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| Babies in the garden - May 25, 2012 |
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| 'Maters three and a half weeks later, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. |
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| Here's everyone with their skirts up above their heads for the pictures.... five weeks after planting, on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. |
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| Depp's Pink Firefly, the brawny young cuss. |
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| The Depp finally has blossoms setting. If the temps go up to 100 F or more, we'll see who can take it and who shrivels in the heat. I'm betting on the Depp, the Kenny, Lusignan's Special and the Beauty girls - Livingston's and Rose. |
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| Butler Skinner - honey, suck it up and make some fruit. We know you're pretty. Butler will be late to his own funeral - but he's a big, good-lookin' country boy no matter what, so we forgive him. |
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| Lord ha'mercy. Greenbush Italian is splitting her skirts - and she's already got a fruit the size of a ping-pong ball that was just barely there last week. |
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| Hartford is a little puny this year, but has a whopper of a fruit already. She needs a good feeding and a little more humidity. |
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| Hartford's first fruit. |
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| Holy Land is another one that's just busy making pretty green foliage and not a bit interested apparently in making tomatoes. She's loaded up with blossoms, but I think the heat is keeping her dropping the blossoms after they open. Aphids absolutely love this one - and she needs a good airing - so I didn't fold her skirt back down last week. |
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| Holy Land blossoms. Still have no idea what this fruit is going to be like or even if I'll ever get any fruit at this rate! |
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| The Lone Jaune Flammee. Still hanging in there. |
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| Jaune Flammee in the front kitchen garden bed. (Look at this; somebody get out there and kill those nasty morning glories. It is a pure abomination that anyone would be able to sell Rose of Sharon, morning glories, and lantana. Just throw in some kudzu while you're at it.) |
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| I admit it. I can't stand to compost them. Yes, I still have the remaining Jaune Flamees in the compost bucket. Stop me before we're up to our keisters in tomatoes. Oh, wait, that's the point, isn't it? |
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| Look at him. Isn't he a purty boy? And he's got himself some flowers, too. |
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| The Kenny: a monstrous polycarp flower right off the bat. |
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| Livingston's Beauty, being beautiful. |
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| Livingston's Beauty's first humongous fruit. A polycarp....you can see that this should have been three individual tomatoes. |
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| Livingston's Beauty, being prolific. |
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| Lusignan's Special hanging in there. Actually put on a lot of growth this week. For those of you who are fond of useless information, Lusignan is one of the places in western Europe heavily associated with Melusine, the snake-mermaid fairy. Sort of like the fox people in Japanese folk tales - cute, but spooky, and whatever you do, don't make them mad. The added folklore makes me want to hang on to this extremely endangered variety all the more...wild snake fairy tomatoes! |
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| Lusignan's first flowers. |
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| Maruskin's Andes put on quite a bit of growth, but is still fooling around with those blossoms. |
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| Maruskin's Andes flowers. |
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| Peacevine Cherry - a large, fragile-looking, multi-branched plant. The branches are actually as tough as wire and not fragile at all. A cherry with a very open and sprawling habit. I anticipate eight to ten foot vines even in a drought year with this one. |
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| Peacevine fruits, second set. |
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| Polish Linguisa has also put on quite a bit of growth. |
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| Polish Linguisa with the typical wispy-leaf foliage in tight curls. |
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| Polish Linguisa flower cluster; the fruits are usually borne in trusses of three to seven. The fruits are oddly spaced within the truss, and without the symmetry and order of cherry tomato trusses. |
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| Rose Beauty, being her beautiful self. I love this plant. It's another rare gem. |
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| Rose Beauty's incredible first polycarp fruit. This fruit will probably weigh close to two pounds at peak of ripeness. |
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| Even Rose Beauty's single fruit are large and fat. I love these - the fruit is so pretty, just like a fat creamy satin pincushion. Looking forward to that pale golden tomato bisque in late summer.... |
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| Stupice is still out in front.... |
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| Stupice's first fruit truss. These will taste for all the world like a large red beefsteak. |
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| Stupice's first and second truss of fruit. |
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| Verna Orange, bless her little heart. |
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| Verna's first baby! Even though her foliage growth seems to be a little slow this year, Verna is hanging in there and putting out blossoms and fruit. |
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| I love these crazy shoes, but I keep having to floss the clover out of my toes. |
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