Welcome to the competition, Pam!

We have a new competitor in our 2010 Giant Tomato Contest. Pam Knudstad brought in to the courts her first entry for weigh-in yesterday. Carmel, whose tomato was leading the contest before this weigh-in assisted the Wednesday morning tennis group in measuring Pam’s tomato.

Pam’s tomato weighed 18.6 ounces, with a girth of 14 inches and now takes the lead in this contest. Her tomato is Brandy Wine heirloom grown from seed, from one of the six tomato plants in her garden.

Pam still has to prove she has a tomato garden and she promised to do this by showing the officials photos of it. Until then, this weigh-in result is provisional.

Carmel's Marianna's Peace at 17.2 Ounces!

Last Saturday was another tomato weigh-in at the club while I was playing a tennis league match at Vintage in Napa. Tina was the weigh-in coordinator, acting in my absence. The competing tomato was Carmel's Marianna's Peace. Katy took the measurements and Lisa weighed the tomato.

The official measurements were 17.2 ounces with a girth of 13-14 inches, beating Larry's fourth entry and taking the lead.

Carmel showed pictures of her tomato on the vine to Tina to satisfy contest rules.

Larry’s Fourth Entry, Type Delicious, Beats Mine at 16.4 Ounces

Last Friday morning, Aug 20, Larry brought in to the courts, two more of his tomatoes for official weigh-in. These were Larry’s third and fourth entries this year. They were both type "Delicious'. Bill and Rich performed the official measurements. The leading tomato before this weigh-in was my Delicious, weighing 16.3ounces.


The first of Larry's tomatoes weighed 16 ounces with a girth of 13 inches.

The second tomato weighed 16.4 ounces, with a girth of 13-3/8 inches and now leads the competition, beating mine by a miniscule 0.1 ounce!

The competition is heating up. Carmel is supposed to bring one Saturday for weigh-in. She claims it is bigger than Larry’s.

My Delicious Beats Larry's Delicious

Now it is my turn. I brought in my tomato (type Delicious, like Larry’s) for official weigh in on Saturday, Aug 7. Andrew did the measurements, after having consumed some of his soothing exotic drink spiked with vodka that everyone else enjoyed. As usual, there were several witnesses and not a single one questioned his measurement method. Good job Andrew!


My Delicious measured 16.3 oz with a girth of 13.5 inches, taking the lead (sorry Larry). I know this lead will be short lived. Before the season is over somebody else will come up with a bigger tomato. We have been doing this competition for seven years and I haven’t won yet.


Three years ago, I bought this Delicious tomato plant (along with Big Zac) on the Internet for this competition. Every year since then, I have been replanting from their seeds. Type Delicious holds the record for the heaviest tomato, weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces, recorded in 1986. OK, I am not shooting to break the record. All I want right now is to win the tomato trophy for once!

Larry’s Delicious Takes The Lead

Larry submitted three 'Delicious' type tomatoes for official weigh-in on Saturday, July 31st. They are all beautiful tomatoes, not like Carmel's entry two weeks before that only weighed 5 ounces because most of it got eaten up by some unkown creature in her garden.


Although has been participating in this competition for many years, this was the first time he actually submitted tomatoes for weigh-in.

Carol made the official measurements of Larry's tomatoes last Saturday, July 31st, while several SHIT players observed. The three tomatoes were measured for weight and girth, the biggest one measuring 11.6 ounces with a girth of 11 3/4 inches. This entry (type Delicious) beats Carmel's and is therefore in the lead for the time being. I am expecting many more entries before the season is over.


Congratulations, Larry!

Carmel Submits Her First 2010 Entry

On Saturday, July 17, we had our first weigh-in of the season for our Giant Tomato Contest this year. Carmel brought her tomato or what was left of it for the weigh-in, after it had been devoured by an unknown invader in her garden.

Louise C did the official measurements and photos. The tomato weighed 5.7 oz, with a girth of 10.25". It would have measured at least twice these if it were a whole tomato.

This ‘No Name’ variety, as Carmel was unable to provide a name for this fruit, now leads the contest being the first entry.

I have several competition tomatoes on the vine (they are still very green). So far I haven't had any varmint problems.

Kay has recently joined our Saturday morning tennis group and she will be asked to officiate future weigh-ins for this contest.

Welcome to the club, Kay and Lisa!