Its been a bad summer for tomatoes. Temperatures have been cool and lots of rain and morning fog resulting in lots of leaf, no ripening and now fungal problems including black spot. Probably not a good year for evaluating varieties, however, I’m not very impressed with Roman Golden Wave. The tomatoes are small, grape-like and soft and mushey. They don’t seem to color much more than a yellow green. The shape of the fruit is attractive. It has a kind of teardrop shape with a sharp point at the end.<\/p>\n
The plants in the greenhouse look the best. They’ve had to endure some incredibly hot daytime temps over 110 degrees but atleast they haven’t had the constant moisture. The Italian Heirloom has had some large, beautiful tomatoes. I’ve harvested five or six so far and they are very tasty, although a bit softer than I remembered from before. It took them a while to ripen, perhaps they are too ripe now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Its been a bad summer for tomatoes. Temperatures have been cool and lots of rain and morning fog resulting in lots of leaf, no ripening and now fungal problems including black spot. Probably not a good year for evaluating varieties, however, I’m not very impressed with Roman Golden Wave. The tomatoes are small, grape-like and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}