How are Things in the Tomato Patch?

[hypnofrogstevie]

They are 5 gallon containers. Will get a pic of them tomorrow. I dont know the variety since the tags got mixed up.

 

[ducks4you]

BIg, Beautiful, but still very green leaves and very green fruit. BUT, my composting has keep everything from drying out during out heat wave and mini-drought, were the ground with grass is cracking.

 

[wifezilla]

Yeah..the areas I used partially composted duck bedding are staying nice and plush. I just spread more on some bare patches yesterday.

I have a LOT of green maters and some starting to turn. We have harvested some and let them ripen in the kitchen. The only problem I have now it the plants are so big and so dense I have taken to hunting ripe tomatoes at night with a flash light. The contrast of the ripening tomato stands out much better this way. That's a good sign, right?

 

[ducks4you]

I have now it the plants are so big and so dense I have taken to hunting ripe tomatoes at night with a flash light. The contrast of the ripening tomato stands out much better this way. That's a good sign, right?

What do you wear when you hunt?

 

[ducks4you]

On last week's Illinois Gardener they talked about the 2009 winner of their tomato tasting. Out of 90 varieties, the favorite was "garden peach"--see here~
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Apparently the tasters hesitated to bite into them because these tomatoes have a little fuzz on them, like a peach. Has anybody here grown these?

 

[desertwillow]

You're all so lucky you have those tomatoes. Mine just didn't do much this year. The cherry tomatoes are all right, it's the full size that haven't done well. We had such a crazy spring this year with late frosts and then suddenly turned hot. My soil might bot be quite right either. It's hard to grow things in the desert and only can if you amend the soil. Zucchini and summer squash and butternut are doing very well. We planted more carrots, beets, turnip and green beans and they're coming up. This is the first year for us to have a second crop. Might work as our first frosts don't usually come until mid Oct. and there should be enough light.

 

[vfem]

I picked about 10 tomatoes today, I had to throw 3 to the chickens are they were being devoured by caterpillars and nasty little stink bugs. What I have noticed though, is the bugs seem to go for the mushy fruits, the ones the other bugs already started on. So while 7 of my tomatoes were fine, the other 3 were covered in many bugs rather then 1 each. You know?

Anyways, other then that.... just about all my tomatoes are cracking!

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

I found 2 tomato tags. These are what we have planted

La roma III and "Big Boy". The Big Boy's are great slicers. Nothing on the La roma III

 

[wifezilla]

What do you wear when you hunt?

 

[wifezilla]

desertwillow, it sounds like we have a similar climate. This is the first year I have gotten a descent tomato crop in decades. The secret is putting crushed oyster shell in the hole when you plant. Also bury them DEEP. I had to use a post hole digger to get mine planted