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73 kilos and rising
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Posted by ozmantis VIC Aust (My Page) on Tue, Jan 10, 06 at 4:41
I have beed diligent this year and weighed every tomato and documented it. Added this data into a spreadsheet (yeah I know I need a life) and autosum tells me 73 kilos so far.
The winners so far: tadum
Soldacki 21 fruit 6.5 kg
Zogola 18 fruit 5.6 kg
Brandywine 21 fruit 16 from bottomless pot one and 5 from a free standing pot that got burnt 6.4 kg
This is really good as they all taste wonderful. They will be the basis of my planting in the greenhouse next year. They all have more fruit on and most of the others have given up the ghost.
Anna Russian, Gregoris Altai, and Arkansas Travellor all get honorary mentions
Polish Dwarf also performed very well in a smallish pot.
Of the outside ones Sioux and Carbon have produced well while most others have suffered.
End of report so far.
Cheers Mantis |
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RE: 73 kilos and rising
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- Posted by finbar Central Italy (My Page) on
Tue, Jan 10, 06 at 4:59
| You really do need to get out more. I notice the trots were on at Horsham the other day. The Horsham Cup, in fact. |
RE: 73 kilos and rising
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Well that certainly got my attention, here was I thinking that you were trying to gain weight,
Where most people want to lose it. Gee thats a lot of tommys did you eat them all or give some away.
Shopping day tomorrow and I have to buy my first Tomatoes since last April
And the first Sp Onions and Cucumbers for such a long time its a shame.
But nothing grows here in the summer, so I will start again at the end of February
And looking forward to it already, Thats is a great harvest you have there Well done !!
Cheers..MM. |
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| Going to the trots would give me a dose of just that. And what were you doing looking up Horsham events??? LOL |
RE: 73 kilos and rising!!
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| Thanks MM. We have made one batch of relish and three batches of sauce. Had fish baked in a tomato sauce, tomato soup etc etc, and kept the neighbours, family and friends in tomatoes. |
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Congrats mate, i hate skites. I picked my first full tomatoe today and that was an early girl. Had about six good sized Husky Reds.While we are waiting for our day in the sun we have to put up with picking heaps of very large sweet strawberries every day.
Roughie |
RE: 73 kilos and rising
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| I also picked my first tomatoes last night. One 'earliest of the all', 2 cherry F1s and one very large compound pink with greenish shoulders heritage variety, I got from the Eden seeds mixture. Will pick a yellow one today from the same bag. Just enough to give me that heavenly taste after eating store bought all winter! I thought it would be fun trying to name the mystery varieties. But I'm thinking it will be harder than I thought. Last year I saw someones picture with a heap of labeled fruit which was fantastic for naming varieties. ciao
Karl |
RE: 73 kilos and rising
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| Just checked last season's spreadsheet. The total tomato harvest was 180.7kg. :) I weighed all tomatoes last season, just to see which variety was a good performer. The list should be floating about somewhere on this forum. I wasn't as diligent as mantis though. I didn't list the number of fruit. I'm not sure whether I'll do the same thing this season. Hmmm.... |
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| 180 kg phew. I wont get up that far as a lot of my plants are petering out. I remember your harvest pics from last year and they were very bountiful for sure. |
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| Isn't the climate diversity amazing! I will pick the first 6 Stupice tomorrow. Will use them with Garlic Oil and fresh Basil to make some yummy Bruschetta. Must say I'm impressed with the potential yield on this variety both inside and outside. Tomorrow will tell for taste. Arcadia will be ready by the weekend. Done well in the hothouse but not so well outside. Tigerella is Ok-ish. Not madly impressive we lost the outside ones which simply fell over in a heap, so won;t worry about them again, unless the hothouse ones perform better. Quickpick isn't worth a cracker - stunted, poor fruit development miserable looking thing. So much for believing the blurb that this is a prolific and particularly early variety. My dehydrator is still waiting. Black Russian are starting to colour up. La Casa di Apulio also looks promising but coming on much later than the others just setting fruit now and good yield, nice shape. Roughie, those few hot days worked a treat eh? Will be interested in your results . Tassie tomatoes need the right varieties and I'll trial a different set next year. I still can't get on without logging in. I also can't find out how to contact IVillage for help! Help! Cosmic |
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Go back to the cornucopia main page and scroll to the bottom. You will find a link call technical problems.
cheers Mantis |
RE: 73 kilos and rising
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| Great going. I'm jealous. I am up to about 100g of Sweet Bites. Just got back from sea and my first New Big Dwarf was rotten, some Kimberlies are days away, there's a big Sophie's Choice turning and everything else has set fruit. Back to the stocking bag. |
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| I sure hope I get as many kilos as you're getting Mantis. I think my best crop will be from the plants in the new raised beds, despite the fact that I lost a quarter to stem canker! (Something in the soil). Those that aren't affected are motoring! PP |
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| Hi PP. What does stem canker look like. One of Grubs mystery greens fell over and on inspection the stem at soil level was brown and shrunken. |
RE: 73 kilos and rising
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| I thought I was the only one experiencing problems with my tomato plants. A few have collapsed, others had some sort of fungus, few with alot of dried branches. Pulled out Cherokee Purple, did nothing but two very early fruit that stayed on idle forever. The ones that are doing the best are two Grosse Lisse that I started from seed. I was going to throw them away after I got on to this forum and decided at the last minute to stick them in the ground under the gum tree. No pruning, no fertilising, no staking, no watering and not in the best of position and they look super healthy with loads of fruit. Go figure! |
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| Seems to be a problem with Cherokee Purple. Mine this year and last year as well have set fruit on the first truss then nothing, nadda, nil. Maybe the Grosse Lisse are going well because they are in new soil that has not had tomatoes in it before?? I have given mine less attention, fertiliser and water than ever before and have the best crop ever. |
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| Mantis, that's what is so weird, the Grosse Lisse are in a native garden bed with poor soil that has never been improved. The other toms are in brand new bed prepared with compost and manure. Maybe I'll adopt the neglect technique for next year. I was very disapointed with the Cherokee Purple I was looking forward to taste that one. |
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- Posted by mabb Melbourne, Aust (My Page) on
Thu, Jan 12, 06 at 5:49
| We lost a Principe Borghese... just curled up and shriveled, so I pulled it out and put a spare eggplant in the spot, which is just as well because later I lost an eggplant to goodness knows what! The highs and lows of gardening :-) |
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Hi Cosmic, i don't know if this will help but what i have done is to save Cornucopia to my favourites list and i log on from there with no trouble at all.
As for my tomatoes, the bushes are fully loaded with fruit and i should be in tomatoe heaven as soon as we get a few hot days strung together.
Roughie |
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Neglect seems to be the order of the day. The ones we've fussed over are all having probs, but the beds i forgot about are coming on fine. Late Bloomers as it were. It was the same in Sydney last year. Maybe we just need to remember they are vines and treat them as such??.
Be cruel, my children, be cruel. |
RE: 73 kilos and rising
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Well, back from a week at the seaside and the tommys have suffered in the heat. Fruit size is dropping rappidly as the plants know that they are on their last legs (or roots). Got stuck into the greenhouse today and now it is bare apart from one Grubs mystery green. Will sow a bunch of dwarfs to try in the greenhouse as an Autumn crop tommorow.
Cheers for now Mantis |
RE: 73 kilos and rising
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Sowed Simpsons Summer Palace, Russian Red, Polish Dwarf, Citron Compact and my hopefully Brandywine X College Challenger cross. Will grow two of each and see how they go.
Cheers Mantis |
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thought you had peeked over my shoulder when I weighed in last time.
I will be happy with just a few tomatoes off my plants this year.A hot wind scorched some of the fruit and now they have a sheet over them like a tent.Glad I have more suceess with wheat and barley.I would go broke as a tomato farmer!!! |
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