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This year was so bad for tomatoes that I got ONE chocolate cherry tomato. This is the same variety I ate barrels of last year, and this year I ended up with one. The original bush was snapped off about a foot from the dirt when the top-heavy top of it was weighed down with heavy rains and cold. The few tomatoes I was able to get matured so slowly that most of them rotted before they ripened, like the red currant tomatoes below. The result was a single viable Chocolate Cherry tomato — and it was good as I savored it raw.
The story was pretty much the same throughout. These are the Super Marzano Tomatoes that I tried for the first time this year. There was no damage to the plant, but this handful was all I got out of it in the end. It was the first one to start yellowing and croak with the unfavorable weather conditions — the green tomatoes just fell off the bush before they ever turned ripe.
This year, the pictures were truly misleading. I took a "rainbow of harvest" picture the other day. In previous years, this would have represented the type of harvest I would pull in 1-3 times a week. This year, it was all I could make out of months of work.
I guess there is always next year.
