They are Beefsteak and Black Krim, or at least I think they are. The Beefsteaks are smaller than I thought they should be. The Black Krims are from a plant that I had labeled Green Zebra, but yesterday I found these dark red/purple tomatoes. I am not too sad about it. They are tasty.
I have one more plant labeled Green Zebra. I hope I got that one right. I do like Green Zebras.
We also got our first Sun Gold cherry tomatoes yesterday. They were sweet but not overly sweet, and they were really flavorful. They tasted more than just tomatoes. Two weren't enough to give a good description of these yummy fruits.
Now, for the bad news. The tomato plants are not short of problems this year, especially the three plants I transplanted out the earliest (you can see them here and here). It could be the cooky weather earlier this season, or it could be their location. They are shaded by the persimmon trees in the afternoon, so they get a bit less sunlight than the other tomato plants.
The leaves are showing signs of blight. It's unusual for me to get blight at this time of the year. It's not too terrible yet, and the stems and fruits are not affected. Since the temperature has kicked up a notch, I just cut off the infected leaves for now.
Tomato hornworms were never big problems for me and I never had to hand-pick them... until this season. I get really grossed out by worms, but they have done enough offense for me to get up the courage to look for and remove them. They chew up the leaves pretty badly, and they leave their "compliments to the gardener" on the leaves. I know worm poops are good in the soil. I don't know if they work the same on leaves.
***If you get offended by worms, stop reading here. If you are interested in seeing the offender in action, feel free to look at the next picture.***
They also ate some of the unripe fruits. They usually go for the smaller fruits, but I caught this one on a big Aunt Ruby's German Green that was just waiting to ripe. URGH!! That really gets me!
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