TOMATOES, CHICKENS and more in the urban garden: AMISH RED TOMATO

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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.

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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

AMISH RED TOMATO

AMISH RED - (D) -Catalog #1
Leaf Type - Regular Leaf

A wonderful tomato! Tomatofest organic tomato seeds produce tall, indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that yield an abundant crop of meaty, 1 1/2-inch long, oblong-shaped, bright-red tomatoes with sharply-pointed end. (The same shape and flavor as Amish Gold but red. The two together are like brother and sister.) The small tomato packs a wallop of delicious, sweet flavors with a slightly tart finish. A great patio or small garden tomato. Grows well in cooler, coastal regions. Perfect as a salad tomato or in a bowl for snacking. for Tomatofest is one of the very few sources for these rare tomato seeds.
SIMPLY TOMATOES NOTES:
Bushy Plant – OK in Pot – Small Plant and Tomato. This plant has not suffered much due to cold July, but is in the sunniest part of the garden. Doesn't even mind being trampled by the chickens occasionally !