Banana Legs, Ananas Noir and Pink Boar: Char and Marv's tomato roll call
The tomato harvest named eighteen varieties, from micro dwarfs to a Russian Buratino, and its comments went straight to salsa and the seeds.
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Grow these tomato crazy tomato varieties
Eighteen tomato varieties are listed under "Grow these tomato crazy tomato varieties," and the names alone make a garden worth visiting: Orange Accordion, Banana Legs, Ananas Noir, Barry's Crazy Cherry, Pink Boar. Some are full-size heirlooms, others are dwarf and micro dwarf plants such as Rosy Finch and Red Robin, the kind that will fruit in a pot. It was the week's most watched of Char and Marv's three uploads, close to 60,000 views five days in.
The comments read like a kitchen table. Several viewers want the salsa recipe, one asks which variety the purple pepper was, and the most liked reply admires the seeds themselves and plans a plate with nothing more than good olive oil and flaky salt.
The other two uploads lean into what the couple's about page promises: grow, eat, live simply. "We removed almost all our lawn to grow our own food instead" looks back on twenty years of gardening, from small backyard experiments to harvests big enough to share every week, with upo, cucamelons and onions along the way. Its advice is modest: one pot, one plant, one meal. A few hours old as the week closed, a shorter piece about doing what you love for a few minutes a day walks past cabbages, carrots and Swiss chard.
The video with the most momentum is older and sponsored, a twelve-day-old harvest of beans, eggplant and kabocha squash that ends with pinakbet, the Filipino vegetable stew, cooked for the family.
The channel ran a little below its usual daily pace and added about a thousand subscribers, which leaves it just short of a million. Among the outdoors and homesteading channels nearest its size, it sat fourth for views gained, while Tackle2thePeople and thruhikers had the big weeks.
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What viewers say
I love the seeds! It’s tomato caviar. All I’d need with that harvest is my best olive oil and some Maldon salt. 🙂
@Miranda-c6qSee it on YouTubeOh you should share your salsa recipe! Nice harvest! 😊
@pollylutz8531See it on YouTubei could eat tomatoes all day they're so delicious. i feel lucky to live in a world that has ... tomatoes..
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Upo, grown in Char and Marv's lawn-free garden, is also known in English by which name?
Upo is the Filipino name for Lagenaria siceraria, the bottle gourd, whose young fruits are cooked as a vegetable.
