mah toamater plants are growing like weeds

[commander bunnypants]

just call me dan qaulye. god I cant even spell this morning.


mmmmmm. two months and I will be eating real homegrown no poison beefstaek tomatoes. I cant wait. They are growing about an inch a day.

DDQM

[Kolesar]

1. We just tilled and planted leeks

Spring was late arriving this year

[underpants]

2. Tomato plants...riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

Funny story- my brother and my stepfather years ago were having a contest to see who could grow the best 'mater in the backyard. My brother decided that it was perfect cover to grow his own of something else :smoke: unfortuneately one day my mother was doing some yard work and decided to help him out by "pulling up those weeds that were around your plant", I thought he was going to have a heartattack.

[flowomo]

3. put mine in yesterday.... central PA

if the damn bunnies stay away, should be fine. The squash goes in today

[demnan]

4. How do you support the big ones?

When I had a back yard I used to plant the stakes right down in the cages and tie the stems up to the stake and let the tomatoes ride out on the cage.

I used to fertilize with fish emollusion. Horrible stuff! Makes your hands itch and stinks, but the tomatoes loved it and it's totally organic.

[commander bunnypants]

5. triangle metal support cage

you dont want to know what i use for fertilizer. :)


DDQM

[flowomo]

6. I use cages

[underpants]

7. FREE the TOMATOES!!!!!!!

Does a caged 'mater sing?

[commander bunnypants]

10. the bird tomatoe of alcatraz

DDQM

[spinbaby]

8. Best tomato fertilizer...

...plant 'em over the septic system.

Mine will go in this weekend. Usually, I wait until the third weekend in May but we've been having a warm spell so I'm going for a week early.

[bearfan454]

9. Mine were so big last year that I had to tie up the branches with strips

of old towels. I also had to use rebar to hold up the cages. I am running really late this year, but they are in.



Around july I had this:



Hot banana peppers make the best salsa.



I love tomatoes

[demnan]

11. Where's your backyard?

I might make a midnight trip or two this year. ;-)

[bearfan454]

14. In Taylor, Tx

I usually take them to work, give them to all the neighbors, eat all I can, and still end up throwing some of them away.

[havocmom]

12. I generally have such a bumper crop of salad greens that I give them

to the cook at the rest home. Maybe we should plan a DU harvest picnic!

I just harvested a mess of baby spinach and I am in posession of a stash of free-range chicken eggs. Anybody else love spinach souffle? mmmmmm!

Hey, Demman, have you ever tried a tomato called 'lime green salad tomato'? They are really excellant. We try several varieties each year but it is still too early to set them out here in the north 40. But the peas, beets, cilantro and ruhbarb are doing swell! Need to plant more salad greens, chard and bok choy.

Been toting my pepper plants in and out of the shed every night. We are looking at possibility of snow again this week then maybe it will settle down. (60 MPH wind with hail last night, today doesn't look much better)

Gardening as a political act and teach the kids how to make food appear. Very empowering for them.

[commander bunnypants]

13. never heard of that kind

They had a new breed called stripey's I think. They kinda weirded me out. A tomatoe is supposed to be red not yellow, green and red striped.


DDQM

[bearfan454]

16. I grew stripeys 2 years ago.

They do pretty good actually. My favorite is Early Girl. I have grown Southern star, 4th of July, Celebrity, Big boy, better boy, VFN, heatwave, heatwave2, hybrid, German Queen, beefsteak, roma, cherry, patio, and many more. Early Girl makes a lot of tomatoes, they are good sized, and they taste good. You can't ask for more than that.

[commander bunnypants]

15. Snow?

now I believe you and that you live at the end of the world!!!


It will be a nice, hot balmy 95 here today


DDQM

[jburton]

17. Recycle old yard sign stakes

When the tomato plants get HUGE we use stakes to prop up the cages.

We always have tons of political signs around our yard during campaign season. After the elections are over, we keep the stakes for the 'maters.

Democratic victory garden!

[catmandu57]

18. Ours went in Saturday

We're stairstepping this year, cherry, early girl, big boy in that order. Then we have pepper plants, and our strawberries are going great. I'll be making pies in a week or so.