WELCOME URBAN GARDENERS

The goal of this blog is to educate, encourage and entertain fellow Urban Gardeners; your comments and suggestion are encouraged to make this blog a better place to visit.

Our focus is Heirloom Tomatoes and Urban Chickens, but we will also add posts on other fruits, vegetables and gardening ideas as we see relevant.

All of the photographs are my own photography, and can be used; please give me a photo credit. You can also purchase full-sized images.

To see what I really do for a living when I am not in my garden visit my business website and blog

Hewey

Hewey
"The wise one"

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

RUTGERS IMPROVED

RUTGERS IMPROVED - (D) - Catalog #28
Leaf Type - Regular
Days to Maturity - 70

SIMPLY TOMATOES NOTES:
Rutgers was developed by the Campbell Soup Company in 1928 from a cross of Marglobe and J.T.D. The variety was later refined by Rutgers University in 1943.]
Rutgers Improved is a Rutgers-type tomato with additional disease resistance.
This is a short, bushy, compact, determinate tomato plants that yield 7 oz., dark-red tomatoes with thick walls that are loaded with delicious flavors. Excellent tomato for canning.

This is a strong flavored, delicious regular tasting tomato. The plant is quite small, about 2-3' in height and is quite suitable for pots.

The growing season of 2009, meant that tomato production for the Determinate plants here in the Bay Area was not good and even though this plant showed no real signs of wear and tear, it also produced a limited number of tomatoes unfortunately

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