Post your tomatoes

Wow it looks like everybody is outside. Sadly I'm in wisconsin and it's fall. Outdoor beds are comming down tomorrow but I have already started inside. Who grows veggies indoors?

Growing a bunch of romaine and cherry tomatoes. The cherry tomatoes are staying in the tent but all the romaine is going outside in the big bag beds.

Basically followed this guys advice: (only thing I need to add is Azomite and fungi and I'm ready to plant!)

Last harvest before the frost.

johnny961 said:

Last harvest before the frost.

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oh man nice. reminds me of my nonnos garden

johnny961 said:

Last harvest before the frost.

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That is totally awesome.

Dave's Not Here said:

Wow and it's still loaded up with peppers too, I need to grow a couple of those for the markets next year... is that a first year plant?

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yes, Dave. i planted the seed in mid April. i find i can get about two years out of a plant.

Po boy said:

yes, Dave. i planted the seed in mid April. i find i can get about two years out of a plant.

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Awesome pepper plant you grew there, showcase quality, I gotta try a couple and hope they grow half as good as yours.

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Last harvest before the frost.

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Looks so much better than the crap sold in stores. Awesome harvest.

Here's mine from last year. This year's didn't look to hot from the aphids and leaf spot that ultimately killed everything.

Im slightly north of 45N...
@Dave's Not Here ...... these were about a week ago, gonna have Thanksgiving tomatoes ?
the Cherry tom's are @ about 8-9 ft going into the neighbors fruit trees.....



Also found two avocadoes still going as I chopped down the remains of the garden...brought them inside

Abiqua said:

Im slightly north of 45N...
@Dave's Not Here ...... these were about a week ago, gonna have Thanksgiving tomatoes ?
the Cherry tom's are @ about 8-9 ft going into the neighbors fruit trees.....


Also found two avocadoes still going as I chopped down the remains of the garden...brought them inside

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Your tomatoes look awesome. I've got a cherry tomato plant next to the house that's still alive for now, but everything else is has been dead for weeks. Does it frost and snow there?

Last couple in my garden still goin also....bout to start frosting over here it looks like though...this was a fun thread lots of great gardens. ATB!

So my mom was at my house last week and i was showing her my tomato plants when i mistakenly broke off a branch, i was just gonna throw it away when she said no just put it in a glass of water and put it on the window seal. 7 days later.

I grew 39 tomato plants last year but everything was destroyed by field mice and squash bugs. Any ideas on how to rid my garden of these naturally? The squash bugs were the worse, I would find 20+ on each tomato everyday and it seemed like no matter how often I sprayed with Neem Oil/dish soap/water they just kept coming back. I grew some Trinidad Scorpion peppers this year so I'm going to try a pepper/garlic/dish soap/neem oil spray and see if that helps. Any other ideas? Oh yeah from all of the heirloom types I grew, my purple Paul Robeson was the best tasting. Better than the Cherokee Purple, Brandywine, Granny Cantrell and everything else I grew. Get your hands on Paul Robeson if you can, they are amazing.

I have three green ones in the window now waiting to ripen.....ATB!

Bump!

Picked me my first ripe tomato of the season today. This one is a Mortgage Lifter. Also growing Brandywines and Hybrid beefsteaks.

I don't know if you can tell from this pic taken in the dark last night with my headlamp, but I just picked a whopper!

It's a mortgage lifter heirloom. Wish I had a scale, but maybe 2lbs?

Here is the ugliest tomatoe you've ever seen. All of my brandywines from that plant have some sort of deformity on the bottoms - but none like this.

Looks normal from the top...
But turn it over and...

From what I've read, it could be a genetic mutation that affects 1 in 1000 seeds. I suspect though that it is from pushing the season and planting when too cold. Maybe I need to brush up on my hardening-off skills.

In any case, they're still big and tasty