We changed one of the greenhouses into a tomato house this spring. We cleaned it out and put rows in to plant tomatoes in them. We started this crop of tomatoes about the first of March. I am getting so ready for a fresh garden toamto...maybe even green fried tomatoes. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden )
Those are large tomatoes, and it looks as if they are beginning to ripen! Envy, envy, envy . . . . Our tomatoes are setting fruit, and we have little green bullets all the way up to green golf ball size, but nothing nearly as nice as yours!
Jane, these are Goliath tomatoes. we have had good fortune growing them so far. They are an early tomato, too. Everything else is small right now.
I am going to put the picture near my tomato plants so they know what to look like when they grow up. Picture perfect yummy tomatoes. Jerry
What's the difference between a greenhouse and growhouse? Is it that your tomatoes are planted in the ground instead of in containers?
Jerry, LOL! Cheryl, I called it the grow house since I am growing from beginning to end in it. In a greenhouse the plants can be moved from place to place or removed and sold, put in the garden, given away, etc. These are growing directly in the ground and I will harvest them and sell the tomato fruit when it is ripe (or eat the very first one). I have a few egg plants and a couple peppers in here, too, but that hasn't been the most successful venture. The pillbugs/sowbugs keep eating the smaller plants .
I am drooling Carolyn, I just can't wait to sink my teeth into a home grown tomato!! It's gonna be a while though, just planting them out this weekend
We haven't planted any of ours out yet, but I think I will today. We laid all the plastic last night and I should be able to get them in now. The weather sounds more doable than last weekend . You probably had the same cold snap we had. I just uncovered the outside strawberries yesterday. Thankfully they look good. the only damage was outside the rowcover where the cover wasn't wide enough.
Philip, get crackin'. Time to get to work. I hope your weather is suitable, too. Hard to plant in the cold and rain.
