Tomato Season

[wundudnee]

My plan every year is I get to eat all I can and everybody else can have the rest. So far my plan is working. My tomatoes were late this year, but they're coming on fast now. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack.

Soda can for size only.

 

[litenlarry]

For those in cooler climates and shorter growing season, have you considered a tomato like the "early girl" variety ? Not the bush type early girl..
Living here in the Midwest of the U.S. the test is to have tomato's by the fourth of July..Not a full crop, just a few to tease you to what is to come.
Very little core to deal with, very juicy, great taste, also very good for canning..
The EG's die early, usually 4 months or so..Mainly due to heat and direct sunlight..
I have planted from seeds, just too hard to get a early start with them, as grow lights tend to make the early plants too fragile and grow too tall to the light..
This year has been a bear with too much rain, but I can still expect about 25 lbs of 6 oz fruits per plant..
To learn about the plants, totally tomato is a good source..

Garden Seed | Vegetable Garden Seed | Garden Seed Catalog | Garden Seed Company | Totally Tomatoes

 

[BigBill]

I love beefsteak tomatoes they fill up a slice of bread or cover a cheeseburger.

We have a victorio for separating the seeds, the skin from the pulp. It's fast to grind up and desperate the tomatoes for canning sauce.

No boiling, no peeling no wasting time.

 

[BigBill]

My tomato's didn't come in good at all this year...
Small and no flavor.

The one's I grew in N.J. were great!
Must have been the high pollution in the air and soil.

Manure, manure, manure.

Chicken manure in the fall with lime
Horse manure
Compost

If the tomatoes are acidy more Lime.

Take your 12" tomato plants use a 1/2 gallon milk carten bury the plant in the carten. Tear off the lower branches. The stalk will root. Plant the roots sideways. U will be the first to brag to have the first tomatoes.

I miss living in Westwood,NJ. They washed the streets once a week.

 

[bill2000]

A warm freshly picked Jersey tomato, two slices of white bread, lots of Hellman's mayo, salt and plenty of black pepper. Wise chips and a cold glass of milk. Heaven on Earth.

 

[labworm]

My good friend Phil who is retired now, ran Boston Tomato which is located in the New England Produce Center for 43 years.

About ten years ago he gave me this rubber tomato which to this day sits on my desk.

Throughout his career he has handled the fruit from all over the US, Foreign countries and locally.

He was well educated in the world of tomato's, always told me which ones to buy, where to look for the best around here.

Phil was a Italian gentleman, who would know tomato's better than the Italians.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Manure, manure, manure.

Chicken manure in the fall with lime
Horse manure

 

[OLDSTER]

Deer are eating all our tomatoes this year. So I've decided I can make a lot of deer sausage by sacrificing my tomatoes, and tomato fed deer should really be good. Fortunately I live in the country, so even though deer season doesn't open for 3 months, I can claim the deer are trespassing

 

[sheepdawg]

Summer maters are as good as it gets! Two pieces of fresh bread, lots of Blue Plate or Duke's mayo, some thick sliced smoked turkey and two 1/2" thick slices of Ripley tomatoes is pure heaven. Salt and pepper makes it perfect.

Ripley is a place, not a type of mater.......about 40 miles north of Memphis. God did the ground right for maters in Ripley.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Good soil..........

Spray for bugs.............

lots of Miracle Grow...........

Don't forget to water.........

Deer/Rabbit fence if needed.

Works for me.

My family likes a good quality BLT also.

 

[Coldshooter]

I have spent the time since posting trying some of these and am rapidly concluding there are no bad ways to enjoy good tomatos. Even pawngals suggestion to try with peanut butter. I am planning a fritata for Sunday breakfast with fresh tomato, some basil, bacon, cheese and a bit of peppers if there are good ones ready. I am a bit supprised that there were no tomato pie suggestions.

 

[litenlarry]

My mother would make tomato jelly (stock up on bags of sugar ) and at the end of the growing season, she would take the green tomato's that were golfball size and can hot pickled tomato's..." Come on baby light my fire !!!"