Tomatoes 2021

[Ole Joe Clark]

Finally got a fresh photo this morning and here it is. Lots of Maters growing on these two plants, and least 50 with lots more blooms.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[targetchief]

There's only two things in life that money can't buy. That's true love and home grown tomaters.

 

[Puller]

That's a good looking 'mater plant.

I grow mine in 5 gallon planters too and usually stand them up, but this year I'm just letting them sprawl out around the planter on the ground. Gonna give that a try and if it don't work out I'll stand 'em up again next year.

 

[doublesharp]

I've got 10 plants out with lots of blooms and immature greens. Probably 3 weeks until ripe.

 

[500SNW]

Started mine from my own proprietary seed strain on St. Patty's Day. Still waiting for pickable tomatoes...looking like mid-late July for the crop to come flowing. This particular variety I am growing has a really long maturation period...an honest 120 days at best. Crop doing better this year since I added sulfur last Fall and good doses of fertilizer this Spring. It seems that after 25 years of growing stuff...my soil was a bit exhausted. This years crop is looking much more promising than last year.

 

[robvious]

we have already picked some red yellow and green tomatoes... purple are coming.. very early for us.. yesterday did a road trip with the farmer cousin I hunt with to small town lockers & grocery stores with smokehouses picking up sausage and bacon in anticipation of the tomato eating season.. got some jerky & smoked cheese till they start coming in...

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

Yum, yum.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[Chubbo]

Tomatoes

Tomatoes, are often, incorrectly, called vegetables. They are actually a fruit.
Tomatoes are one species of garden produce, that I’ve never tired of, especially when raised from seed, and grown in our own garden. My wife and I grew our own plants in ‘hot beds’. A popular seed co., then, and now, is Burpee’s seed co. The favorite tomato that we grew, was ‘Gurney Girl’.
In our area green peppers are called mangos. There was an unusual tomato, available from Burpees, that was in every aspect, the same as a mango. In the 1950s, we stuffed, and baked them, as we did the mangos, with a hamburger, based stuffing. I really liked them, as I don’t like green peppers. Nowhere can I find a record of those delightful tomatoes.
Does anyone on this thread remember them?