How is your Tomato Harvest Going?

[Cats Critters and Garden]

Share your harvest pictures and tell us how different types are doing!

Mortgage Lifter- Big Tomatoes, but they aren't ripe yet

Chocolate Stripes- Maybe ripe I'm trying to figure it out:

Riesentraube which translates to "giant bunch of grapes"- The 3 to the left:

Rose- one little green tomato

Volunteers from last years hybrids- they look like their parents , the ones to the right:

 

[wifezilla]

Doing great with the sweet 100s, yellow plum, large red cherry and mar globes. The pink climbers never set fruit. I have some black krim with green tomatoes on it, but they got a late start. Next year I am planting more mar globes!!! Love those things.

 

[Jared77]

20lbs and counting between Big Boys, Lemon Boys, Early Girls, Green Zebras, Romas and more cherry tomatoes than I can count.

Have already eaten plenty of tomatoes fresh, and to date canned 6 quarts of salsa and 9 pints of soup. Its been a pretty good year so far.

 

[ninnymary]

Well my tomatoes are doing pretty good considering our cool summers.

Early girls - Been harvesting those for about a month.

Sungolds - same thing

Black krim - Been eating those for about a month now. Did much better this year since it's in the ground and not in a pot.

Thessalonka - It's ok. Not sure if I will plant this one next year. Plants are kind of crowded and I really need to eliminate one.

Japanese Black Triefle - Lots of tomatoes on the plant. Starting to ripen. I think I'm going to love this one!

Stiltz - Not as many on the plant. Doing ok. Not sure if I will plant it again. There are so many others to try.

 

[momofdrew]

a cherry from Ferre Morse quite large for a cherry, Yellow pear, bi-color cherry, Cherokee Purple, finally ripening... waiting for green zebra, brandywine, Roma, nineveh & carbon all heirloom

 

[momofdrew]

20lbs and counting between Big Boys, Lemon Boys, Early Girls, Green Zebras, Romas and more cherry tomatoes than I can count.

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/uploads/7129_sam_1712.jpg

Have already eaten plenty of tomatoes fresh, and to date canned 6 quarts of salsa and 9 pints of soup. Its been a pretty good year so far.

Jared how do you tell when the Green Zebras are ripe??? my first year with them...

 

[thistlebloom]

So far my tomato harvest equals one Juliet, which really could have stood a few more days on the vine, but it was not green so I ate it.
Now I only have to get two more ripe ones and I'll beat last summers harvest of ripe tomatoes

I have Bloody Butcher, loaded with green; Juliet, starting to turn and also loaded; Jap. BlackTrifele, maybe a handful of tiny green fruits;
Federle, I think it's the one with some kind of deformity going on, a lot of the toms look like curled horns or peppers (my labeling needs a little work ); Dr Wychees Yellow, loaded with green fruits; Jubilee and Cherokee Purple are not labeled so I'll have to see which is which a little later.
I have about 24 plants all told.

Six months is a long time to wait for a homegrown ripe tomato....sigh....

 

[momofdrew]

thistle
I agree that's why I can and freeze as many as I can...it tastes wonderful in Feb when there is 3 ft of snow on the ground then I top it off with frozen Strawberries that I froze in July for dessert...so very gratifying...

 

[thistlebloom]

I'd love to can and freeze,
but the weather lately has not been a tomatoes dream, so getting some to ripen before a hard freeze is dicey. :/

 

[skeeter9]

Hmmmph! I am not very impressed with my tomato growing skills so far this year! :/ I harvest about 1 or 2 small tomatoes a day from 12 plants. Even my 3 cherry tomato plants are hardly doing anything - maybe 4 tiny tomatoes a week. There seem to be quite a few tomatoes set, so maybe I just need to be more patient, but this is getting rediculous. I am growing Marglobe, Arkansas Traveler, Thessaloniki, and Big Beef. Flavor is excellent in all 4 varieties and they are all performing about the same. I'm really not sure what's going on. . . .