Sunday, June 5, 2011

Tomatoes

These are pearl drops and red rambling stripe tomatoes. I can't really take credit for these as I bought them in hanging baskets. The hanging baskets were on sale for $4. For that I got the hanging basket with 4 tomato plants in each. They are producing quite well, not real remarkable in the flavor department (especially the yellow ones but I tend to find yellow tomatoes a bit tasteless), but I really like how well they have put up with my sporadic watering (in other words, they can wilt and still survive). I will have to look up a seed source for these next year so I can start  my own instead of buying them. I have tried several other varieties in hanging baskets before and all have produced but none quite this well.
The tomatoes in the garden are doing quite well too. If I can just keep whatever is eating them off of them. Right now my plant eater has moved on to the bell peppers, sigh.

4 comments:

  1. I'm going to disagree with you on the "yellow tomatoes are less tasty" statement, Becky. One of the varieties I grew last year was the orangey-yellow "Sungella", and it was fabulous. Great looks and great flavour too.

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  2. I'll have to look into getting seeds for that one Mark. I do love different color tomatoes.

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  3. A hanging basket bargain. I've never tried a yellow tomato, but I am a huge fan of the green ones so I might have to give them a go!

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  4. Well, I have never tried a green one, lol, I haven't tried the purple ones either. I don't know why, something about them just make my mind think they won't taste good. I'll have try one sometime and prove myself wrong.

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