Successful party 2011 - pictures etc.

[Hilde]

The 2011 party turned out great! Remy and Gary Orlowski were again gracious hosts on Grand Island! Weather was very good (just a little warm for a Norwegian) and a lot of people came. You who couldn't come were greatly missed!

There were a total of 74 varieties of tomatoes this year, and lots of good food to eat after having tasted tomatoes.

The award winners were:

Best tasting tomato: Goose Creek grown by Rob Kavanaugh.
Prettiest tomato: Don Juan grown by Julianna Griffin.
Ugliest tomato: Orange Minsk grown by Hilde Reineck.
Biggest tomato: Arkansas Marvel grown by Marcia Ritchie.
Smallest tomato: Gold Rush grown by Richard Price.
Tangiest tomato: Yummy Lebanese grown by Elizabeth d'Anjou
Sweetest tomato: Sungold grown by Tara Kolinsky
The Norm Brown award for the craziest tomato lover (usually the one who has travelled the furthest to be at the party) went to Rosalinda.

The 74 varieties were:


Absinthe
Abruznyi
Adventure
African Queen
Amish Yellow
Ananas Noir
Aunt Gertie’s Gold
Belmonte
Black Cherry
Box Car Willie
Brandywine
Carbon
Cherokee Bi-Color
Cherokee Green
Cherokee Green Grape
Dice’s Mystery Black/Black Dice
Don Juan
Dr Lyle
Earl’s Faux
Eckert Polish
Eva Purple Ball
Franchi Red Pear A and B
Galina
German Gold
Gold Rush
Goose Creek
Green Gage
Green Giant
Green Moldovan
Humph
Ildi
Juliet Grape
Kosovo
Malachite Box
Matt’s Wild Cherry
Mexico
Monkey’s ★★★
Moreton
Mortgage Lifter
Mystery Yellow
Not Cuore di bue
Not Virginia Sweets
Olga
Olive Hill
Opalka
Orange Minsk A and B
Orlovskie Rysaki
Pineapple
Polish Linguisa
Pork Chop A, B and C
Principe Borghese
Provenzano
Quartz Multiflora
Red Pear
Red Pear Gransasso
Remy Rouge
Rideau Sweet
Rinaldo
Snow White
Steve’s Pink
Steve’s Red
Striped Roman
Stump of the world A, B and C
Sungold
Sunsugar
Tim’s Black Ruffles
Top Sirloin
Tlacolula Ribbed
Tom’s Yellow Wonder A and B
Unknown Black
Utyonok
Wapsipinicon Peach
Wes
Yummy Lebanese

I tried to upload pictures to tomatoville, but it kept asking for an url, so I signed up for flickr. If everything works there would be pictures of all the varieties and of people attending if you follow this link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/66884676@N04/sets/72157627409581101/

The copyright watermark is irritating in the picture, and I started with that after someone stole tomato pictures to put on their commercial website. I still don't like it though. This year I used flash for the first time, and of some reason some images are out of focus. I have to work with that!

Zana, we missed you and your Armenian baklava so much! Hope you are recovering fast from the migraine!!!

Hilde