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July 21st, 2009 | Author: Dot

Removing the Protective Netting from the Todd Amish County Beefsteak Tomato

Removing the Protective Netting from the Todd Amish County Heirloom Beefsteak Tomato

Dot’s Thot: I’ll let the pictures tell most of the harvest day story when I had to use both hands to hold the largest tomato of the day.

Journal Entry: 10 July 09 — Largest Tomato of the Day — Todd County Amish Beefsteak Heirloom Tomato

This is an indeterminate tomato (I), which means the tomato plant does not have a limited growing height, but keeps growing longer or taller during the growing season. Determinate tomatoes are restricted in size and stop growing after after a while. Some of the Todd County Amish Beefsteak heirloom tomato characteristics are the large size, rich, yet sweet fruit that are meaty and plentiful. It is considered a wonderful heirloom tomato and yields 1 to 2 pound pink tomatoes. This tomato will be set on the windowsill to ripen to a deeper rosy pink before eating.

The tomato plant itself is a potato leaf variety of tomato and this is the first year of planting this tomato for me. I did not find one of my favorite tomatoes, the Amish Paste Tomato, so decided to take this one instead, simply based on the fact that it was another Amish tomato. It looks like a winner.

Aloha, DoT

Top View of the Two-Hander Todd Amish County Beefsteak Tomato Harvested on 7 July 20090

Todd County Amish Beefsteak Tomato Fills Two Hands

Note: We netted the larger, riper tomatoes, since some critters took bites out of some tomatoes. It’s either some bird or some nocturnal critter, maybe a possom? We then went and netted the whole row with bird netting as well. Worried aboutt hindering pollination, we might remove the bird netting and take my chances….