As I've said previously, travelling when the garden is in full production and need of near constant attention is rough on the nerves. Today saw a final feeding, harvesting - and tonight a spot watering. I have lots of data collected. My afternoon will consist of processing eggplant and tomatoes into the sauce for Pasta alla Norma, perhaps baking some breaded eggplant rounds, doing a large canning and seed save, and finally, selecting tomatoes to bring to Iowa with us to taste on Saturday.
Just some general data - the range of days to picking from transplant for eggplant is 41 (Skinny Twilight) to 65 (Rosa Bianca) days. We are just in mid July and only 10 days from the first harvest, and I've already picked at least 50 eggplant - and the 14th plant isn't bearing yet.
Of the 38 dwarf tomato plants in bales, I've harvested fruit from all but 9 plants - the days to maturity range is from 50 days (Dwarf Pink Passion) to 73 days (Dwarf Sweet Sue) - those with later DTM will be Sean's Yellow Dwarf, Chocolate Lightning, Chocolate Champion, Summer Sunrise and Sweet Adelaide (the rest of the 9 were planted a bit later). Yes, I am counting tomatoes harvested to get an idea of yield. The most tomatoes so far are a dozen or so, from varieties such as Iditarod Red, Dwarf Arctic Rose, Bundaberg Rumball, and Dwarf Pink Passion. Arctic Rose's yield is approaching 4 lbs of fruit from those dozen tomatoes.
Here are my counters and tables pre-processing.
Just some general data - the range of days to picking from transplant for eggplant is 41 (Skinny Twilight) to 65 (Rosa Bianca) days. We are just in mid July and only 10 days from the first harvest, and I've already picked at least 50 eggplant - and the 14th plant isn't bearing yet.
Of the 38 dwarf tomato plants in bales, I've harvested fruit from all but 9 plants - the days to maturity range is from 50 days (Dwarf Pink Passion) to 73 days (Dwarf Sweet Sue) - those with later DTM will be Sean's Yellow Dwarf, Chocolate Lightning, Chocolate Champion, Summer Sunrise and Sweet Adelaide (the rest of the 9 were planted a bit later). Yes, I am counting tomatoes harvested to get an idea of yield. The most tomatoes so far are a dozen or so, from varieties such as Iditarod Red, Dwarf Arctic Rose, Bundaberg Rumball, and Dwarf Pink Passion. Arctic Rose's yield is approaching 4 lbs of fruit from those dozen tomatoes.
Here are my counters and tables pre-processing.
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