Lovely French Breakfast radishes & sungold cherry tomatoes
Lots of cracks after heavy rains.
Nice and bushy now :)
Purple spotted leaves have appeared on all the plants.
Some weird disease that afflicts a couple of my plants every year...
As you can see, the tomatoes I'm growing this year (Red and Green Zebra heirloom tomatoes) are very susceptible to cracks and scarring - nearly every single tomato I've picked is cracked. It's been raining a lot which doesn't help.
Honestly though I don't care because they taste so damn good. Like a million times better than those hard Publix tomatoes that are "ripened" with gas and taste pretty bland. These are juicy and meaty and sweet.
Since I've been harvesting roughly 10 tomatoes every few days, and we can't keep up with eating them at that rate, I simply cut around the cracks and scars to prevent mold from growing and store them in a glass container in the fridge. Whatever is not eaten within 1 weeks time I'll turn into a sauce and freeze.
Also, after lots of delaying, I finally purchased a pressure sprayer. Before I was using those horrible spray bottles from home depot at $3 a piece. One broke after using it twice. And trust me when I say your hand will hurt after spraying 10 plants with it. I literally stopped spraying my plants since the spray bottles were such a pain in the ass.
I used the pressure sprayer for the first time today and it was AWESOME. Finally sprayed the plants with an organic copper fungicide and next time the plants are overrun with caterpillars I've got BT on hand.
