We harvested the first two Sun Gold tomatoes on Thursday the 18th. Is that “late” or “early” or “neither”?
Fortunately we have a non-memory dependent answer. We’ve been keeping a spreadsheet of the harvests since we started gardening in 2013. Here’s what it says:
| Year | First Sun Gold Date |
| 2013 | July 7 |
| 2014 | August 3 |
| 2015 | July 17 |
| 2016 | August 3 |
| 2017 | July 20 |
| 2018 | July 28 |
| 2019 | July 18 |
| Average | July 22 |
As it turns out July 18 is almost right on the average first date for Sun Golds.
What is late is the Tromboncino. Most years we would have already harvested a few. As of right now there is one fruit of any size on the vines and none have been harvested.
The Fortex beans are rocking though — over three days and two harvests we pulled almost a pound off of the plants:
July 18:
July 20:
Today will be a day to start “cleaning up” the bottoms of the tomato plants. At least that way we’ll be able to see new fruit easily.
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