Tomatoes 2025

[SPedigrees]

I started my riesentraube heirloom cherry tomatoes last week in tiny pots in this indoor grow kit, and they have sprouted! As I'm still wanting to keep my crop of salad greens (at left in pic) going a bit longer, I have the tomatoes on the "day shift" under the lights, and the salad greens on the "night shift."

It has been cold and rainy here, so under artificial light is the only way to start tomatoes right now. As they get bigger, and days get hopefully warmer, I will move them to the back enclosed porch with some outdoor time as well. By the first of June tomatoes will hopefully be in the ground. Plants sprouting from seed never gets old. I love the fuzzy little stems on tomato plants!

 

[digitS']

I love the fuzzy little stems on tomato plants!

The fragrance of the plants —

It means Spring to me .

Steve

 

[Branching Out]

This Alenka tomato was hidden in the foliage-- what a find! It should be ready to eat in a few more days.

 

[heirloomgal]

This Alenka tomato was hidden in the foliage-- what a find! It should be ready to eat in a few more days.

I'm growing Alenka this year too, but I don't think mine has even flowered yet!

 

[Branching Out]

I'm growing Alenka this year too, but I don't think mine has even flowered yet!

My tomato plants are 7 months old already. Lol. I started a whole bunch of that cultivar in late November because I needed seedlings for a workshop that I did in late January, and then I held on to the ones that were left over after the event. The plants were kept in small pots for far too long, but it didn't seem to phase them. Once they finally got moved to large containers about a month ago they settled right in. Alenka seems to have a somewhat cascading habit that's well suited to the tall pots that they're growing in. Pictured at far left is a Geranium Kiss tomato, with a strong upright habit. Annapolis Seeds describes that one as 'a sturdy stalk topped with a crown of flowers.'

 

[SPedigrees]

My tomatoes are loving the sunny weather we've *finally* been enjoying. The bee hive shaped thingie above them is a solar lantern, given to me by the same relative who gifted me with the indoor grow-kit nursery where these tomatoes were "born."

When the tomato plants grow high enough to interfere with the lantern, lantern will be removed to a nearby shepherds hook. (The hubcap below the lantern, same vintage as our first car, a dodge dart from long ago, is an ornament bought on ebay for nostalgia's sake.)

My beets are also beginning to look like plants. I hope to have beets to pickle later on, but my track record with growing underground vegies is sketchy at best

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