saltydad

I actually ran out of room for my tomato/veggie garden this year. I'm growing 2 varieties with the upside down hanging method- Brandywine and Mortgage Lifter. In the past I always had a least 1 plant of Super Sweet 100's; they're delicious and very abundant.

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sunfish

First year growing super sweet 100's. Haven't harvested any but the plants loaded with fruit

PennyG

Cool...good luck with them

sbl

I have been picking tomatoes since the end of May--mostly black plum so far as well as some sweet 100s--better boy is not yet ready, niether are hillbilly and belgian giant.

sunfish

Speckled Roma

Abnshrek

I had 2 tomato (homegrown) sandwiches for lunch yesterday :^)

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sbl

I have been having BLTCs all week--love those homegrown tomatoes and fresh cucumbers!

bananarama2

This is intended for Scuba Dave....very impressed with the number of tomatoes you grow. I was just hoping you are aware of the problems of blight remaining in the soil (so don't plant in the same area as previous year), and that most times blight is transferred to plants by rain splashing up from the soil onto plants. Around here, many people plant tomatoes under some sort of plastic structure, both to hasten ripening by trapping heat, and to reduce the chance of blight splash. Regardless, hope this is the year that breaks your bad luck streak with the "maters".

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bananarama2

You folks in the southern States have to lighten up and cut us "Northerners" some slack. Love all the stories and pictures, but it's a very short road from Impressed to Frustrated, with only a short stop-over in Envy! Brag if you will, but be gentle with the more climatically challenged. Thanks for the sharing,....have a great weekend all!

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Scuba_Dave

My Tomatoes have just started flowering
None growing yet as far as I can tell
But I haven't checked all 170+ plants
I moved about 2 dozen -too close together...not sure where some of them ended up

bananarama2

Here on "The Island", we generally grow tomatoes under structure, both for the blight problem and to ripen fruit faster by intensifying the heat a bit, since we tend to have mild but not hot temperatures, and slightly cooler night temperatures. I built a small 8X12 hothouse/greenhouse, just for that purpose, and grow my tomatoes in large nursery pots. So far, I've had good success, with tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers all doing well in this little artificial environment. On top of which, I have zero problems with the rampant deer population devouring everything in sight! The cost of deer fencing is so prohibitive, even though I'd prefer to plant a mini-orchard of tomatoes outside myself. Sometimes it's difficult to keep some sort of balance between the passion to grow and the limitations of space and maintenance. As long as you are having fun, go for the gusto!

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bananarama2

Just thought I'd mention, lots of flowers, and one or two fruits developing. Tomatillo's seem happy and producing fruits as well. Can't wait to taste the results!

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bananarama2

This is going to be a challenge, since we don't all have the same growing conditions, based mostly on geography. But it occurred to me that there is a lot of "passion to grow things" happening on this site. So, if you all can control your own self-indulgences, what would be, say your top five, "gotta have'em's" in your yard, garden, home, etc.? Remember....we can't all grow or appreciate some of the more zone specific possibilities!

Bananas being #1 of course!

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sunfish

Tomatoes

r3tic

My plants are just starting to put out flowers. I planted a decent size garden this year, the first time in about 10 years. I have the following varieties...

Black Prince
Black Krim
Green Zebra
White Wonder
Jersey Giant
Snowberry
Juanne Flamme
Pink Caspian
Big Rainbow

This year I traded seeds to get as many heirloom varieties as I had room for. I have 1 plant each and I plan on limiting myself to the 3 varieties I like best next year plus trying 1-2 more new ones.

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sunfish

Volunteer in potted banana.

Abnshrek

Fresh out of the garden. :^)

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PennyG

Yummy looking tomatoes, lots of little ones here, but none i can take off the vines yet.

sandy0225

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!

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