, will probably do it more often and with some of the other varieties I have out of curiosity.

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[Whwoz]

Pervaya Lyubov, the early potato leaf Russian got a bit swamped by rubbish as did some of the other tomatoes, did well enough under the circumstances to return next year.

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[Whwoz]

Pink Cherry cluster is not a cherry under my conditions, a 2 inch saladette would better describe it. Clusters everywhere, one can barely see the stems for the fruit still on it at the tail end of the season

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[Whwoz]

Russo Sicillian Togetta is another favorite of Brokenbar for sauce/drying and I have several photos higher up of this, but always room here for another of a good tomato. Very productive and would need to weigh and record production per plant of this and the two Costulotos above to see which is the most productive. Also need to run some of each separately through the food mill to see which is the driest, would be interesting to do for sauce. Actually should include Japanese Onion in this comparison, along with one or two others, mmmm...............

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[Whwoz]

Sugary Pounder or more correctly 'Sakharnyi Pudovichok', lived up to its name producing around 10 or so fruit upto and slightly over the pound mark, biggest from memory was over 500grams or 18oz. Do not recall anything in particular about taste, but may have gotten caught up in the big cookup and missed tasting it. One to grow again.

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