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sandy0225 · 06-25-2010, 06:27 AM

I picked a 10 lb box yesterday for farmers market. We cheat though and start large gallon size potted plants in the greenhouse and then move out 25 of them to the garden in May. So they already have some good tomatoes on them when we put them out. Then we plant the other tomatoes around the end of may when things settle down around here a little bit. So we have about 500 out right now. Mountain gold, mountain spring, pik rite and pineapple in the market garden, and heirlooms in my personal garden. Mostly rare ones, ones I'm trying for the first time, and ones I need seeds of. This year we've got all the new Brad Gates Wild boar farms ones like pink boar, michael pollan, black and brown striped boar, sweet carneros pink, and also some osu blue, Kumato f1, tomatoberry from park's, razzleberry, frankenstein black,and a new (to me) heirloom that's supposed to be yellow on the outside and red on the inside. Indian stripe, rose quartz multiflora, and millefleur yellow multiflora cherry. And then my old faves that I have to put out each year, Aunt ruby's german green, black krim, black cherry, snow white cherry, brown berry, chocolate cherry, ildi yellow grape, isis cherry.
We've been picking tomatoes in some form since March around here!

06-25-2010, 06:27 AM	#80 (permalink)
sandy0225 Northern Tropics sandy0225's Photo Gallery Location: Muncie, Indiana zone 5 Find me on the map! Zone: zone 5 Name: Sandy Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,718 BananaBucks : 365,196 Feedback: 31 / 97% Said "Thanks" 38 Times Was Thanked 1,801 Times in 682 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 9 Times	Re: Tomatoes I picked a 10 lb box yesterday for farmers market. We cheat though and start large gallon size potted plants in the greenhouse and then move out 25 of them to the garden in May. So they already have some good tomatoes on them when we put them out. Then we plant the other tomatoes around the end of may when things settle down around here a little bit. So we have about 500 out right now. Mountain gold, mountain spring, pik rite and pineapple in the market garden, and heirlooms in my personal garden. Mostly rare ones, ones I'm trying for the first time, and ones I need seeds of. This year we've got all the new Brad Gates Wild boar farms ones like pink boar, michael pollan, black and brown striped boar, sweet carneros pink, and also some osu blue, Kumato f1, tomatoberry from park's, razzleberry, frankenstein black,and a new (to me) heirloom that's supposed to be yellow on the outside and red on the inside. Indian stripe, rose quartz multiflora, and millefleur yellow multiflora cherry. And then my old faves that I have to put out each year, Aunt ruby's german green, black krim, black cherry, snow white cherry, brown berry, chocolate cherry, ildi yellow grape, isis cherry. We've been picking tomatoes in some form since March around here! __________________ Sandy Burrell Northern Tropics Greenhouse 1501 East Fuson Road Muncie, IN 47302 www.northerntropics.com specializing in bananas, heirloom tomatoes and water gardening plants~ check out our new online store at our website!