Three weeks ago I found two perfect, ripe grape tomatoes on one of my vines. Since then, nothing. Just now I found two more that are yellowing up, so they'll be ready in a couple of days if the weather holds. My friends keep asking when I'm going to start flooding them with tomatoes and I keep saying "I wish I could!"
I have four variants on cherry tomatoes and one that looks like it might be a Pink Russian. I started a dozen plants, 2 each of six different types, then I lost my diagram and since I didn't use pot labels...Well, what I actually have is anybody's guess.
But the tomatoes are coming!
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This is the first year I haven't started tomatoes from seeds in a long time. I have a cherry that is producing sporadically. I don't have enough sun for a real veggie patch, so I just grow a few in pots. Do you have a lot of green ones? When it gets real hot, mine stop producing.
I'm looking forward to a really good tomato sandwich! MMM!
This is the first year in a long time that DH didn't plant a garden. We usually have lots and lots of tomatoes. I know I'm going to really miss them this year. It will be great motivation to have them again next year.
I only put in 4 plants about 3 weeks ago. There are 2 "sweet 100's" which produce small tomatoes on grape-like stems on a full size plant, 1 "regular" red tomato plant, and one plant that will produce yellow tomatoes. I was away for a week, arrived home today, and the plants are looking good. It will take another 4 to 6 weeks to start getting tomatoes to eat. The plants are just starting to flower now.
I love summer and getting goodies out of the garden ! (smile)
Hmmm, I love tomatoes of all sorts. But growing my own veggies doesn't fit into my apartment life-style. Instead I get them from the farmers market and friends who have too much. I bought my first locally-grown tomatoes Saturday before last.
On 26 Jun 2006 18:50:57 -0700, "hesira" spewed forth :
All four of the (putative) cherry tomatoes are covered with fruit. The one that might be a Pink Russian is still blossoming but I don't think it's setting fruit right now; it does have five fruits on it but none seem ready to pick.
I ordered my seeds from an heirloom seed conservation organization with an eye to heat-resistant varieties. I've had several 100F days since my tomatoes started blossoming, so far they don't seem terribly bothered by the heat. I have several square yards of shadecloth, I need to get off my a$$ and build a PVC hoop house so I can shade the plants somewhat as the summer progresses. In the past (well, when I lived in Illinois) I was able to have fall tomatoes by keeping the plants *alive* through the summer heat.
I have had to water more frequently because of the heat (2" per week equivalent). That irks me a bit because I've made a concerted zero-scape effort since we moved into the house. If it rains by June
20th (which it has this year, we've got 1.75" in the gauge for the month) I can usually get away with not watering until mid-August.
Even tho I lined the downhill side of the plot with plastic and built a berm to keep my soil in place enough excess water is getting out to keep the weeds happy.
To clarify: I planted two each of six different varieties (3 types of cherry, one "slicer" type and two beefsteak types). I lost my planting diagram and 7 of the starts. I ended up with four cherry types and one "other"; the "other" might be a Russian Pink, or it might not. Time will tell :D
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Tomatoes are their own art form. My grandmother lived in Kansas, and thought that if you could get tomatoes by the Forth of July, then you were a great gardener (and very likely putting altogether too much effort into growing tomatoes.)
The real problem with tomatoes is that if you plant enough tomatoes to get as many tomatoes as you think you want, then you are very likely to get alot more tomatoes than you want to eat. That is, if you had planted a dozen vines of each, each vine would be putting out kettle fulls per day by now.
Thus, the Prime Directive for tomatoes is: "Plant more, eat what you can, can what you can't, then give the rest away."
Plants of all sorts are not my thing, but DH has three tomato plants in a huge pot in the backyard. We have had a handful of cherry tomatoes and one from what he calls a patio tomato. The beefsteak-type tomato plant is not doing well. The other two (cherry and patio) both have fruit ripening. Looks like we might have hamburgers some time next week!
DH also planted a few jalapeno pepper plants in another huge pot. They do not appear to be growing although one had a bloom on it the other day.
I am allowed to water the plants when he is out of town on business, but otherwise I am told to keep my distance.
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:42:32 -0500, "BonnieBlue" spewed forth :
My one cayenne pepper looked quite sickly until the temps got into the
90s during the day. Now something has decided to EAT the peppers: each one has a big round spot gnawed through to the pulp. Whatever the culprit may be also sampled the beans early in the season but doesn't seem to like tomatoes.
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I have strawberries and jalapenos , funny combo but that is what I can grow. Each time I try tomatoes they rot while on the vine before the ripen , don't know what I do wrong.
Coggie, by rot do you mean that black rot on the bottom of the tomato? If so, I have the name of a product for you - it worked for me and I always use it when I'm planting. Let me know.
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