My 2013 heirloom tomato garden

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Originally Posted by BucksCountyGirl

Wow...everything looks really healthy and productive!

Dear Kelli, if...
It is not all healthy, I took pictures of a happy looking tomatoes.
Will show some not healthy once later.

[Tania]

Looks great Ella!

I also love Carbon, and I am growing Black Master for the first time too. I am looking forward to tasting it.

Tatiana

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Originally Posted by wally mcgee

A very nice tomato indeed

thank you

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Originally Posted by BucksCountyGirl

Very nice, Ella! I hope to get one off of my Amazon Chocolate before the Grey Mold takes her! Cheers!

AC was straggling last year as well in my garden. I changed it's location, hoping to have better results. Did not happen.
Thinking about grafting it. Maybe next year I will experiment with some varieties.
and thanks Kelli

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Originally Posted by Tania

Looks great Ella!

I also love Carbon, and I am growing Black Master for the first time too. I am looking forward to tasting it.

Tatiana

I am happy to hear that.
thank you

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Wessell’s purple pride (RL, paste tomato crossed with Cherokee purple). Wispy droopy foliage, similar to heart tomatoes.

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Brandywine Black is next to Cherokee Purple. As you can see BB is straggling, only top leaves are still green. I keep on removing infected leaves, few days later there we are. CP looks much better.

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DAVID'S PINK KY
I got my seeds from Maria.

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KBX. Last year I grew it's RL version. It did great for me, was healthy almost to the middle of September. The biggest tomato was 1 pound 13 ounces.

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I am giving a second chance to a Big Rainbow tomato. Last year it got sick to soon. Most of the plant die, only one side shoot remained and produced only 1 small tomato, it did taste good. That is why I am giving it second chance. This year it is better, not perfect. I am hoping to get few. I have 4 green tomatoes on it. Maybe another grafting candidate.

[LDx4]

Ella,

Your tomatoes look wonderful and very productive! What are you going to do with all those tomatoes?? Carbon is also my favorite black tomato -- it's always productive and the taste is the best of the blacks to me.

Lyn

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Grew Golden Cherokee Last Year. It was healthy up to September. Produced many big tomatoes, the biggest was 1 pound 12 ounces. This one has few branches removed already. It may not like location.

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Hege German Pink does not look good. After taking picture, I removed few branches, the two that remain have green leaves but for how long? I hope to be able to get something from it.
btw it is in a bed that is one of the newest. My son dug a 3 feet by 12 feet hole that I filled with garden soil. Some times I think that soil was contaminated with diseases or something was wrong with it. This year I added some good fungus, some fish (yep real thing, bunker), epsom salt, and some other things. I shoveled it to mix better with the soil that was original to NJ on the bottom of the bed. I think so far tomatoes in that bed look better that last year. But it is too soon to say.

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Originally Posted by LDx4

Ella,

Your tomatoes look wonderful and very productive! What are you going to do with all those tomatoes?? Carbon is also my favorite black tomato -- it's always productive and the taste is the best of the blacks to me.

Lyn

So happy to know that I am not the only one that likes it. Thank you. Sometimes I am wondering, why am I looking for that perfect tomato, I already have it. I guess, I need to grow two hundred varieties to realize that.
I give away them to my family, neighbors, friends. Last year I made sauce. Meatballs and tomato sauce, mmm

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My little one. She loves sweet cherry tomatoes.