I try to bring a little fun to the stink bug invasion. I will be better prepared next year, though I don't know how just yet. Everyone around here always has and does use Seven Dust.
Excellent review of your tomatoes Kaye! Some varieties just fizzle out with the turn in the weather and others still produce great. Always helpful to know which varieties you will grow again and why.
Very true! And Thank you. I know it would have been a better review a month earlier, but so much to do, too little time. I hope to do better next year with timing videos. Blessings!
I also got free black vernissage with a baker creek seed order several years ago and it remains a must-grow for me. i added pink vernissage this year. Both are very productive, even in this hot drought we have had in north Georgia this year. They are still putting ut new tomatoes after others have given up.
You might benefit by doing what I have done. I and some fellow gardener friends, instead of each of us growing everything, divided several cultivars amongst ourselves, each concentrating on growing just a few WELL and then sharing the crop at maturity. It's less stress on both the garden and the gardener. Something to remember about tomatoes is, in order to set fruit successfully, there needs to be a minimum of 10 degrees (cooler) temperature difference come evening.
Wow! They all look delicious Kaye ♥️ Lost of juicy wonderfullness from them. I’d have to have a salt shaker with me…🤣🤣. It’s so fun to taste and review what you’ve grown….good job!
I really appreciate you sharing the results of your tomato season. Very informative hearing your feedback on the different varieties. I had quite a few tomato blossoms fall off early on. Fortunately, the next round of blossoms held, and the bees showed up. Good tomato harvest but not great like last year's was. I planted Ananas Noire for the first time this year and it's a pretty darn good variety (pinkish purple highlights with predominate green shoulders and a colorful, streaked interior, moderately meaty).
My favorite are Ozark Tommy Toe, German Johnson, Celebrity, Cherokee Purple, Campbell 33, Better Boy, Early Girl. German Johnson and Celebrity is my favorite for canning or making juice. Campbell 33 is the best for canning into soup. My ozark Tommy Toe grows past frost for me and my chi's loves this tomato straight off the plant. I am going to try a few extra next year, not sure which. My middle daughter likes yellow and orange tomatoes so I need to find one for her. I tried Aunt Ruby's German Green this year and I liked it. It done wonderful for my pickled green tomatoes & onion canning. I missed my tomatoes for tomato paste this year, not sure how I forgot it. I've grown these in NC & KY and done very well. Thank you for doing this video and I may go ahead order some a couple new varieties. Have a Blessed Day.
Great looking variety of tomatoes. I only grew Sungold (cherry) tomatoes, Giant Red (cherry) tomatoes, Cherokee Purple (slicers), Chocolate Cherry (cherry) tomatoes and Lemon Boy (Slicers). I will have to try some of those next year.
@@Latebloomershow I wish I had the space to grow for all my tomato needs like Sarah and Kevin on Living Tradition Homestead. In the near future we are going to move farther north from where we are now closer to beginning of North GA. I am so glad you found a helper this summer - at least one day a week is good.
We grew one called Everglades. It’s a cherry. It withstood all the bugs and humidity of South Georgia. We only used about 10% because we couldn’t keep up.
Why don't you put them in the freezer and when you have 20 lbs make tomato juice. Very very easy!!! 1 gal baggie is 5 lbs. (It is for me anyway but I mix in other tomatoes in with them.) Put the frozen tomatoes in a Nesco roaster, mash them. Then put them in a cone colander and use a pistil to mash in the cone. This removes the skins and seeds. Then hot water bath. 25 lbs gives you about 11 quarts.
Enjoyed hearing your choices of tomatoes & opinion! I planted 6 (too many in my small, raised bed garden 8’x12’). My best results has been 4th of July & am hoping the San Mazana will redden. Loved the Sun Gold cherry but little yellow pear had little depth of flavor so fermented as a salsa. Will only plant 3-4 in 2023. May try one of your suggestions for a slicer but 4th of July is delicious, prolific, no splitting (unfortunately, huge Cherokee Purple split; cut bottom half & made tasty basil sauce w pasta). Thank you for the ideas! JCG
I feel your tomato pain! Some places around the country had bumper crops this year. Enjoying your taste test, thanks! My tomatoes were a bust this season! All indeterminate except for Roma. I had one nice flush, then they couldn't handle the heat. I've kept a few completely pruned Vines, 8 ft long, with new Healthy Growth on the end and at the base. Wondering if something will happen, a bit of an experiment. Even the deadest looking of vines is bright green with water flowing when I cut through it, I'll report back. Ha!
Good deal! I have some green on the ends of vines still, but the whole row is a sad looking mess. I'm ready to clean it all up, but not ready to give up fresh tomatoes for a whole year!
I did not get any tomatoes planted because we travelled in May. I do have a volunteer cherry tomato that flowered but so far too hot to fruit. The melons are doing very well. Have a honey dew and 6 bush sugar baby watermelons growing strong on the chain link fence (alley and vacant lot bordering fence so no neighbors involved). Last year I grew San Marzano, Cherokee Purple, and Roma. I also love Early Girl which is yes, a hybrid but quite easy to grow.
I grew some Cherokee Carbon tomatoes. LOTS of splitting, but they are wonderfully flavorful. Romas didn't do well overall. Had some sunrise or sunset sauce variety, and I lost them all to blight. One day they were gorgeous, the next day they were in the final stages of death. Another variety of Romas I had an endless battle against blossom end rot, but I managed to see a few through to harvest. I used to like Roma tomatoes sliced in a salad.
I had that overnight death one time. It was incredible. Yes, I know that if I controlled the rain, results would be more predictable. Growing in a greenhouse would be awesome, but I can't put that in my front yard where the sun is.
@@Latebloomershow This was my first time planting more than a couple of cherry tomato plants in a couple of planters and a handful of herbs. My "gardening" this year was still limited to container gardening, but I planted multiple types of tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, carrots, asparagus, and several types of peppers. The news of the war in Ukraine and related shortages got my attention, and my interest in food preservation suddenly became intense and acute. But I got a late start, so I determined at the outset that this was going to be a seed saving and learning year for me. That said, the sudden loss of the Romas was a huge disappointment. My plants literally went from extravagantly healthy foliage and lots of fruit production to a diseased and dying state overnight. I went from having a gorgeous container jungle to spending the rest of the summer trying to nurse tomato and cucumber plants to enough health in order to produce enough just for seeds. But as my tomatoes struggled more my garden became more a source of despondency than joy. I was really hoping to get enough tomatoes to try my hand at canning some. Now with it being the end of the season, I may barely get enough to at least try canning a jar or two of my own tomatoes - just for the experience. The upshot of it all is that I got a lot of hands on experience with managing a variety of tomato and cucumber diseases and pests, and I should be able to do better next year. 😊 I did actually can some jalapeno peppers yesterday, so I'm counting that as a win!
It was a difficult growing season all around. You had too much rain, we had none! 3 months in Texas with 0 rain. Since August we've only had a couple inches but I love watering my plants and observing everything. My favorite this year was the Kellogg's Breakfast...so tasty! I've got my fall tomatoes growing and doing well and hopefully will have enough time. I had great success with my Hoss Tools determinates. I hope to get a bunch of Sun Gold to ferment. Loved your review!
I am in Indiana. This year, I planted three kinds of tomatoes. All cracked except the Mountain Fresh variety (there were two slighty cracked from one of those plants). Beautiful tomatoes, but not a lot of flavor. I also planted Serbian Prince. They tasted good, but cracked horribly.
I was recently told that if your tomato is ripe it can be refrigerated without harming the flavor and it will be slow to over ripen. If it is not fully ripe it cannot be refrigerated. I have not tested this but would be interested in hearing if anyone has.
I refrigerated those samples as I didn't have time to do it the day before. They were not as good as fresh, but I don't know if you can trust that either.
I've come to accept hybrids(Jet Star , Jetsetter) as my reliable workhorses with open pollinated as treats. Times are too precarious to not bring in a big harvest to process.
You are probably right, though those first four plants I bought from my neighbor, got diseased and didn't produce much. So, IDK, probably my soil or conditions here, or not enough spray, or too much, or.....
@Kaye, I wish I had the room to grow so many varieties of tomato. I put my money on Amish paste this year and they were a disappointment. Next year, I will plant Cherokee Purple that I love and cans well. Here, in my urban homestead in swampy Northern VA, I am a member of an Amish "food club". I have been buying canning tomatoes from my farmer since 2020 and saving the seeds that I am sure are his family heirloom. He won't tell me the name so I call them Esh Tomatoes after him. That will be my second tomato for next year. My big discovery this year is Stacy's marvelous delicious fermented tomato sauce that will keep in the back of the fridge all winter, like refrigerator pickles. Thank you for sharing your tomatoes varieties that have tempted me plant more. haha. ❤🍅🍅🍅
I may go back to Cherokee Purple. Haven't used that in years. Wow, I must check out Stacy's recipe. I have a few tomatoes left. Course if power goes out... just have to eat it all up quickly.
@@Latebloomershow Stacy keeps her fermented foods in her root cellar. Does your home have a dark cellar/basement? If you only have a few tomatoes left you will eat it up before the power goes off. The problem is t reaches its peak flavor after a week or more. So you have to wait. haha Here is a link to Doug/Stacy's root cellar videos I have not watched yet. ua-cam.com/users/OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACYsearch?query=root%20cellar For the tomato ferment, all those little "single person" size garlics you harvested are perfect to add to the quart jars. Ingredients are fresh basil, salt, garlic. The fully fermented tomato sauce is a tad watery, not thick. A tablespoon of the probiotic juice tastes yummy albeit a bit on the salty side. still yummy! ua-cam.com/video/CFIZao6pBAc/v-deo.html
@@Latebloomershow Yes! Despite being soft the tomatoes tasted really great and were less salty in taste than they had seemed a couple of weeks ago. They looked so smooshed that I thought about just tossing them, but after sampling some, I was happily surprised. They can stay. 😉 I appreciated your mentioning the tougher skinned variety. I will try to grow some just for fermenting. I fermented cherry tomatoes with red onion slices, garlic, lemon thyme, and basil. I did another batch with vidalia onions, sweet banana peppers, lemon thyme, and a chile pepper. Scent-wise, that batch smells amazing - reminds me of an Italian restaurant. I sampled a bit of onion from that batch, and it was delicious. Haven't gotten into the peppers yet. I fermented some red onions (quick technique) this summer to put on a burger, and we liked it so much that that is something I just keep on hand in the fridge most of the time now. They are great on sandwiches, sausages, salads, and sometimes just as a snack, or used as a quick topping for fresh tomatoes.
Why aren't people pulling tomatoes before the rain? If they're at Breaker Stage or Blushing - they have everything they need to attain as full a flavor as if left on the vine.
@@Latebloomershow Great! I hate to see peeps' hard work being lost to rain or critters cuz everyone feels the need to pick when they're pristinely ripe. When it's not necessary. A lot of heartbreak out there lol
Kaye, it’s really hard to grow heirloom tomatoes in the south . We grow mostly hybrids with the exception of paste tomatoes. If you want large slicing tomatoes, try Red Snapper and Roadster. Hoss sells them. They are determinate tomatoes. You had my mouth watering tasting those tomatoes! Yum!
I guess you must be right. Two years in a row with a ton of issues. Although with the good soil and better sun in the lower garden, I feel if I'd not crowded them, and gotten all the vines up on the trellis and not falling on the ground, I would have had a much better result. But, then, we had lots of rain so tons of splitting. I think the only way is in a controlled environment with irrigation and greenhouse to keep out bugs, but they get so hot, and anyway, I don't have one, haha. Thanks for the recs!
@@pamelaremme38 Really…I didn’t know Pam. Wow…maybe that’s why my sauce turned out good! I lucked out 🤣🤣. I did add my others in the sauce, but 90% of my sauce was Roma. I’m learning all this stuff and having such a good time. Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks!! 🤣🤣. Thank you Pam for your comment! I’ll for sure plant mostly Roma next year 😀
@@cbass2755 You are very welcome. I'm having fun too. Always learning new things. Catsup was my new thing this year. Also learned how to make homemade bloody mary mix out of my canned tomato juice. Yummy!
@@cbass2755 Also a little hint: Plant lots of cherry tomato plants. They are very abundant with lots of fruits. Freeze your tomatoes as they come ripe. I put in a 1 gal freezer bag. That is 5 lbs. I add the cherry tomatoes with my other tomatoes. Always remember.....depending what you are canning ex: sauce....cook down time will be longer if you use other kinds of tomatoes other than Roma or a canning tomato. To learn some of these techniques Living Traditions Homestead and That 1800's Homestead channel on you tube are great canning teaching channels. Also Homestead Heart.
Where's...Im thinkin tomato sandwiches now !!! Mayo, white bread , salt and pepper !!!! Nothin like it !! .......Southern thing. Yeahhh Thanks Kate....Bless you...stay pretty --------.
Sounds great! I need a loaf of bread! When I went to the community garden in Mobile doing a video, we harvested tomatoes and had just that! Take a look! 2017. ua-cam.com/video/4iQbRu1Wc9o/v-deo.html
Hi. Tomatoes crack not from the amount of water, but from a lack of potassium, calcium and boron. The roots of plants will never take so much water to make a tomato crack. With an excess of water, the roots will simply suffocate and rot. Fruits receive plastic substances from the leaves as a result of photosynthesis and moisture from the roots with mineral salts. If the recipes are balanced, then the tomato simply grows and is filled with sugars and vitamins. Calcium is a conductor of plastic substances from leaves, and calcium is the building material of cells. Boron accelerates the formation, movement and exchange of carbohydrates from the leaves to the roots. Improves photosynthesis, increases the content of chlorophyll. It has a positive effect on the absorption of calcium. With a lack of these elements, the fruits crack from water. This is taught in Russia in the 4th grade of school at a botany lesson. 2. For the destruction of insects there is a mushroom Boverium. He parasitizes them, their offspring and solves the problem for a long time. It is even more effective to use it together with phytoverm. They do not affect people, animals or birds Have a good gardening and great harvests.
Lately it's been on my mind it would be better to live in Russia than here where the chemical companies reign supreme. Thank you for sharing valuable information! Is there Boverium powder to put around plants or you mean the mushrooms have to grow there?
@@Latebloomershow Hi. In Russia, there is a drug Boverin containing spores of the fungus Boverium. In addition, there is a drug Metarizine containing spores of the fungus Metarizium. The effect of Metarizium is the same as that of Boveverium. I think there are similar biological products in the USA, too. Aliexpress definitely has Boverin Insecto and Metarizin Insecto.These preparations are slightly embedded in the soil and spilled with water.
@@Latebloomershow Chemical companies cannot rule in Russia. Of the 150 million citizens of Russia, 60 million people are members of the Gardeners' Union. About 40 million garden plots with an average area of half an acre belong to urban residents. Gardening is the most popular hobby of Russians and residents of other countries of the former USSR, where garden plots were also given free of charge for recreation of citizens of the USSR
@@Latebloomershow If there are no biologics in the USA, which I wrote about. Spray the plants with colloidal sulfur. It protects against both insects and fungi, does not penetrate into the plant and is easily washed off with water.
I have a new favorite this year! Mr. Stripey! Juicy and sweet! Our pest has been grasshopper! When you walk outside it is like popcorn popping!
Oh my word! That would be discouraging as it's so hard to catch them. I have heard of that variety. Glad to know!
Nice to see the various tomatoes from your plot. Thanks for sharing your taste test. Cheers.
Thank you!
You are too funny Kaye. A stink bug convention. OMG
I try to bring a little fun to the stink bug invasion. I will be better prepared next year, though I don't know how just yet. Everyone around here always has and does use Seven Dust.
Excellent review of your tomatoes Kaye! Some varieties just fizzle out with the turn in the weather and others still produce great. Always helpful to know which varieties you will grow again and why.
Very true! And Thank you. I know it would have been a better review a month earlier, but so much to do, too little time. I hope to do better next year with timing videos. Blessings!
I also got free black vernissage with a baker creek seed order several years ago and it remains a must-grow for me. i added pink vernissage this year. Both are very productive, even in this hot drought we have had in north Georgia this year. They are still putting ut new tomatoes after others have given up.
Yes! Just found a few more yesterday. Down to the dregs though. Glad you like them.
You might benefit by doing what I have done. I and some fellow gardener friends, instead of each of us growing everything, divided several cultivars amongst ourselves, each concentrating on growing just a few WELL and then sharing the crop at maturity. It's less stress on both the garden and the gardener.
Something to remember about tomatoes is, in order to set fruit successfully, there needs to be a minimum of 10 degrees (cooler) temperature difference come evening.
Interesting! I did not know that. Thanks! And yes that does seem like a great plan, and if you have such a community you are very fortunate!
That's how it's been here in southwest Virginia with my tomatoes. Yes stink bugs too! Lots of rain splitting and cracking.
Glad to know it's not just my lack of care. Thanks!
I am guessing you'll have a ton of volunteers next year. With all your space, I'd let them go wild. Yippee!
Well, I did this year and not one plant did well. IDK why. I pulled nearly all of them out.
@@Latebloomershow darn!
Wow! They all look delicious Kaye ♥️ Lost of juicy wonderfullness from them. I’d have to have a salt shaker with me…🤣🤣. It’s so fun to taste and review what you’ve grown….good job!
Thanks so much!
I enjoyed your taste test of your tomatoes! Thank you!
Thank you, Peggy!
I really appreciate you sharing the results of your tomato season. Very informative hearing your feedback on the different varieties. I had quite a few tomato blossoms fall off early on. Fortunately, the next round of blossoms held, and the bees showed up. Good tomato harvest but not great like last year's was. I planted Ananas Noire for the first time this year and it's a pretty darn good variety (pinkish purple highlights with predominate green shoulders and a colorful, streaked interior, moderately meaty).
Wow, that sounds interesting! I'm making a note. Thanks, Linda!
You have lots of beautiful varieties!
Thanks so much 😊
My favorite are Ozark Tommy Toe, German Johnson, Celebrity, Cherokee Purple, Campbell 33, Better Boy, Early Girl. German Johnson and Celebrity is my favorite for canning or making juice. Campbell 33 is the best for canning into soup. My ozark Tommy Toe grows past frost for me and my chi's loves this tomato straight off the plant.
I am going to try a few extra next year, not sure which. My middle daughter likes yellow and orange tomatoes so I need to find one for her. I tried Aunt Ruby's German Green this year and I liked it. It done wonderful for my pickled green tomatoes & onion canning. I missed my tomatoes for tomato paste this year, not sure how I forgot it. I've grown these in NC & KY and done very well.
Thank you for doing this video and I may go ahead order some a couple new varieties. Have a Blessed Day.
Bless you, too! How did you do your onion canning? You have to use the pressure canner? Thanks for sharing all those. I'm saving this info.
That was great! Inspired to grow more varieties than I do! Thank you!
Beautiful tomatoes, even if they have high water content. Good video! ♥️🙏🏼♥️
Thanks, Judy! Much love!
Thanks, Kaye! Loved the taste test.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi from South Florida Kaye. Just planting my Brandywine tomatoes in containers outdoors!
Sounds great! I hope you have great success!
Great looking variety of tomatoes. I only grew Sungold (cherry) tomatoes, Giant Red (cherry) tomatoes, Cherokee Purple (slicers), Chocolate Cherry (cherry) tomatoes and Lemon Boy (Slicers). I will have to try some of those next year.
Sounds great! Sometimes it's better to go with what you know and only add one or two extra. I went overboard. Next year will be different.
@@Latebloomershow I wish I had the space to grow for all my tomato needs like Sarah and Kevin on Living Tradition Homestead. In the near future we are going to move farther north from where we are now closer to beginning of North GA. I am so glad you found a helper this summer - at least one day a week is good.
We grew one called Everglades. It’s a cherry. It withstood all the bugs and humidity of South Georgia. We only used about 10% because we couldn’t keep up.
Wow, I should make a note. Where did you find the seeds?
Why don't you put them in the freezer and when you have 20 lbs make tomato juice. Very very easy!!! 1 gal baggie is 5 lbs. (It is for me anyway but I mix in other tomatoes in with them.) Put the frozen tomatoes in a Nesco roaster, mash them. Then put them in a cone colander and use a pistil to mash in the cone. This removes the skins and seeds. Then hot water bath. 25 lbs gives you about 11 quarts.
@@pamelaremme38 so limited on freezer space. I froze a few. We’ll have to eat the contents down to make room!
Enjoyed hearing your choices of tomatoes & opinion! I planted 6 (too many in my small, raised bed garden 8’x12’). My best results has been 4th of July & am hoping the San Mazana will redden. Loved the Sun Gold cherry but little yellow pear had little depth of flavor so fermented as a salsa. Will only plant 3-4 in 2023. May try one of your suggestions for a slicer but 4th of July is delicious, prolific, no splitting (unfortunately, huge Cherokee Purple split; cut bottom half & made tasty basil sauce w pasta). Thank you for the ideas! JCG
I feel your tomato pain! Some places around the country had bumper crops this year.
Enjoying your taste test, thanks!
My tomatoes were a bust this season! All indeterminate except for Roma. I had one nice flush, then they couldn't handle the heat. I've kept a few completely pruned Vines, 8 ft long, with new Healthy Growth on the end and at the base. Wondering if something will happen, a bit of an experiment. Even the deadest looking of vines is bright green with water flowing when I cut through it, I'll report back. Ha!
Good deal! I have some green on the ends of vines still, but the whole row is a sad looking mess. I'm ready to clean it all up, but not ready to give up fresh tomatoes for a whole year!
I did not get any tomatoes planted because we travelled in May. I do have a volunteer cherry tomato that flowered but so far too hot to fruit. The melons are doing very well. Have a honey dew and 6 bush sugar baby watermelons growing strong on the chain link fence (alley and vacant lot bordering fence so no neighbors involved). Last year I grew San Marzano, Cherokee Purple, and Roma. I also love Early Girl which is yes, a hybrid but quite easy to grow.
I grew early girl my first year in CA, but was disappointed when it stopped producing, haha. Since then, it's been indeterminates, come good or bad.
I grew some Cherokee Carbon tomatoes. LOTS of splitting, but they are wonderfully flavorful.
Romas didn't do well overall. Had some sunrise or sunset sauce variety, and I lost them all to blight. One day they were gorgeous, the next day they were in the final stages of death. Another variety of Romas I had an endless battle against blossom end rot, but I managed to see a few through to harvest.
I used to like Roma tomatoes sliced in a salad.
I had that overnight death one time. It was incredible. Yes, I know that if I controlled the rain, results would be more predictable. Growing in a greenhouse would be awesome, but I can't put that in my front yard where the sun is.
@@Latebloomershow This was my first time planting more than a couple of cherry tomato plants in a couple of planters and a handful of herbs. My "gardening" this year was still limited to container gardening, but I planted multiple types of tomatoes, herbs, cucumbers, carrots, asparagus, and several types of peppers.
The news of the war in Ukraine and related shortages got my attention, and my interest in food preservation suddenly became intense and acute. But I got a late start, so I determined at the outset that this was going to be a seed saving and learning year for me. That said, the sudden loss of the Romas was a huge disappointment. My plants literally went from extravagantly healthy foliage and lots of fruit production to a diseased and dying state overnight. I went from having a gorgeous container jungle to spending the rest of the summer trying to nurse tomato and cucumber plants to enough health in order to produce enough just for seeds. But as my tomatoes struggled more my garden became more a source of despondency than joy. I was really hoping to get enough tomatoes to try my hand at canning some.
Now with it being the end of the season, I may barely get enough to at least try canning a jar or two of my own tomatoes - just for the experience. The upshot of it all is that I got a lot of hands on experience with managing a variety of tomato and cucumber diseases and pests, and I should be able to do better next year. 😊
I did actually can some jalapeno peppers yesterday, so I'm counting that as a win!
It was a difficult growing season all around. You had too much rain, we had none! 3 months in Texas with 0 rain. Since August we've only had a couple inches but I love watering my plants and observing everything. My favorite this year was the Kellogg's Breakfast...so tasty! I've got my fall tomatoes growing and doing well and hopefully will have enough time. I had great success with my Hoss Tools determinates. I hope to get a bunch of Sun Gold to ferment. Loved your review!
Oh wow! I have one cherry tomato just starting to produce. I forgot to mention that one, as I don't know which one it is. Hope I get lots.
@@Latebloomershow you make me laugh because I SO relate!
I am in Indiana.
This year, I planted three kinds of tomatoes. All cracked except the Mountain Fresh variety (there were two slighty cracked from one of those plants). Beautiful tomatoes, but not a lot of flavor.
I also planted Serbian Prince. They tasted good, but cracked horribly.
Cracking is too much watering or rain.
@@pamelaremme38
We had a lot of rain the first half of summer.
I was recently told that if your tomato is ripe it can be refrigerated without harming the flavor and it will be slow to over ripen. If it is not fully ripe it cannot be refrigerated. I have not tested this but would be interested in hearing if anyone has.
I refrigerated those samples as I didn't have time to do it the day before. They were not as good as fresh, but I don't know if you can trust that either.
Good question my friend. I want to make food last longer into the winter.
I've come to accept hybrids(Jet Star , Jetsetter) as my reliable workhorses with open pollinated as treats. Times are too precarious to not bring in a big harvest to process.
You are probably right, though those first four plants I bought from my neighbor, got diseased and didn't produce much. So, IDK, probably my soil or conditions here, or not enough spray, or too much, or.....
@Kaye, I wish I had the room to grow so many varieties of tomato. I put my money on Amish paste this year and they were a disappointment. Next year, I will plant Cherokee Purple that I love and cans well. Here, in my urban homestead in swampy Northern VA, I am a member of an Amish "food club". I have been buying canning tomatoes from my farmer since 2020 and saving the seeds that I am sure are his family heirloom. He won't tell me the name so I call them Esh Tomatoes after him. That will be my second tomato for next year. My big discovery this year is Stacy's marvelous delicious fermented tomato sauce that will keep in the back of the fridge all winter, like refrigerator pickles. Thank you for sharing your tomatoes varieties that have tempted me plant more. haha. ❤🍅🍅🍅
I may go back to Cherokee Purple. Haven't used that in years. Wow, I must check out Stacy's recipe. I have a few tomatoes left. Course if power goes out... just have to eat it all up quickly.
@@Latebloomershow Stacy keeps her fermented foods in her root cellar. Does your home have a dark cellar/basement? If you only have a few tomatoes left you will eat it up before the power goes off. The problem is t reaches its peak flavor after a week or more. So you have to wait. haha Here is a link to Doug/Stacy's root cellar videos I have not watched yet. ua-cam.com/users/OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACYsearch?query=root%20cellar
For the tomato ferment, all those little "single person" size garlics you harvested are perfect to add to the quart jars. Ingredients are fresh basil, salt, garlic. The fully fermented tomato sauce is a tad watery, not thick. A tablespoon of the probiotic juice tastes yummy albeit a bit on the salty side. still yummy!
ua-cam.com/video/CFIZao6pBAc/v-deo.html
I fermented some cherry tomatoes, and they didn't hold up well, but I worked with what I had.
And so tasty, right?
@@Latebloomershow Yes! Despite being soft the tomatoes tasted really great and were less salty in taste than they had seemed a couple of weeks ago. They looked so smooshed that I thought about just tossing them, but after sampling some, I was happily surprised. They can stay. 😉 I appreciated your mentioning the tougher skinned variety. I will try to grow some just for fermenting. I fermented cherry tomatoes with red onion slices, garlic, lemon thyme, and basil. I did another batch with vidalia onions, sweet banana peppers, lemon thyme, and a chile pepper. Scent-wise, that batch smells amazing - reminds me of an Italian restaurant. I sampled a bit of onion from that batch, and it was delicious. Haven't gotten into the peppers yet.
I fermented some red onions (quick technique) this summer to put on a burger, and we liked it so much that that is something I just keep on hand in the fridge most of the time now. They are great on sandwiches, sausages, salads, and sometimes just as a snack, or used as a quick topping for fresh tomatoes.
Why aren't people pulling tomatoes before the rain? If they're at Breaker Stage or Blushing - they have everything they need to attain as full a flavor as if left on the vine.
I’m out doing this today. More rain coming tomorrow.
@@Latebloomershow Great! I hate to see peeps' hard work being lost to rain or critters cuz everyone feels the need to pick when they're pristinely ripe. When it's not necessary. A lot of heartbreak out there lol
Kaye, it’s really hard to grow heirloom tomatoes in the south . We grow mostly hybrids with the exception of paste tomatoes. If you want large slicing tomatoes, try Red Snapper and Roadster. Hoss sells them. They are determinate tomatoes. You had my mouth watering tasting those tomatoes! Yum!
I guess you must be right. Two years in a row with a ton of issues. Although with the good soil and better sun in the lower garden, I feel if I'd not crowded them, and gotten all the vines up on the trellis and not falling on the ground, I would have had a much better result. But, then, we had lots of rain so tons of splitting. I think the only way is in a controlled environment with irrigation and greenhouse to keep out bugs, but they get so hot, and anyway, I don't have one, haha. Thanks for the recs!
Idk…their isn’t a tomato I don’t like. I grew a lot of Roma and they were delicious. My sauces turned out wonderful. Those you reviewed are nice!
Thanks for sharing! and Thanks!
Roma is a canning tomato because it is more meaty.
@@pamelaremme38 Really…I didn’t know Pam. Wow…maybe that’s why my sauce turned out good! I lucked out 🤣🤣. I did add my others in the sauce, but 90% of my sauce was Roma. I’m learning all this stuff and having such a good time. Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks!! 🤣🤣. Thank you Pam for your comment! I’ll for sure plant mostly Roma next year 😀
@@cbass2755 You are very welcome. I'm having fun too. Always learning new things. Catsup was my new thing this year. Also learned how to make homemade bloody mary mix out of my canned tomato juice. Yummy!
@@cbass2755 Also a little hint: Plant lots of cherry tomato plants. They are very abundant with lots of fruits. Freeze your tomatoes as they come ripe. I put in a 1 gal freezer bag. That is 5 lbs. I add the cherry tomatoes with my other tomatoes. Always remember.....depending what you are canning ex: sauce....cook down time will be longer if you use other kinds of tomatoes other than Roma or a canning tomato. To learn some of these techniques Living Traditions Homestead and That 1800's Homestead channel on you tube are great canning teaching channels. Also Homestead Heart.
LOTS OF BEAUTIFUL TOMATOES, I PROBLE WOULD LIKE THE TASTE OF ALL OF THEM. !!!
Thank you, Sonie! I learned a lot and hope to do better next year.
Where's...Im thinkin tomato sandwiches now !!! Mayo, white bread , salt and pepper !!!! Nothin like it !!
.......Southern thing. Yeahhh
Thanks Kate....Bless you...stay pretty --------.
Sounds great! I need a loaf of bread! When I went to the community garden in Mobile doing a video, we harvested tomatoes and had just that! Take a look! 2017.
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Would you sell the Gary O'Sena seeds?
I don't have enough to sell. Only got a handful.
Use lots of Diatomaceous Earth to kill the bugs.
Hi. Tomatoes crack not from the amount of water, but from a lack of potassium, calcium and boron. The roots of plants will never take so much water to make a tomato crack. With an excess of water, the roots will simply suffocate and rot. Fruits receive plastic substances from the leaves as a result of photosynthesis and moisture from the roots with mineral salts. If the recipes are balanced, then the tomato simply grows and is filled with sugars and vitamins. Calcium is a conductor of plastic substances from leaves, and calcium is the building material of cells. Boron accelerates the formation, movement and exchange of carbohydrates from the leaves to the roots.
Improves photosynthesis, increases the content of chlorophyll.
It has a positive effect on the absorption of calcium. With a lack of these elements, the fruits crack from water.
This is taught in Russia in the 4th grade of school at a botany lesson.
2. For the destruction of insects there is a mushroom Boverium. He parasitizes them, their offspring and solves the problem for a long time. It is even more effective to use it together with phytoverm. They do not affect people, animals or birds Have a good gardening and great harvests.
Lately it's been on my mind it would be better to live in Russia than here where the chemical companies reign supreme. Thank you for sharing valuable information! Is there Boverium powder to put around plants or you mean the mushrooms have to grow there?
Thank you!
@@Latebloomershow Hi. In Russia, there is a drug Boverin containing spores of the fungus Boverium. In addition, there is a drug Metarizine containing spores of the fungus Metarizium. The effect of Metarizium is the same as that of Boveverium. I think there are similar biological products in the USA, too. Aliexpress definitely has Boverin Insecto and Metarizin Insecto.These preparations are slightly embedded in the soil and spilled with water.
@@Latebloomershow Chemical companies cannot rule in Russia. Of the 150 million citizens of Russia, 60 million people are members of the Gardeners' Union. About 40 million garden plots with an average area of half an acre belong to urban residents. Gardening is the most popular hobby of Russians and residents of other countries of the former USSR, where garden plots were also given free of charge for recreation of citizens of the USSR
@@Latebloomershow If there are no biologics in the USA, which I wrote about. Spray the plants with colloidal sulfur. It protects against both insects and fungi, does not penetrate into the plant and is easily washed off with water.
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