Tomatoes in Your Garden

[journey11]

I feel bad that I didn't start those you gave me this year, Major! 6 of the varieties I have this year were started by Ava. I just turned her loose on it. Never got around to starting any myself. The rest I bought. I have been gardening by the seat of my pants this year.

 

[majorcatfish]

@seedcorn been meaning to post this threw a san marzano over the fence a couple years ago and this is it's second year of volunteers.

tossed a over ripe brandywire mator out there just to see what will happen next year...

 

[Nyboy]

I once had a delivery of horse manure, it was a large pile. the side i wasn't taken from grew lots of tomato plants.

 

[majorcatfish]

I once had a delivery of horse manure, it was a large pile. the side i wasn't taken from grew lots of tomato plants.

well mator that.....

 

[Nyboy]

That pile had a lot of things in it ( stall sweepings). Taught me to ask if manure was screened not just aged.

 

[digitS']

This morning, I had more ripe tomatoes than I could carry in my hat or my shirt pocket, for a change.

Most are still golden cherries but Sweet Chelsea probably came in second . Yellow Jelly Bean continues to show up in good numbers and there are a few ripe Sweet 100's.

There was a miserable pink off a plant that will be providing beefsteaks at some point in time. ID'ing with a hidden tag wasn't easy and, I think unfair to the plant since it was, after all, it's first tomato.

A good-enuf yellow was ready! I'd hoped it was a de-hybrid Lemon Boy but, no, it was the real-deal, hybrid Lemon Boy.

The Bloody Butcher are covered with fruit and there have been several harvested. Right beside them is the regular leaf Bloody Butcher which, if anything, are even more covered with fruit! I'm hoping it's something special ... I don't really grow varieties I don't like, it's obviously the offspring of a cross, so it's bound to be good. That's simple logic, right ?

Just the difference in leaf type is something but I hope the fruit is different in some way. Of course, I may not know until 2017, or later. Imagining a pink or yellow Bloody Butcher ...

Oh, and Amy Sue still looks wonderful .

Steve
the quail ate most of a Goliath Original!

 

[ducks4you]

If you plant the tomatoes 3 inches above ground and hand work in preen you won't get anything else growing around them. MY tomatoes are in the beds that I keep adding compost (aged stall leavings from my horses) and there is very little weeding necessary, just crabgrass and about 3 different weeds. They pull out super easy. I think that my tomatoes will all be giant sized this year after this month's rain!!!

 

[dickiebird]

I had been getting most of my tomatoes from the plants on the back deck.
That all changed today, when I went to the garden it was an abundance of ripe tomatoes kinda like Steve said, too many for my hat and pockets.

THANX RICH

 

[so lucky]

My tomatoes had very few blooms early on, so very few tomatoes now. A moderate amount of blooms and small green tomatoes. What red ones I am getting, are small, some gnarly, many split with all the rain and steam baths. Foliage is sparse. You would think they were growing in fill dirt.
Peppers that were so abundant last year are barely producing, as well.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

My tomatoes had very few blooms early on, so very few tomatoes now. A moderate amount of blooms and small green tomatoes. What red ones I am getting, are small, some gnarly, many split with all the rain and steam baths. Foliage is sparse. You would think they were growing in fill dirt.
Peppers that were so abundant last year are barely producing, as well.

So weird how each year is different. My peppers are really producing, but tomatoes are nothing like last year. A few have dark green foliage, but most have very sparse foliage. Some look like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree with a couple tomatoes hanging. Very odd. I never had this problem before. I really think part of the problem is that I had put leaves and some compost that was not finished that had some rabbit bedding. Maybe just too much brown?