Fall/Winter Tomatos II

Starting a new thread on New Years Day as the original is getting kinda long. A pic of each garden. First - the original garden planted in mid-Oct (the one that only gets 5-6 hours of dun per day. ) Twelve plants all doing fairly well

Garden #2 - the strip garden. Planted 10 days after the first. Eleven plants in the ground and two in an eb. Starting to get colorful!

Garden #3 planted early Nov. Thirteen plants here. (Plus beans and cukes)

Last one - the pic of the day. Half a Rose, an Aunt Ginny's Purple and a healthy OTV Bwine.

Sigh - I can almost taste that drippy, ripe Rose...

Yum Yum Flip! My DH said they look good too. My plants don't ever seem to look that lush and nice as yours!

Drooling here in TX.

Pic o' the day - Picked a couple of new ones today, others gettin' ripe now. Here's an Earl of Edgecomb, a small Sudduth, a healthy Rose and an Aunt Ruby's German Green.

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Flip,
Looking good in the neighborhood! I'll start my seedlings this weekend! So excited!

I am going to start my seeds this weekend also.

Ooooooooooooooh Fool, keep in touch with me on your progress, and let's compare notes!

I think I am starting mine this week too! So excited.

Hey Folks

Looks great flip

IM back. LOL planned, and had a wedding a week before thanksgiving---son is now married. then thanksgiving, then xmas. Im ready for a break.
Im ready to grow tomatoes. Will sow seed last week in Jan. Too chicken to start seed sooner than that. Afraid they will get too big before i can set them out in greenhouse beds.
By the way-----I had tomatoes at xmas off my sunroom tomato plant. They were so good. I threw the plant out after I noticed a nice family of white flies. Been cleaning the white flies off my house plants ever since. UGG


Cricket

Cricket, good to hear from you! Congrats on your son's marriage!

I'll be starting my seeds on the 8th, I think. I can't let Merae get too far ahead of me! haha.

Michelle

I will be starting mine on the 6th...only 2 days ahead of you my friend. :-)

I'm with Merae on the 6th. My 50th b'day is on the 8th!

P.S. Since we're all planting around the same time, let's keep video diaries of our progress and make sure to post the pics so we can compare notes together. What'd ya'll think of this idea? My camera's empty and ready to start snapping!

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Time for a few pics - the action is beginning here as many maaters are changing colors and ripening. The plants are really loaded, many with 20-30 fruit on them and still flowering merrily along.

This is for Sequee, our birthday girl - Anna Russian. Sequee, this is the smallest mater in the ripening stage on this plant. There are others much larger and this plant is really getting a lot of fruit. I think you'll have great luck with it. I'll report back after tasting it...tonite!

Here's a Galinas - a yellow, potato leafed cherry. Pretty decent tasting.

Here's a couple of Mortgage Lifters

I'm thinking about how to build a better tomato cage....

Don't cage them. Trellis them.

"Don't Fence Me In!"

Flip - Is it time for that account number, maybe next week? That Anna Russian is beautiful! What did you think of the taste?

-Kim

Hey Kim,
It could be pretty soon. I tell you from yesterday to today - I can hardly describe how much more color has gotten into the maters and how many more I see. There's hundreds. You saw it last year. I'm telling you, barring a mater epidemic in my back yard, this year's looking better than last. The Sudduths and Briannas this years have 4x more maters on them, at least! Everything's doing very well save the two virused-out plants and even on them I saw new maters. I'm gettin' lucky in my old age.

Today I picked a few Sudduths, a Brianna and gobs of Galinas and Sungolds. I also kept stringing up vines everywhere. (I really like the concrete reinforcing mesh as a trellis/support system. That looks like the best way for me.) Then I sprayed for the buggies. Time for some beers!

Flip,
Explain your concrete reinforcing mesh trellis/support system, please. Thanks.

Your Anna Russian plant looks very pretty - nice foliage. Now, my dear, time for the report on your taste test?

The Anna Russian was sweet and juicy but I'm holding out on a final judgement until I eat a few more. This was the first ripe one on the vine. I have a lot of bigger ones that may taste even better once they're ripe. I'll be sure to let you know!

GG - all you do for my "system" is go to HD and buy some of the concrete reinforcing mesh, cut it (with bolt cutters) to the size you like (mine are half-cylindrical - about 4' across and 6' high. Then I cut out the lowest row of horizontal wire, leaving only the pointy ends, and shove it in the dirt. I support the wire with a 4' piece of rebar..

Flip,
That is ingenious, and so simple even I can understand it! Thanks for sharing!

Here's a couple of pics for this fine S Fla Sunday morning. First one is a nice cluster of Sandul Moldovan -

And here's a nice Amana Orange getting just about ready

Here's a little cluster of J Flamme (this is one of the two plants that has some sort of mater virus up on the top of the plant.)

Last one - these are the first two ripening Red Ecuador. They were a freebie from Sandhill on my order last year. Looks like a bird got the first taste on one of them. Btb, the rest of the plant looks real nice vs the funky lookin' leaves here.

Flip

EQUADORIAN RED??? Oh, boy!

Can you believe the Amana Orange was one of the first seeds I ever ordered and I still haven't planted it??? Can't wait for your review! (I'm beginning to "feel" my list growing...)

I had the last tomato of the 2006 crop in a salad Jan. 3. It was picked green on Nov 5. along with many others. We canned some, sold some, gave away some, ate some more, (I had tomatoes 3 or 4 times a week.)
I am going to plant more in the greenhouse this year. I had 240 plants last year, going for 400. I might go a little earlier, but like cricket, I am a little chicken. I have a big furnace in there, but it takes a lot of fuel.
Bernie

Bernie, I've been following your mater exploits for a couple of years and you've done great. Good luck with this new year's crop!
Flip

It's still a bit early for major ledge shots but it needs to start sometime, so....here's the first of the season - from left to right:
Amana Orange (big one is 1lb2oz), some Sungold, Brianna at 1lb10oz, my first Chapman ever 1lb15oz (I really wanted to say 2lbs), some J Flamme, several pretty Sandul Moldovan and a Hawaiian Pineapple
The season has begun and I be a happy camper.

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Flip,
Why does the term "mutant tomatoes," come to my mind as I view your HUGE tomatoes?

Ummm, ummm, ummm! Lookin' good!

Sorry, the term "you s%*&k" comes to mind - errr, I mean congrats on the harvest du jour. May there be many more for the friends of the smug happy camper..Oh, did I say that?!? We are already talking poundage!?! Gotta love all the hard work and seedling baby sitting you do twice a year. Thanks for sharing (literally:)

XO
Kim

Flip, Ah yes....the famous Ledge Shots!! Boy do they look yummy!!!!!!! keep those shots comin'.

Michelle