TOMATOES, CHICKENS and more in the urban garden: BULL’S HEART

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URBAN GARDENING

I have been growing much of my own 100% organic, fresh food in my Brisbane CA (a few miles south of San Francisco) garden for almost 10 years now – This is the summer of 2009 and we have 31 different Heirloom Tomato plants that we are going to be reviewing (that means munching) and then sharing the information. Much of your success with Tomatoes will definitely depend on the weather.

We have three truly free-ranging hens, Hewey, Louie and Dewey - "the three wise hens" who do lots of their own gardening as well as supply us with eggs and organic garden fertilizer. They are also wonderful weeders. Their antics will entertain you in the following pages.

Also in our Urban Garden we grow apricots, peaches, five varieties of apples, Asian pears, figs, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, pepino melons, lemons, limes, oranges, cherries, grapes, tunas (prickly pears), passionfruit, onions, beans, English peas, cucumber, tomatillos, kale, arugula, a variety of peppers and potatoes.

Our herb collection includes:- parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, Italian and Greek oregano, three different varieties of basil, lemon balm, bee balm, lemon verbena, orange mint, peppermint and spearmint.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

BULL’S HEART

BULL’S HEART – (?D) - Catalog #8
Leaf Type - Regular

Old Russian variety from Vavilov Institute that yields, 1 to 2-pound, oxheart-shaped, pink fruit with few seeds and great taste. Note this first picture shows a twin tomato, they are usually only half of this and look like a heart.

SIMPLY TOMATOES NOTES:
This was the first Tomato of the season, producing an enormous double header tomotoe, with incredible flavor, what a treat. This plant has not liked facing East with an inclement July. It is still producing, but as of mid-August, I am doubtful that it will recover (: September 5 and no this plant was too badly affected by the inclement weather, but kudos to her, she did produce a few wonderful tasting tomatoes. I guess with all this weather change, we just need to prepare our ground with warming materials such as composts and red plastic as well as water walls (more on that in a separate section - they do work).