My Beef master grows deformed tomatoes. Applestar calls it fused blossoms. Subject: viewtopic.php?p=428584#p428584SQWIB wrote:Wow, I'm tired just reading everything you have been doing, very impressive.
Love to see what folks are doing with their produce.
You mentioned you would never grow Beefmaster again, if you don't mind me asking, why not?
The whole center of the tomato is green & white about 50% of the tomato is trash. Often tomato has 2 halves and sometimes 3, 4 and 5 sections. Some sections get ripe a week sooner than the rest and rots before the other part of the tomato is ripe. Often only 10% of the tomato can be saved. This averages out to about 10% to 50% good it is more trouble than it is worth to save 10% of a tomato. Beef master tomato has a very good flavor equal to Big Beef I will slice off a piece or 2 if it is worth saving then throw the rest away. Beef master is a low producer compared to Big Beef it produces about 75% less tomatoes but take into account the bad sections of a Beef Master is produces 90% less than Big Beef. These tomato plants are wasted space in my garden.
My Blackberry wine is ready to finish but I got out of the wine making mood and been ignoring it. I need to siphon off 5 gallons of wine leaving that 1/2 gallon of sediment in the bottom of the jug. No hurry it can wait. Soon it will be 28 bottles of Blackberry Cabernet Sauvignon wine 11.5% alcohol.