My "little" tomato plot update Aug 5, 2011

[chris09]

Well here's a update on my tomatoes + other stuff in the garden.

When I last left you on 06/15/2011 5:51 pm I had just planted 99 tomatoes out in the garden.
Here is a picture of the tomatoes on 06/15/2011 when there tomatoes were 3 months old.

Here they are today almost a month later and plants are around 4 months old. Lots of little yellow blossoms please excuse the weeds that is on my list of things to do

Here is a picture of my Buckwheat.

Chris

 

[digitS']

OH, MY!

You have got some tomatoes in the works there, Chris!

The plants I set out had a few tiny green fruit on them. Those have begun to ripen! I have had about half a hand-full of cherries out of my patch!

What variety will be your first to ripen??

Steve

 

[chris09]

I planted Roma, Better Boy, Campbell and 1 cherry, I believe that the Roma's are going to be the first to harvest.
I hit them one time with 20-20-20 and that was right after I planted them. I think I am going to tie and weed them tomorrow then I may mulch them with some manure compost.
I have some small green tomatoes also but I thin that there is going to be more coming on this week, we just had a good rain today and there calling for more tomorrow.

Chris

 

[lesa]

That is a sea of tomatoes!! Holy cow, you are going to be making some sauce! I have a few little green ones...

 

[ninnymary]

Chris..do you like the staking method? Do you trim some branches and leave only a few? What do you do with all those tomatoes. 99 plants seem sooooo many. I only have 8 and that was pushing it.

Mary

 

[chris09]

That is a sea of tomatoes!! Holy cow, you are going to be making some sauce! I have a few little green ones...

Sauce, sauce and more sauce I hope.
We would like to put up enough sauce to last from harvest to harvest. I think we might do it this year.

Chris

 

[chris09]

Chris..do you like the staking method? Do you trim some branches and leave only a few? What do you do with all those tomatoes. 99 plants seem sooooo many. I only have 8 and that was pushing it.

Mary

Hi Mary,
I like to use "Cattle Panel" fencing better than staking.

Do you trim some branches and leave only a few?

I will trim some branches,suckers but not many.

What do you do with all those tomatoes

We (the wife and I ) do a lot of canning, we will make Spaghetti Sauce, Catchup, Salsa, Chilli Sauce and Whole Tomatoes. We also try to buy very little from the store so what we plant we will try to make it last till next harvest.

Chris

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

Chris, I've never seen buckwheat. Very cool looking plant! Not what I would have expected buckwheat to look like. Your plants look amazingly healthy and happy. Enjoy that harvest when you get to it!

 

[chris09]

Chris, I've never seen buckwheat. Very cool looking plant! Not what I would have expected buckwheat to look like. Your plants look amazingly healthy and happy. Enjoy that harvest when you get to it!

The Buckwheat is what fell from the bird feeder that I thought I would let grow.
Thank you you the kind words.

Chris

 

[lesa]

You have birdseed with buckwheat in it?? Do tell...