and then there were 11

It's so hard to resist buying more heirloom tomato plants at the farmer's market. As there are thousands of varieties of heirlooms and hybrids, it's impossible to grow them all, but the collecting nature in us ("humans" us, not "alyson and steve" us) makes us keep buying them.

So without further ado, our new tomatoes are:

Red Currant (tiny tomatoes the size of english peas!!!!)
Black Cherry (evil russian's little brother)

Gardening is eerily satisfiying!!

I hope these are our last 2 tomato plants, but we still don't have any paste or sauce tomatoes...

9 Tomato plants and counting

There are so many varieties of heirloom tomatoes, it's hard not to buy more when a new one sounds good. Alyson and I started out with only a few, but it has ballooned to 9, and that's it.... unless we find another cool one.

Here's the list of tomatoes. Each may get its own myspace page as well...

Stupice (already has tomatoes growing, but they don't look like stupice tomatoes)
Brandywine (traditionally my favorite heirloom)
Brandywine (Sudduth's strain) (supposed to be an even better version!)
Pink Caspian (noble russian tomato)
Aunt Ruby's German Green (she'll make you eat your streudel)
Sun Gold (roasted sun gold tomato sauce is delicious)
Red Grape (we'll throw these at our neighbors)
Black Krim (evil russian tomato)
Indian Moon (my dream-tomato!)

I think if we had planned it out, we would have gotten more smaller tomatoes. As it is, we ended up with alot of larger slicing tomatoes, but there are just so many kinds of tomatoes! We have to draw the line somewhere!

Quick thought

During my commute to work, sometimes the Bart makes special announcements that everyone should hear such as delays or other problems with service. For those of us who listen to ipods, there is not enough warning to pause the track or take off the headphones before the announcement is over. Even though it probably isn't feasable, I would really love it if the announcer could pause ipods with a signal of some sort before the announcement was made (similar to an airplane while watching their movies or listening to their music)

Ah, wishful thinking...