Tomatoes and Peppers: Fall Field Notes

wooly kate tomatoes are fuzzy

the leaves of the plants are very fuzzy, covered in small hairs, tomentose even. exploring the extreme ranges of...

sun sugar xl tomatoes, I've been saving seed and growing them for about ten years now

the flavour is distinct in these orange cherry tomatoes, sweeter and fruitier than the average tomato. the xl size come up through some variation, it's almost stable. I've started to keep 2 lines, one round and one egg...

phil's one tomato, like godzilla it has some Reisetomate in it's parentage, the travelers tomato, just break off chunks

to snack on. it's like a fusion of...

manitoba tomato

cool to find one named after our province, it's a medium sized and bright red...

godzilla tomatoes easily break apart into lobes

couple of large bicolour tomatoes, northern lights, and last ones are pineapple

queen of the night tomato, such cool colors

they were the blackest of all our high anthocyanin...

trying this out, drying peppers for seed extraction in halves

less work, usually I'll take out the seeds and dry the peppers / just eat them, seeing...

growing tomatoes in isolation, this method has some frost protection benefits, a few nights now I've cover

then in burlap and run a sprinkler.. -2C / 28F no problem under some cover. our weather is literally 29C with chance of frost this week. you can see some ripe tomatoes on the vine, a good result for our short 100 day...

frost blankets, happened to have about 100 burlap coffee sacks ready

will know later today how much frost damage we got, maybe the tomatoes were fine. we can get 3 more weeks of nice weather...

feels like first day of fall when we get a hard frost

from 2am-8:30, graph is the end photo. as a precaution, burlap and sprinklers over the...

godzilla the only tomato you can just pull apart to eat

carbon, chocolate cherry, garden peach

Grew a few tomatoes with high anthocyanin, still looking for the darkest ones. garden peach is fuzzy, surprised that trait isn’t in...

czech black, pasilla bajio, jimmy nardello, bananarama, super chilli #peppers

green giant, northern lights, dixie golden giant, bulls heart

we grew fifty kinds of heirloom tomatoes in our seed...

first hard frost, wonder if my tomatoes under the sprinkler survived

colder than the forecast. these bluetooth thermometers are so cool to see the graph...

tomato isolation experiment

who posts a five minute video to instagram, obviously longer than anyone’s...

thirty degrees (80F) with a chance of frost describes our spring and fall some years

early september frost is real here, often followed by weeks of nice weather. last night was 1 degree above freezing, so I ran a sprinkler all night over our tomato and pepper garden. survived, and now in the clear for a...

trying some tomato crosses

maybe a bit late in the year, we usually get some frost in the first half of September. trying some black tomato like carbon x godzilla. here are some...

these little guys, sun sugar tomato

they’re my favorite. I’ve been saving seeds from these for almost ten years, occasionally a plant will have red fruit but they’re at least 90% true to type. I planted several groups of them this year from a few...

3 days into germ testing our fushimi pepper seeds, looking good I thought they would take a couple weeks

do fresh pepper seeds germinate...

fish peppers ripening in the greenhouse

5000- 30,000 scoville make them up to 4x hotter than jalapeno...

blueberries tomato

still figuring out the high anthocyanin varieties, when these were unripe they were deep purple more like the name suggests. picked a few weeks ago...

Pepperoncini, italian chilli peppers

sweet with mild heat 100-500...

sweet cherry peppers

grown with isolation bags for seed, also we get to eat them. flavour? starts like a good red bell pepper with a slight cherry after taste that’s distinct, no heat in these...

sun sugar xl, a larger sunsugar tomato at about 1

25”. I’m about five-six years into saving the seeds and these larger ones showed up in the second year. tastes the same as the smaller...

how are heirloom tomatoes in season the most expensive thing in the whole produce section at safeway