Well, this week is the first full week of picking tomatoes up here, which is really late for our season. We have had COLD nights for weeks. Last Friday night was 45f. overnight. Dang, was that cold. So, this week has been much warmer at night and I have picked 8 bushels of tomatoes so far, Which translates into 400 pounds, or so. I never even made it out to my moms to check her garden for anything harvestable for the market. I planted that for them this Spring since they weren't able to get it in themselves. I told them to use or give anything away they wanted and I would take the rest. Well, every week I seem to not be able to get out there to harvest. I sure hope it all gets used.
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Goodness gracious me! Way to go, C. It looks like the growing rules have been changed by the referee (Mother Nature). That said, you seem to be coping quite well. I hope that you can sell them all at the market. Are you going for "Tomato Queen 2014"?
I only have one plant and the 2 of us can't keep up with it. I have a dozen setting on the back porch and there must be 20 more ready to be picked.
S, I have two markets today. We will get rid of as many as we can, which I don't think will be a problem. There is a terrible blight going on here and many people have lost their toms for the season. sad, sad, sad. We kept spraying and spraying, which is not what I want todo, but it seems to be the only way to get a crop. We have had cool to cold nights almost all summer. Capt, I have about 200 tomato plants in the garden. 6 of them are cherry toms, about 12 are heirlooms, 2 I have already pulled since they are dead from the blight, about 12 paste tomatoes and the rest are slicers. And the dwarf project for another group in a greenhouse and 40 assorted varieties in another greenhouse. I walk many steps in a day around here. CM, yep!
That's amazing! We have had the same kind of weather conditions here and the tomatoes just weren't ripening. 3 days of nice warm sun and now I am picking like crazy! I only have 48 plants, so I don't have 400 pounds, but we have LOTS! Looks like I'm spending tomorrow canning some
So Carolyn, your tomato crop is pretty good? With 400 lbs. and more coming, I think there is going to be a shortage of canning lids in a certain section of Ohio. How does Adrian feel about doing a stint in the kitchen?
Picked 20 more mater this morning and froze 2 qts. Still have about 100 more on the vine in different stage of ripeness. Anywhere from green to dark orange. All of these from one plant!
not! in my kitchen. Actually, I can very few tomatoes. We just don't eat tomato based food. Must be genetic thing, but we tend to get heartburn. I make a vegetable juice at the end of the season for stuffed peppers, but not much more. Yay for you, Netty! go girl go! Keep picking capt. Too bad we can't keep them year round, huh?
That's wonderful Carolyn. I have 80 plants with no blight. I am getting lots of tomatoes now. It's just the beginning but to busy to count. I got these seeds from a very special person. They sure are nice tomatoes. They taste so good. I am getting so much I will add them to the cooking down pot for sauce.
Barb, Those are beautiful. I am glad for you that you don't have any blight. I pulled out two plants tonight as I was cleaning up around the garden. Those look familiar. Do you remember which ones they are? Black krim, JD's Special from central Texas, Mariannas Peace? I just don't remember which seeds they were.
No I don't remember which ones they are but I love them. The plant is over 8 foot tall. Now I have tied 2 rows together and they are breaking the stakes. Next year I am going to have 8 foot strong stakes. Not these wimpy ones I have this year. I have to say that we didn't grow tomatoes in that spot last year and we also burned in that area. That will kill any blight that is hiding in the ground. That may be why we don't have any this year.
I wish I am living closer to Carolyn and Barb, all those tomatoes! My tallest tomato seedling is now just about 5 inches tall, will repot them next week.
Tomatos coming out of your ears...I'd like to see that! What a shame about the blight. It is the reason that I have to grow mine in a greenhouse here. We are surrounded by potato farmers. I don't expect that you will have problems getting rid of your whopping harvest at the market.
KK, I wish you lived closer, too. I would love to have you over here helping me pick wash and sort tomatoes. You could eat as many as you wanted and I would never notice. yesterday when I got home my nephew was here. He is about 10. His dad was mowing the lawn for Kevin's dad, so he was just hanging around. He was following me to get some green tomatoes to fill a basket and I asked him if he liked Yummy peppers. "no, I don't like peppers" was his response. So I picked one and let him try it. He thought I was pulling a joke and giving him a hot pepper. I said I would never do that! So he took a tiny bite and said "I like peppers", was his response. . we walked back to the shed and I said do you want to try some tomatoes "no, I don't like tomatoes" once again was his response. so, I said here I wanted to try these today, so I cut them earlier and I liked them. So, I cut a little piece of one and he tried a tiny bite of it. "mmm, I kind of like this". So, I said try another bite. So he did. "I like tomatoes". So we tried about 3 more varieties and he liked them all. Before he went home he had collected a bag of goodies. S, We don't have any potato farms close, so that isn't something I have to worry about, but the weather this year...another difficult gardening season. We had about two weeks in July/August that the nights were in the 50's and even upper 40's a couple of times. it has been a slow and disease laden summer.
