Cat faced tomatoes and peppers
7 years ago
I was really busy this weekend and we had our first few frosts. I entered my garden with some trepidation to deal with the wreckage. Luckily the damage is minimal. I did a major harvest of tomatoes and peppers.
Pineapple is one of my favorite varieties of tomatoes for flavor but it throws some very strange looking fruits.
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Comments (2)Congratulations! The tobacco/tomato hornworms get SO big! I found a real big one on one of my pepper plants this morning, so I put it (and the leaf it was on) in a water pick and put it in a reptarium/butterfly cage. It ate all that leaf plus two more, then stopped, so I think it's about ready to pupate. I put some clean, dry dirt about 3" deep in an old terrarium, then stuck the water pick the cat is on into the dirt. I'd really like to see a newly emerged Carolina sphinx moth! Is yours a tobacco hornmworm or an actual tomato hornworm? MissSherry...See Morecat chewed tomato plant
Comments (8)Okiebaker, My chewed plants usually rebound and come back from the roots. The only problem with that is that sometimes by the time they come back and get large enough to bloom and set fruit, the heat has arrived and is impairing pollination. So, I think only you can decide if you want to leave it and let it rebound or not or just replace it with something else that is more of a sure thing. However, with lots of rain in the forecast this week, I think I'd leave it and give it a chance. With decent temperatures in May and nice rainfall to fuel its regrowth, it might rebound quickly. Since I'm down here in southern OK, I can't advise you on the availability of any given tomato variety in the OKC area, but hopefully someone who lives in the OKC-Norman area can do so if they've seen those plants around. I do know that in past years, I've seen a pretty good selection of heirlooms at the OKC Farmer's Market. If you're going to be in the Tulsa area for any reason, you might check out the plant selection from Duck Creek Farms (Gary sells at the Farmer's Market and his plant list is mostly on his website, but he may have additional varieties available that aren't on the list....Gary does respond to emails) or from The Tomato Man's Daughter. You can google and find their websites. Even if they don't have replacements of the exact varieties you want, both have an amazing variety of heirloom tomatoes. I have cats and they don't often nip tomato plants, but they like to behead pepper plants. Are your tomato plants caged? If so, you might want to wrap the lower foot or two of the cage with chicken wire to exclude them. I love cats but they have moments when they do behave poorly. For what it is worth if you raise your own plants from seed, it is always a good idea to have a couple of extra ones of each variety (OK, maybe not to the extreme like me) held in very large paper cups as 'back-ups'. I hold mine as long as possible so I have them in case 'something' happens. Many a time, the backups have saved me from going without a favorite variety or two. Good luck, Dawn...See MoreCat Face
Comments (6)thisisme: I have never had a significant "Catfacing" problem with a round tomato. But some beefsteak or severely oblate tomatoes seem to "catface" no matter the weather, or how they are grown. I have quit growing some varieties because they always do, and are not exceptionally outstanding, but have grown a few for years that are always lumpy, but taste so good I am willing to chop them up rather than slicing them, just because they taste so good....See MoreTomato deformity, not cat-facing
Comments (7)Nope, they are not deformed -- they look a lot like Opalkas or perhaps Polish Linguisa or something along those lines. If so, lucky you! They're very tasty tomatoes. Yeah, they are a little weird when you first see them because they don't look like traditional tomatoes. Not what you expect to see. Do you still have the ID tag for them or remember the name of the tomato? I think you will enjoy them once you get by their appearance. Congratulations!...See More- 7 years ago
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We had four nights in the lower thirties while we were doing a fair. I had to leave at 6 AM and getting home at 8 PM. (Btw I must congratulate my sweet dog Joe’s bladder and excellent self control) So I did minimal plant protection.
Now thankfully I have a week or more of nights in the 40s and 50s forecast to deal harvesting.
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Interesting enough, I see our local urban farm is promoting cat-faced tomatoes. The graphic on their home page:
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