Fourth Graders rank heirloom tomatoes

The test results are in for the eight varieties of heirloom tomatoes grown at Waikiki School. All of the fourth grade students had the opportunity to rank each of the varieties based on marketability, appearance, and taste. The students used descriptive words to define the taste of the fruits and gave each variety a score. Here's what they found:

Perfect 10 for appearance:
Half moon china
Japanese black

Perfect 10 for taste:
Cherokee purple
Black cherry
Snow white
Japanese black


It was clearly a tough choice to pick an overall winner. However, once yield was included into the equation, four heirlooms stood out:

Cherokee purple
Half moon china
Japanese black
Black cherry

Check out these varieties and more from Tomato Bob.

Thank you Kaiser Families

Our Spring Garden Party/Work Day was a great success due to the enormous support provided by the friends and families of Kaiser Permanente Hawaii. Kaiser Hawaii was celebrating their 50th Anniversary and we were lucky to have them working hard beautifying our school and preparing our gardens for planting.