July 31 More Tomato Tastings

Yellow Brick Road - meaty with sweet flavour - not as much tang for balance  TASTE oops missed this

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Harmonic Convergence (from the Dwarf Tomato Project) - bit on the mild side (not quite ripe?), but a lovely deep red meaty slicer  TASTE  7+

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Berkeley Tie-Dye Pink - very smooth, juicy, on the sweet side with good after tang - gentle but flavourful  TASTE 8+

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July 30 Bed 107

decided to given Garden 107 one more chance ....... removed all plants apart from beans, added a fresh topping of soil and scatter planted seeds hopefully for fall cut and come again .... this garden seems to grow beans well, so also planted a few yellows ...... the Red Swan will be kept for seed saving ........ also trying out a Spanish unnamed tomato donated by a neighbour

 

July 29 Back Forty

Yellow Brick Road 

Lucky Tiger and Tatjiana

PL mystery tomato - decided to grow with one of my potted tomato plants ..... so got its own container

Black Prince snapdragon - interesting with two leaf colours ...... I believe it should be the dark variant

succulents in the sun 

July 29 'R' Garden

July 24, 26 and 27 Tomato Tastings

 Lilibet 4 - clear skin, pink with gold stripe - good balanced flavour, perhaps a bit overripe TASTE: 8

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Rebel Starfighter Prime (Plant 1) - smooth, vaguely sweet, no acid balance, tending toward too soft TASTE:  7+

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Lilibet 6 - very good tang, sweet balance but mild, not a strong flavour  TASTE:  7 

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Dwarf Sara's Olalla Emerald - OMG!!  everything its perfect, rich sweet/acid balance (tiny bit of BER) TASTE: 10

Rebel Starfighter Prime (Plant 2)  mushy - overripe?  texture not there  TASTE 7

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Lilibet 5 - yellow, clear skin, nice texture very meaty and juicy not sure if fully ripe, good flavour balance 11.5 oz. TASTE 8+

Lucky Tiger - very crunchy skin, but not tough, nice sweet/acid balance good texture, juicy  TASTE 9

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July 23 Back Garden Update

tiny green shoot is very special ....... dahlia tuber given to me by special friend ....... was getting eaten to a nub for months in the garden....... moved to a container - now finally - its alive 😁

Rebel Starfighter Prime - for a very sick looking plant, it is producing amazing fruit

and a Nadja eggplant joins two RSP

tidied and watered - still looking good

 

July 22 'R' Garden

not bad for no water for almost a week ........ wasn't too sure about my dahlia selections ...... took what was left at the VDS sale, but they do seem to complement each other ...... and of course the giant zucchini

Red Ryder

Hollyhill Tigress

Finals Julie

overview

blooming!!

my dwarf sunflowers and doing well, the cabbages not so much

flax almost ready to harvest - makes a lovely dried bunch over the winter

the haul