kctomato wrote: 



congrats

 kctomato wrote: 
a true Zen garden! 

 sirdroseph wrote:  Wifey and I went to botanical gardens in salt lake and they did that with apple trees, kinda bent them around steel fenceing material. Anyway made an arc you could walk through with apples hanging down . Very cool

 kctomato wrote: 
Beautiful tomatoes!
Congrats on the great news article.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
 
Ah-ha! Thanks!

 kctomato wrote: 
bump for Alexandra

 sirdroseph wrote: 
oh wow! that's so pretty and a great idea.

Not mine, someday maybe but pretty cool:

 kctomato wrote: 
Very cool and congrats on the write up.

Picture of my tomatoes from and article today

For the most part Grumpy Cat (me) is not impressed with most of these dark lines.

They originally get their color from 2 different wild species and there is some perceivable carry over for negative taste from the wild parents. At least perceivable to me. I've sampled several kinds of wild tomatoes most wouldnt have the opportunity to try. My advice, Don't/  Many are bitter or astringent in taste. Kinda like putting a dab of alum in your mouth (what happened to the yacking emoticon?).

Anyway I keep trying to improve that by crossing the advancements into good flavored backgrounds and hopefully retain the "blue" and get rid of that genetic drag.

I grew out more than 70 different lines this year and they are just starting to ripen. I have had just one so far that was better than average, It had some sweetness and I really didnt get the sense of that wild flavor as much.

A number of other people acquired the original breeding lines (or some form of them) as I had. They seemed to be focused on putting them into "pretty" backgrounds, Out of the ones I have tried just one was okay. The others barely made average and still had that wild taste.

Examples of other's:
http://tatermater.proboards.com/thread/412/seattles-blue-woolly-mammoth
http://www.wildboarfarms.com/wild-boar-farms-tomato.html

Here are some from the field. I think they look better before they ripen.







All the ones above are from this project which explains the background of the blue trait and some of what I have done with it over the past few years (I havent updated it this year).
http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/p20.htm

 kctomato wrote: 
That's awesome!

 kctomato wrote: 
Very cool looking and I bet they are delicious...Let me give you my address so I can help you out with some of those, K, you know because I don't want you to be too overloaded.

tomatoes out the yin-yang now

Can you resize that one photo please?

Outdoor gardens have taken a major hit this year between way too much rain and attacks from Hurricane Maggie (our big goofy lab).  However the greenhouse is producing just fine:


Those plants lined up on the shelf are Cocoa, they are doing quite well.  And of course the Tilapia are getting big!

Pictures from the FoodNow Benefit (mentioned in Gardeners Corner thread).







Chef Martin plating up our tomatoes:



and I don't do this often...

 Coaxial wrote: 

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 Isabeau wrote: 
 
Thanks, Izzy - glad you enjoyed it!