Hi, I am in the western Chicago suburbs and have been vegetable gardening for five years. I have a 2400 square foot vegetable garden at a community garden. I have 75 rare heirloom tomato plants, eggplants, peppers, corn, cabbages, asian vegetable, root veggies, squash, pumpkins, lettuce, spinach, and chard. This looks like a great place to be. LoreD
Hi LoreD, you are very welcome to our friendly community here at GardenStew. Make yourself at home and don't be afraid to jump right into the 'Stew' Thats quite a lot of vegetable experience you have there I would be very interested to hear about your heirloom tomatoes sometime Welcome again.
Hi Gnome, I would be very happy to talk about it. It's been a long road from a total newbie who had never grown anything until today (although I'm still learning). I grow all heirlooms from seed. I grow red, striped, green(ripe when green), orange, yellow, pink, black-purple, and white tomatoes. If it's weird, I grow it. When I first started my sister asked me if I was going to the trouble of growing from seed, why was I growing supermarket tomatoes. It kind of grew from that. I now give away 1200 tomato plants every spring at the school where I work. All from a potting table with grow lights in front of a window in my bedroom. I live in a condo. I love to come on the gardening forums because I would like to learn more from all of you. LoreD
Welcome from Scotland too LoreD. :-D I'd love to see photographs of all your different tomatoes. I'm growing yellow ones this year but certainly not on the scale you do as I only have 3 plants!!!! Still they're cropping really well and taste soooo much better than shop bought ones.
Welcome from the thumb of Michigan where my husband is lucky if he can keep a dozen everyday tomato plants growing and producing.
Hi there , Welcome to our world We have lots of fun and learn so much from each other. I plant tomatoes 3 at the time .I wait for them to have the first tomatoe ripen and I plant 3 more when they put on tomatoes I plant three more .That way I have tomatoes all summer long.I love to share with my friends.I also planted a plant of little yellow pear tomatoes the last time .I would love to see a picture also of all your different plants.
Eileen, I grew my first yellow 'maters last year and wow, what flavor. The only problem was that I got them from a friend who started a few hundred in her greenhouse and she has no idea the name/variety. So this year I bought a yellow plant at a local greenhouse - I hope it's half as good as last year's.
Thank you so much for the warm welcome. Everyone is so nice here. When my tomatoes turn color I would enjoy posting the pictures, which means I will give it to my daughter and have her figure out how to do it. LoreD
Welcome LoreD. Ummmm....I'm hungry after reading your post... You have some interesting veggies there.
