I've been waiting until my plants get a little size to them. They've been noticeably growing each day. Looks like they are just about to really take off. We've had some nice weather as of late, hoping/praying it continues. So far only tomatoes have been planted in my SWCs. Started seeds on 1/4/10. Planted on 2/20/10.
Pictured(L to R) - Pruden's Purple, Brandywine(Sudduth), Paul Robeson, and Indian Stripe.
Orange Minsk box
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Stump of the World box
I think I went a little nutty with tomatoes this year :)
What's been planted so far....
-Pruden's Purple
-Brandywine(Sudduth)
-Paul Robeson
-Indian Stripe
-Virginia Sweets
-Stump of the World
-Unknown Heirloom(Yellow Beefsteak)
-Neves Azorean Red
-Orange Minsk
-Danko
-Anna Russian
-Coustralee
-Brandy Boy
-Juanne Flamme
And here is the second wave of plants for next months planting...
Tomatoes
-Coure Di Bue
-Royal Hillbilly
-Brandywine(Cowlick's)
-Vorlon
-Goose Creek
-Lucky Cross
-Gary'O Sena
-Wes
-JD's Special C-Tex
-Caspian Pink
-Supersteak
-Moonglow
-Sweet Chelsea
-Riesentraube
-Big Beef
Peppers
-Biker Billy Jalapenos
-Peter Pepper
-Super Heavyweight
-Giant Aconcagua
-Gypsy
-Aji Dulce#2
-Jaloro
-Giant Marconi
-Jimmy Nardello
-Big Daddy
Looks great, babe. I don't know about "a little" nutty.
Beautiful plants, nah, not nutty, variety is the spice of life ain't it? LOL
joy
Cool!
Ray, you'll have to rate them for us.....how well each grows in your coastal climate, size, taste. Sounds like you will have a lot of happy friends and neighbors.
I just made a couple of e-buckets for mine...1 Champion and 1 Jelly Bean grape tom. Saving my 2 ebs for other things this year.
And to think....I cut out about 25 other varieties to get to 30. 55 different kinds of tomatoes would have been certifiably insane for me to attempt in my yard :)
Will do Carol. About 75% of these are all first time tries here. I have grown Pruden's Purple, Brandywine, Caspian Pink, Paul Robeson and Riesentraube before with good success in my climate.
At $6 plus a pound for the heirlooms when you can get them at Fresh Market, maybe you can have a new side business. Your neighbors are gonna luv you!
I've seen them as high as $7.99 lb. at some stores. It just reads "Heirloom Tomatoes".
It's been in the back of my mind(but growing) about selling seedlings and/or tomatoes. But have no idea how I'd even get started. Could easily start hundreds if not thousands of seedlings and charge a dollar or two less than any nursery around(plus stronger and healthier). Last year, on a smaller scale I gave away at least a few hundred pounds of tomatoes, just in June-July alone. Hmmmm......
This should be, "So far, SO AMAZING!"
Hello, everyone! Mark's vegetable garden is quite happening! The plants are healthy and racing to have the first fruits of the season.
Thanks 'Pet :) But not amazing yet(they have doubled in size since last pics though) I will never count my chickens before they hatch. Had a little scare with 2 Danko plants. Curly new growth always gets my heart rate up. But plants are healthy and no other signs of disease(other than pig tailed stems). Hoping it's just environmental stressors messing with them. Keeping a close eye on them though.
Might as well post this. Aerogarden counts as a Self-Contained Garden, right? In a month and a half it's already to the highest point. Been trimming handfuls upon handfuls of herbs daily for weeks but that doesn't slow it down. 24 hours later, it's back at the top needing to be trimmed again.
Nice batch Ray. The Stumps of The World look like trees?
Nice batch Ray. The Stumps of The World look like trees?[/quote]
Thanks T! SotW is 3rd in growth rate so far. They're still doing well at the moment. Staring to flower.
[quote="Molamola"]Yes, what the heck is a "Stump of the World"? haha, great name! I'm off to google it.
You are the Tomato Man for sure.
Beautiful Ray.
joy
Starting to plant my peppers in their final containers. Lots of work ahead.
Pruden's Purple Box doing nicely. Trying to stay on top of sucker removal. Trying to keep my plants more manageable this year.
Brandywine(Sudduth) box. 75% of the tomatoes are starting to flower now.
Needing to find room, I'm now setting a few plants in the African Daisies.
Cuostralee tomato.
Great pix, Ray! Makes me even more anxious to get mine into containers or the ground ... but that's about a month away. Hope everything does well for you this year.
Great pix, Ray! Makes me even more anxious to get mine into containers or the ground ... but that's about a month away. Hope everything does well for you this year.
Ray Beautiful tomato plants, how come the pic has a black strip going down the middle sideways when you enlarge it though? I like to click on the pics so I can see them better. I have all 10 EBs, 6 GPs and 40 E buckets full of potting mix, fertilizer and dolomite lime, out of potting mix completely and just 11 blocks of coir left to work with. Got all the plants transplanted except the 6 eggplants, peppers and remaining 9 tomatoes. Of course, I've left some EBs open and some E buckets open for the ones coming from Burpees and Shumways and have some 5 gallon grow bags should I need them also. I had 3-4 of the drain tubes clog on me on the 5 gallon buckets, but that ain't bad given I have 40 of them and the thing is I used the 3 1/2 gallon bucket for the reservoir and it's see through, so I can see if it needs water or not. LOL.
joy
Ray Beautiful tomato plants, how come the pic has a black strip going down the middle sideways when you enlarge it though?
Pics look great on my computer!
Cool, thanks Carol.
As far as clogged drain tubes. I've had a few EBs on the verge of getting clogged from a bunch of snails. I just straightened a wire hanger and mashed them all up..... made a nice snail slurry :)
I just pictured blowing on the tube and getting a mouthful of snail gut splash back. lol
This thread IS under the radar, LOL.
LOL, TSK shall find it's way home to Oceanside and spout has cover. Hopefully eliminating escargot problem.
(OMG, Mark (RayDerPhan) said we have some escargot frozen at home. Yet I never asked him where he ordered them). Did he say LOCAL?
I think I know what she would say (see pic) :)
TSK has been redesigned and the new one is scheduled to arrive today. Waiting for you to get home.
TSK has been redesigned and the new one is scheduled to arrive today. Waiting for you to get home.
Moonglow? Why would you want to plant that variety? LOL
I hope the cage is not a pain to assemble anymore. Hmm, I have only one Moonglow. I'll look for another locally.
Surprised you have never grown it! I told you to take 2 of them.
Well, here's my first TSK already to go. 2 Moonglow tomatoes planted. Probably add some marigolds and then mulch it. The cage was was a little funky to put together but once it's up, it's really sturdy. I really like the width of the box and the wicking system seems like a winner. Thank you again :)
The pleasure is all mine! It would have been cool to grow one of your favorite tomatoes in a TSK for comparison.
I grew either beans, marigolds, or nasturtiums with my TSK tomatoes last year for companion planting.
Looks great!
