You’re one of the very few people I know who’ve had a good zucchini year, Gotch. That’s great!

@Cornelius_Gotchberg any favorite tomato for 2024 or is it still too early to declare a winner?

karstopography wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 6:43 pm @Cornelius_Gotchberg any favorite tomato for 2024 or is it still too early to declare a winner?

Still too early; sheesh, even the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch's perennial fave Ananas Noire has been struggling to maintain its proper place.

The Gotch

Three (3) good sized Pink Gifts: The Gotch

To paraphrase The Bard: "An Ananas Noire By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet" The lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch mixed it in with her eggs this morning...and just yelled down that it was the best EVAH! The Gotch

At the risk of sounding like an illiterate fool, is your food scale set to ounces or pounds? It's difficult to see in the picture.

Ananas Noir scale reads 1.262 lb

572 grams =1.26 pounds= 20.17 ounces

So the scale is set to pounds. That's a big tomato.

JayneR13 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 10:44 amThat's a big tomato.

It sure as heckfire is for an Ananas Noire. Others? Not so much.

The Gotch

Left bottom Mushroom Basket and Big Bubba, Orange Accordion, and Kellogg's Breakfast The Yeller's a KY Beefsteak, the others? Anyone's guess. Nice sized Radiator Charlie Mortgage Lifter The Gotch

This: Then this: Finally this: The Gotch

That's what I've been doing! It takes a lot of work, but the final product is SO yummy! And I can pronounce every ingredient!

Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 4:20 pm Top: Mama Mia Giallo, Sweet Sunset. Below left Goliath Sweet, and Gypsy Hybrid...all destined for the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch's signature Tortellini Pasta Salad:
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Outstanding Honker Season's (almost) Last Hurrah (couple still on two [2] remaining vines); biggest latest yield EVAH, Big Bubba photobombing on left:
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The Gotch

More than two zukes, and I can still see the tray? Amateur.

The high-yielding, late-ripening, fascinatingly shaped Orange Accordion has made it into The Gotch's Hard_To_Crack permanent rotation: The Gotch

Four (4) sun-kissed Old Germans, one of which will be participating in tomorrow's Monday Morning BLT Brunch! The Gotch

Am looking for a high-yield orange tomato so thanks for the tip.

That Orange Accordion sure is a beautiful fruit!

bower wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 5:57 pm That Orange Accordion sure is a beautiful fruit!

Striking! Any TJers, other than yers truly, who would plant a Tomato based on its shape?

The Gotch

if there isn't some flavor to go with the shape, nah.

but, i do have what i think is a good idea.
tomato art.
either pictures of interesting and colorful tomatoes or someone who is skilled in
ceramics, could make tomatoes, and sell them, or stain glass. let your imagination
and creativity go, and create something people did not think they needed, but do.


keith