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Heirloom Tomatoes

By geekgardener, on March 4th, 2009%

Today was a very happy day. The reason was, This morning I had been to Dept Of Hort(DOH) to collect the seed packets. I am now Tomato Rich!!!.. I have all the heirloom varieties that are available in DOH. I think i am a seed-a-holic.

There are close to 20 varieties and all of them are attractive in their own way. I think I am going to have a tough time deciding which one to sow first. I sort of like’em all.

When I saw the list in DOH, there was no illustration on each variety. As a reason, I am writing this post to illustrate with pictures each variety.

1. Oxheart Orange:

2. Black Prince:

3. Des Andes:

4. Gregori Altai:

5. Black Plum:

6. Green Zebra:

7. Black Krim:

8. Caro Rich:

9. Orange Queen:

10. Gold Dust:

11. Podland Pink:

12. High Country:

13. Stupice Early:

14. Peasant:

15. Double Rich:

16.Trigorella

17. Santion

18.Bonnie Best

19. Golden delight.

20.Madanapalli

21. Burbank

Thanks to Chandrakala of DOH for patiently packing all the varieties and thanks to google for fetching me images ;D

more later.

gg

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Red, White and Green

By geekgardener, on February 20th, 2009%

No, Its not about a flag or its color. This title is about my latest harvest from the terrace container garden.

I have 3 container with White Brinjal growing in them. By the looks of it, it was very clear why the name eggplant was given to it. But As I gave time to the plant for its fruits to grow, I ended up fruits of the size of an egg.. an ostrich egg…. I actually got 2 batches of the harvest in a weeks gap.

This guy was the biggest of all.

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Batch 1:

The “Eggs” were really soft and had an amazing taste.

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Batch 2: We have the red, we have the white and there is green ;)

By the way, dont start praising and give credit to the eggplant for bearing a Nokia cellphone. I just threw it in there to make the size of the veggies more sensible. The tomatoes and the chilles are from the garden too.

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Tomatos are no less and are competing with the eggplant..

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I am sowing Okra this week in 10 containers. WIll keep posted of the progress..

till then…

gg

NOTE: Now the pics are taken by my good-old Nokia 6600. Bear with the quality and the clarity.

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