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Hi My name is Kirsten Segler from the Greenery
and we just want to recap with you on what we did here with
the tomato trial this year. We do sell about a hundred and fifty varieties of tomatoes.
We've chosen about
forty different ones this season
and we planted them up and then obviously grown them
and let them ripen and done a little bit of a trial between the different types. So this
end we have different types of
Grape Tomatoes and Cherry Tomatoes,
obviously in yellow, orange, gold
white,
indigo
cherry
and
it's just a good way of that seeing how different varieties grow
and how they
produce, how large the clusters, crack-resistance in all these different types
of things...helps us
answer some questions
for you later on in the season.
As we move along here again,
lots of different colors
and shapes.
Nice, large
almost a grape
style here, one of our favorites, Juliet.
Again a nice,
thick body to it.
So very good against a
sun scald.
And here we're moving along now. We're getting into some of the
beefsteak type.
Since we only had forty spots in this garden to trial from,
we narrowed the larger tomato family down to the beefsteak type this year so most ones in
this display are all a larger
beeksteak type.
On this selection we chose this year still again one of our favorites was
the variety called Whopper.
It's just
unbelievable
in...
not too big, medium sized, not really any cracks, nice and smooth and the
yield is just phenomenal.
So some of the varieties of Cherry Tomatoes we managed to get to the average of
eight to ten feet high.
You can see here the upper fruit is still green
but
providing there's still enough sunlight and warmth, we should still be able to get these to ripen.
But what we've done here is we've actually cut the top of the tomato plant off
at a certain
point where you know the tomatoes above that are going to ripen in time.
And also what you are doing is you're putting all that energy into
ripening the tomatoes and no longer growing the main leaf
so that's something
we did about a week ago
just to get them to their final height and allow all the energy to ripen the last green fruit here.
The next thing we're going to do here is highlight a few of our favorite varieties in yield and
crack-resistance.
Both the Grape and Cherry type tomatoes.
The first couple here
we're going to look at would be some
orange varieties.
These here
are both very similar. In fact the average person wouldn't be able to tell the
difference.
This variety here, Sweet Orange,
still our
favoite orange tomato for sweetness and so forth. Pretty good yield,
not bad for crack-resistance. I mean there's one little crack there on that one but
overall
a
very nice tomato.
The
Sun Gold,
quite similar, a little bit darker in color but we find that the
Sweet Orange here is still sweeter.
The next two varieties we're going to talk about in the Cherry Tomato family.
One of them is Sweet Baby Girl.
Beautiful, nice,
no splits,
very sweet
and still one of our all-time favorites for yield and so forth.
This one over here I'll pick
a piece of...look at that,
that is just amazing. That is Sweet Million.
I think everyone's heard about it but still one of our top sellers and now
you know why.
I mean these just grow up,
we're harvested a bunch already
but as you see the clusters, just growing up
it's huge...and again not one
split tomato.
It's absolutely beautiful. Excellent.
Next we'll talk about a couple large cherry tomatoes. This first one here
is Sweet Chelsea.
So you can see the size of tomato
is
definitely larger than your typical little cherry tomatoes
like the Sweet Million we were talking about
And another variety and very similar to that
is actually called Red Cherry Large
Off the end aren't quite right here
but anyways we'll pick that off.
So very similar in size and shape, no splits,
a little bit of a green shoulder on the Red Cherry Large you noticed
So
you know, that sometimes can be a little tough in that area but
all in all
no complaints on any of these varieties if you like a cherry tomato that's a bit
larger.
They're both
excellent choices.
Next we're going to show you a couple
grape type cherry tomatoes so they're grape-shaped.
This one here the
Napa Grape
We'll bring that over to our platform but
it's a nice, little cluster there.
This one here is actually sold just as
a generic term Grape Tomato.
So no fancy name to it.
We've always been happy with this in production.
A few splits here on this
but all in all
still
one of our best selling and favorite
grape type cherry tomatoes.
Third grape type tomato, it's a little one called Cupid.
We just
pick the little cluster there but again,
really nice form,
no splits, on this variety as of yet.
Going back to the splits, I mean there's nothing wrong with cherry tomatoes having a
few splits. If you get at them right away, they're not going to
rot or anything like that.
No big deal,
They're still fine to eat obviously.
Another thing we've been doing is using a fruit dehydrator and
drying them like a raisin.
And very sweet, great little snack...
we've got a little
amount here that we've done.
So you know, for those tomatoes that have gone a little bit left on the vine, maybe
a little bit too long, they've split but they're still in
decent shape. Just stick them in a fruit dryer or we've even used a
toaster oven. Just put some foil in there,
lay them out on the foil
dehydrate them there and
here you go...a great little snack for the kids. A healthy snack
and believe it or not almost as sweet as a raisin.
Just a remarkable, healthy snack.
There are few other varieties we want to talk about when it comes to
tomatoes. We've got a
variety here called Sweet Seedless and we do get some interesting people looking
for a seedless tomato.
So this variety is fairly new on the market.
It's our second or third year carrying it.
We can see here if it
truly is. Look at that.
Now the variety that is one of my favorites,
it's quite unique and it's a large
grape tomato one thing I really like about this variety is that it never
gets heat scald.
Sometimes
like this you for example in August when we have these really hot days
and cherry tomatoes or
even regular beefsteak are out there exposed to the sun,
they could kind of have an orangy haze on them
and it's
actually almost like overheating the juices that are inside the tomato so
this variety here
is that what i call a Thick Walled Tomato, not thick-skinned, the skin isn't
tough whatsoever but the wall of the tomato
is nice and thick for a grape or cherry type tomato. Usually cherry tomatoes
it's really just the skin and then the juices are right next to the skin
but this variety has a nice, thick wall
and it never had issues with this one getting
heat scald and the flavor is just remarkable as well.
Really nice,
larger grape type tomato and it's called Juliet.
But no matter what
there should be some kind of cherry tomato, grape tomato that will suit your
bill. We've got many different varieties. We just showed you
the tip of the iceberg.
There's a few more here on the table or bench
that are quite unique or
popular if you will.
This one here, Black Cherry,
this is called White Cherry
this is
Sun Sugar,
and this is Lemon Cerry
and this one,
fairly new,
unbelievable...
look how dark these are...
called Indigo Rose. So they're dark indigo with a rose
bottom on them. That's how you can tell when they're ripe.
When they're still unripe
you still got a very dark burgundy top to it but the bottom will still be a
little bit green. So these are new to us,
our first year kind of growing them and then judging them.
Very curious to see
what they look like inside so
we'll just...
here you go. So it looks, mainly the skin is a real
dark, dark indigo color and then the flesh is more of a rose.