End of Season Summary =)

Here is the post-season wrap-up of the assorted tomatoes that graced our garden this year. I have separated out the mid-to-large-sized tomatoes from the cherry and pear varieties. We enjoyed twenty-four varieties in total.  

Not quite ripe Pork Chop Tomato

My personal favorites were the Pork Chop tomatoes with their sweet-but-tangy flavor and dazzling yellow-on-yellow striped skin. Those beauties made my heart flip every time I got to inspect them. <3 They are part of the 'wild barred boar' family and are not to be missed!

Over-ripe Pork Chop Tomato

When we stripped out the garden over a two-week period, we brought in a lot of green tomatoes. We've been able to identify and enjoy them as they ripen. Indeed, tearing out the garden was also an education on what was hiding in big clusters of overgrown plants. My own lack of actively tending the garden this year worked against me all summer. In the end, tearing out plants and harvesting what was left was rather like a gardener's Christmas. ;) 

Overall I am pretty pleased with the range of sizes we had. Even so, I am almost desperate for my ground cherries and spoon tomato plants to cooperate with me next year and broaden our experience even further. :)  

Red/orange/yellow slices ready for BLT's

TOMATOES

Kellogg's Breakfast 
Striped German
Pink Brandywine
Yellow Brandywine 
Dr. Wyche's Yellow
Climbing Trip-L Crop
Hillbilly Potato Leaf
Porkchop
Stump of the World
Chef's Choice Pink
Solar Flare
Nebraska Wedding
Golden Fang
Banana Legs
Dino Eggs

Cherry/Pear Varieties
Midnight Snack
Garnet
Gardner's Sweetheart
Flamingo Burst
Sunrise Bumblebee 
Little Birdy Rosey Finch
Little Birdy Yellow Canary
Siam
Indigo Pear

Seven of the nine types of these are pictured on a plate here. I did not have a LB Yellow Canary to show off, nor a Siam at the moment. We managed to save both Little Birdy plants, which are now growing indoors in one-gallon pots.