TOMATOES, CHICKENS and more in the urban garden: WAPSIPINICON PEACH

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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

WAPSIPINICON PEACH

WAPSIPINICON PEACH – (I) - Catalog #19

Leaf Type - Regular
Time to Maturity - 80 days
From Dennis Schlicht. A Gary Ibsen 'personal favorite.' They won't be able to keep from smiling after tasting this! 80 days.

SIMPLY TOMATOES NOTES:

This tomato is very unusual. The flavors are truly wonderful. Named after the Wapsipinicon River in Northeast Iowa. Similar to Peche Jaune. This tomato is an indeterminate, regular-leaf wispy, plant that yield a huge number of of 1 1/2 to 2-inch, delicate, fuzzy-like-a-peach, pale-yellow , juicy, tomatoes with wonderful, slightly-spicy, very fruity-sweet flavors. Harvest is good all the way to frost. A novelty tomato that is s delicious that you will eating it right off the vine.

As of September 5, 2009 this plant has survived the weather, as an indeterminate plant, it has fared much better than many of the determinate plants, that set all of their blossoms/fruit at the same time. Even though this one looked quite bedraggled, it is staging a rather stunning comeback - YUM!