My biggies have only blossoms or tiny fruits so far - nothing compared to yours!

I’d love to be in Europe somewhere sampling fresh produce about now.

Ananas Noire 620 g



Chocolate Stripes 480 g



White Wonder 420 g

arnorrian wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:23 pm Ananas Noire 620 g



Chocolate Stripes 480 g



White Wonder 420 g

These are so pretty and perfect looking. How is the flavor on White Wonder.

Ginger2778 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:47 pm These are so pretty and perfect looking. How is the flavor on White Wonder.

Mild and fruity.

arnorrian wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:10 pm I'm taking a test batch to my local green grocer as an experiment. I'm not sure which price to ask.

I've given up on the idea of selling tomatoes. My local green grocer managed to sell four cups in four days. It looks like it's too exotic for my part of the town. They were selling it 1 dollar per cup, out of which I got 80 cents. Swiss chard was a success, as the five trial bunched I gave them sold in under an hour. By at 30 cents per bunch (20 for me) I'd rather give it away to friends and family.

Also, a cross-section of Ananas Noire and (a smaller) Chocolate Stripes.

Those tomatoes are just beautiful and would sell very quickly in my town. I'm sorry that the grocery did not work out so very well for you. It is hard to get people to change from eating a plain red store bought tomato but once they do they are forever changed.

I''ll likely reduce the number of plants next year, and plant something else. I'll freeze the excess I have now, I'll need it for the rice cooker. Putting a tomato with the rice is a revelation.

Wow, $1 for such beautiful tomatoes is a bargain! The price over here would be $4 or more.

Very beautiful. Too bad people don’t fully appreciate lovely produce like yours.

Freezing tomatoes, this was my first year doing that, is a wonderful option. I never knew how easy they freeze whole in their skins and how easy it is to peel them once partially thawed. The flavor of frozen ripe then thawed tomatoes is divine, far superior to any cooked canned tomato product I’ve had. Giving tomatoes away is great, but I’m going to freeze much more of my future crops.

I didn't take this pic in my garden, but it turned out nicely. A carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea or Xylocopa valga).

Two of my Jigsaw trivariegated chili plants, I grew from seed from the same chili fruit. The second one has more white on the leaves, is larger, but no fruits at all. i thing the soil made the difference, as the first one is in my regular garden soil, and the second one in a potting mix I bought. coleus refused to grow at all in that potting mix until I mixed it with sand and regular soil. But Yamal dwarf tomato grew well in it.

I had to pick everything that started blushing today, I have to spray with fungicide this evening. It has been two days rain followed by five days heat for two months now, with high humidity. Two diseases appeared, one looking like early blight, and one like late blight. I doubt it's the latter, as it spreads too slowly.

Could be grey mold, Arnorrian. It can look like late blight but moves more slowly. Those tomatoes are absolutely gorgeous.
Since I started growing lots of tomatoes and freezing them, I found they are as easy to use in paella or any other dish as a canned tomato, and of course they taste much better as well. Besides using tomatoes in rice, the flavor they add to curry is astonishing. And so easy just to put them whole into a ziplock bag and into the freezer and done.
I found the same thing, that it is hard to make sales of produce worth the effort. Prices are based on the output of mass production farms, and although our quality is so much better the price can't really cover the cost of doing all the work by hand. Amazed that your tomato cups didn't sell faster though.

I guesed it would be like that, but wanted to try. It would be a different story in Belgrade.

I agree about the gray mold. I'll spray with a fungicide and a oomycocide tonight.

Lovely tomatoes! Some people in my area sell via private roadside stands on their property which they advertise online which might be something to try. Some also contract with local farm-to-table restaurants or simply donate to local soup kitchens which I find rather nice because I know someone who could use a little something special is benefitting from my efforts.

I decided to cut the number of tomato plants in half next season, and plant other stuff. I already started getting seeds from Baker Creek.

Here we go again.