Wow, I can't believe it has been over a month since posting! The balcony garden is doing well, as well as the community garden raised bed garden. I ended up purchasing the fancy texas tomato cage for the raised bed garden - I feel this has probably made a huge difference in the size of the plant. The supersweet 100 plant is like 6 ... maybe even 7 feet tall. And the tomatoes are so much bigger than what I got last year.
The tomatoes I'm growing on the balcony are mostly determinate or dwarf variety that
Carol shared with me. I has been pretty amazing. I've been harvest a lot of tomatoes from both locations. It has been just fantastic! Here are some pictures
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Minigold tomato..or is it? |
This minigold tomato is very curious. After reading about these tomatoes on Carol's blog, I was expecting them to be bright yellow - but it turns out it is bright orange - almost like a sungold. These taste wonderful - but maybe it is some new hybrid variety. I've saved some seeds so it will be interesting to see what kind of fruit it will produce next year!
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From Balcony: More minigold tomato and a couple of bush beans before the plant died... |
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From Balcony: More minigold (so productive!) and dwarf champion and golden dwarf champion tomatoes |
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From Balcony: Edamame, semi-final minigold harvest, dwarf champion, golden dwarf, cherokee purple |
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From community garden: Baxter bush cherry, supersweet 100 and cherokee purple |
I am sitting here writing while nibbling on the edamame. This is my first time growing it and it tastes SOOOOO good. I love edamame, but these freshly harvested edamame are the sweetest and most delicious ones I've ever had. I'm going to try to grow some more - maybe I can squeeze one more crop before winter? I have to calculate how many days it has taken to get to this point to see if I still have enough time.
I'm linking to Daphne's
Harvest Monday! Now that the harvests are coming in very steadily, I'm going to try to document a little bit better.