Micro Orange Hat & Venus Tomatoes

[campingcorgis]

Wow!  Beautiful as well as plentiful!  

[Sher]

It looks like the Orange Hat (front left) is gong to out produce the yellow Venus.

[Shawn]

I can not tell one from the other but you will have a lot of tomatoes

[gsaxon]

Have you ever grown two tomato plants in an AG Harvest before? Is there enough room to do this? I am guessing that you have to really prune the plants so that they don't get too tall and grow into the lights.

[Sher]

gsaxon , i can grow one of AG's heirloom tomatoes in a Harvest with careful pruning.

The Orange Hat and Venus tomatoes are micro minis fom Renaissance Farms. They are tiny plants. But two grow well in a Harvest. I have about 4" above the top of the plants and the fully extended light.

[Sher]

The orange hats are definitely out performing the Venus (right rear).

Maybe because the orange hats are pigging all the light.

[Sher]

I didn't realize the Orange Hats were ripe until one fell off into my hand today. I just gave them nutes yesterday, so I'm sure that affected the flavor. But it was bright, a little sweet and acidic. It tasted like a real tomato to me.

I think the vendor accidentally sent me two envelopes of orange Hat seeds instead of one Orange Hat and one Venus, because the two look exactly alike.

[campingcorgis]

Being ripe is a nice surprise!  How do you feel about having more of the same?  I'm imagining that if they are tasty, you're not too worried?  They look lovely!  

[Sher]

If we have too many to use fresh, I'll use them in cooking.

I don't feel like drying them with summer ahead. And you can use up a lot of tomatoes fast in cooking.

And we love tomatoes!

If they get too far ahead of us though, I'll break oit the dehydrator. But that's a slim possibility!

[Sher]

We ate all the red and yellow heirloom tomatoes we could, then dehydrated the rest before they started spoiling.

So today I picked the Orange Hats and Venus.

We will eat them in numerous ways. They have a nice shelf life, so we will probably eat all these fresh.

[campingcorgis]

I made BLT's the other day, the T being store-bought.  So, Mikey asked if he could have 8-10 of the AG cherry tomatoes to go with it!  Enjoy your tomatoes!  They are beautiful!

[Shawn]

They look so good and I am not a tomato person (except in sauces)

[Sher]

Thank you, campingcorgis and Shawn.

I was really tickled with the tomato taste. I eased off on the heavy nutrients I had been using, so they were sweeter, but still had a satisfying tomato taste.

I like the small varieties that I can grow in a Harvest and save the Bountys for bigger projects.