Tomatoes rollin' on Update 5-31

Looking great snuffy. Did you really need to post the sandwich? It is making my mouth water.


Bill

This is sickening. I have one with blooms and seven that are under a foot high. Are you going to sell them by the MFB?
Jim

That's a nice mess of 'maters. Nothing like biting through a still warm ripe tomato out in the field.

Tomatoes are perfect for 'putting up'(canning).They were considered poison by the British in the early days.My neighbor had a spot down on the bank of the Chattahoochee river with super heavy fog and 10 feet thick flood plain soil.The cool river water cooled the air and gave them longer fruiting season.The river was cold due to the 200 foot dam upstream on Lake Lanier.

A quote:
Americans may be in love with tomatoes today, but the relationship got off to a rocky start. During Colonial Times, we wouldn't put a tomato near our mouths, let alone try to eat one. Folklore had it that if you ate a tomato, its poison would turn your blood into acid. Instead, the colonists grew tomatoes purely for decoration.

My great uncles used to beg me to bring 'mountain tomatoes' as they called them,down to Florida.They hated sand grown flavorless Florida tomatoes and wanted them clay grown ones.People think red clay is sterile-nothing further from the truth and super rich in micro nutrients boron calcium copper iron mangenese etc.In clay it is suggested not to fertilize tomatoes in red clay.

Thanks for posting the BLT.I am waiting for fisherbuddies and now goota eat something LOL

Those look spectacular! Were that in my yard, they'd have so many hornworms they'd not even have any leaves left. I tried to grow maters a couple of years ago and all I did was feed the worms and other critters *L*......Mel

John,I've never been bothered by birds pecking them.Got a bunch of birdhouses up,a couple feeders,many hanging around.I have seen people put a bird net over their plants.Another thing you can do is pick them when they begin to show a blush of color,put them in the house and they will be ripe in about three days.In fact,I never let them fully ripen on the vine,too much temptation for bugs,snails,birds,neighbors.

snuffy

No neighbors!! ;D

Are the tomatoes in full production Snuffy?

Cool

They put out huge crop.Getting ready to bear fruit and hang it up.Could you have planted another crop 4-6 weeks later for another batch in July or is it too hot by then?
That is a lot of south wind.No wonder you get a lot of tomatoe heat.I always wondered how the Strawns grew tropical water lilies in College Station;they are unforgiving and die out when long (not very) cold spells come along.Or the warm is too late to have them marketable for April,May and June.Texas attacked the water lily business and tried to have it declared a noxious plant.Mainly due to their aggressive behavior in south Texas.The Strawn lilies are the finest hybrid hardy water lilies in the world.Thailand hybrids are nipping at their heels but using Strawn foundation in their hybridizing program.The Strawns are a special family and treated their clients like kings;always giving us bonus plants and superb quality.

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