black vernissage tomato days to maturity

#Black vernissage tomato days to maturity skin#

Lately it’s been hard for me to find proper straw bales that don’t collapse halfway through the summer and kill my plant roof systems, so I’m using fabric grow bags this year. As the plants grew I would lay them onto the arch and secure with ties, and by summers end sometimes the plants would wrap from one side of the arch to the other, then back. I just walk through the tunnel and pick tomatoes from overhead. (Do a search for “straw bale arch trellis” to see pics.) That gives me a 6 foot tall trellis to walk under, a pathway in the middle, and growing areas inside and outside the trellis. The arch itself is made from 8 9-foot t posts and 3 12-foot long cattle panels. I made one 2 springs ago when I started straw bale gardening. If you’ve got the room, I highly suggest a tomato tunnel. I do this on a low temp in the oven tossed with a bit of olive oil and I freeze them. Oh, I ‘sun dry’ them too, the little ones are perfect for it. All for our house, I can grow enough veggies for a years worth of tomatoes for sauce or recipes, salsas and condiment sauces. 🙂 I’m blessed to have lots and lots of space for gardening, whatever I can keep up with and that’s the deciding factor there, I’m a one woman garden pretty much and I grow lots of stuff.

Cherry types are: Yellow Gooseberry and Snow White, yellowish orange and whitish cream respectively, both are out of this world sweet. Canning and sauce: San Marzano, of course, so dependable. Other favorites are Mortgage Lifter, Hillbilly, and Ruth’s Perfect. That’s a slicer, but we use it for everything.

#Black vernissage tomato days to maturity skin#

The skin is so tender, I have to be careful picking them, just the pressure of my fingers on their tender skin can bruise them, so they are very local….as in my garden to my table! You can’t buy these, and that’s what so wonderful about herilooms, the flavors of these tomatoes are so unique, it can’t be matched by something bred to be able to withstand transport and long storage. For years I tried to get my then younger daughters to like tomatoes to no avail, but one of them liked how beautiful the Homer Fike was and she loved it, she ate a huge slice right then and there! It’s a huge, meaning 1-2 lb. So cool! It’s also the most delicious tomato I’ve ever tasted. Homer Fike’s Yellow Oxheart is one that fits both criteria: it was grown in WV for generations until the great granddaughter (I think) of Homer Fike shared the seeds with others. 🙂 When I order my seeds, I try to find something that is acclimated to my growing climate, and quite honestly because the name is so cool. Oh my, I could do a 15 part post on tomatoes alone! I love my heirlooms, it’s what I plant, but there is a place for hybrids, there are some nice varieties, I just like the freedom of being able to save seed from any tomato I grow and know it will come back true. The more you know, the more you can grow. Hope this helps you choose the right seeds for you! Already have your tomato plan? Let me know what variety you’ll be growing this year! Cherry tomatoes, Red & Yellow Pear, Brandywine, Beefstake, Sun Gold, and most Heirloom varieties are indeterminate. They require a lot more space and support than a determinate.

Sun Gold Cherry and bear fruit all summer long. Here are the seeds I ordered and will plant this year in my own garden: With a seemingly endless amount of tomato types, how do you know which ones you should be planting? Specifically let’s talk about tomato seeds and which ones are right for your garden. So let’s have some warm thoughts and turn our focus to spring-ish things, like planting seeds. Those visions help me get through this frigid time of year. Buuuttt, here I am dreaming about a vegetable garden in the depths of winter. Some parts of the country are covered in snow.