Showing posts with label anna russian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anna russian. Show all posts

Saturday, August 09, 2008

Photos from 8-8-08

This is the largest harvest of strawberries, so far this year. Variety is Albion.


Bunch of tomatoes again. The bottom most is Caspian Pink, the first one this season. Other varieties shown are Orange Strawberry, Brandywine O.T.V., Brandywine from Croatia, and lots of Anna Russians. Oh yeah, there are 3 small Roma-style. I'm not sure what the variety is. I thought I wast planting Polish Linguisa, but these are not that variety.

Thursday, August 07, 2008

Grandkids (dogs) with backpacks

Sunflower looks like it has dreadlocks.


The kids are ready for school or at least a hike. They both now can carry enough water and poo for a couple of hours away from home. Button's new backpack is from Ruffwear. It seems like it is going to be a lot better than Carbon's. After a couple of hikes we will see if we need to get Carbon a new pack.

I picked several Anna Russian tomatoes this morning and shared them with some friends. Emily of luckymathilda, ended up with this beauty. I hope Sharla also enjoys the plain, boring tomatoes she received ;)

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Bean flowers of different colors


This variety of bean has 2 different color flowers, yellow and white.


Beans, beans, the more you eat them, the more you fart.


Another Anna Russian tomato. There are about 7 tomatoes ready to pick again on this plant. It definitely likes growing in my garden. I will make sure to plant it next year. Maybe even more than one plant.

Saturday, August 02, 2008

Freakish tomatoes

The sunflowers leaves are being chewed on, but I'm sure the seeds are developing nicely anyway.

This is a flower from a leek. The variety is Prizetaker. If you look at the bigger image you can see a little bee on the purple flowers.


I harvested many tomatoes today. I thought I would start you off with the normal looking ones and then get to the freaks. This is Brandywine O.T.V. (Off the Vine) with a potato leaf. It is the only red variety I planted this year.


Brandywine from Croatia. They are pink with a regular leaf. It is a rare variety, only available from Santa Clara Master Gardeners. I hope to save seeds from it, so I can grow from my own seeds.


Anna Russian. By far, the most productive of my tomatoes so far this year.


Now some of the freaks. This is Ed's Millennium. I picked one normal looking tomato and a crazy looking monster tomato. I have more pictures below.


It doesn't look so scary on the plant.


On the food scale it weighs 1 pound, 8.5 ounces. That's a big tomato!!!


Freak!

One of the Anna Russian's is looking a little bit like an alien too. I'm sure they will taste great.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Sunflower and First tomato

The Sunflower has completely opened now.



Anna Russian - Green shoulders are a common characteristic of this variety.