Tomaters!!! *pics*

[Cattle Cait]

Our tomatoes are beautiful and fat and DELICIOUS! These particular ones are Soldacki tomatoes, and they are fantastic in this goofy Michigan weather.

Okay, so some might be a little grody. I still liked the photos I got of them.

 

[Marinea]

*jealous*

Too much rain ruined all of our tomatoes this year. We didn't get but one single tomato. Those look terrific to me.

 

[grumpy]

Are they an heirloom? They look good.

The most my boys and I ever put out
in the market garden was 500 plants.
The boys were kept busy pickin' maters.
We sold a little over 10,000 pounds of tomatoes
that season. Never again...LOL.

150 sets was the max thereafter.
I forgot to even put some out this year.
Missus voiced her 'displeasure'..won't forget again.

grumpy.

 

[AmysMacdog]

Ooooh I'm jealous!! Yep the rain killed mine this year too so I replanted and now I have nice big plants just starting to bloom and they probably won't have enough time before frost but we'll see.

 

[PSFAngoras]

Grody... Tsk tsk Cait, they're beautiful!

(Says the lady who works at an organic plant nursery that raises over 50 varieties of heirloom tomatoes...)

 

[grumpy]

I started to take a course at the University
about grafting heirloom tomatoes onto "wild-tomato"
root-stocks. Couldn't find the time though.

It sounded really interesting. Much better vigor
against a lot of the diseases out there.

I've been told:
"Theoretically" a tomato plant does not have a life-span.
If kept in a perfect environment they will live indefinitely.

grumpy.

 

[Toady]

Your beautiful massive tomatoes have spurred me into planting some tomato seeds myself in the hope of getting some beautiful fruit... seeing as it's spring down here. Some might call them ugly but as long as they taste good who cares what they look like!

 

[PSFAngoras]

I started to take a course at the University
about grafting heirloom tomatoes onto "wild-tomato"
root-stocks. Couldn't find the time though.

It sounded really interesting. Much better vigor
against a lot of the diseases out there.

I've been told:
"Theoretically" a tomato plant does not have a life-span.
If kept in a perfect environment they will live indefinitely.

grumpy.

We grow a cherry variety called 'red robin'. Some of the 'pet' plants in the greenhouse have made it past two years old!

 

[grumpy]

I used to sell hundreds of starts to the public.
I enjoyed the greenhouse on those cold, frosty days.
One by one, seed by seed, I'd spend hours enjoying the silence.

Then....after a while....I had a veritable jungle!

Grumpy.

 

[Mary Ann's Rabbitry]

Your beautiful massive tomatoes have spurred me into planting some tomato seeds myself in the hope of getting some beautiful fruit... seeing as it's spring down here. Some might call them ugly but as long as they taste good who cares what they look like!

SPRING??????????????.. we are just going into fall right now..

 

[Cattle Cait]

I think they are heirlooms, we ordered them from Baker Creek seeds I believe.

 

[PSFAngoras]

They are heirlooms then. Or heritage (been around less than 50 years. ) baker creek only sells open pollinated, so no gmo or hybrid varieties

 

[skysthelimit]

They are heirlooms then. Or heritage (been around less than 50 years. ) baker creek only sells open pollinated, so no gmo or hybrid varieties

Sounds like the place I want to get some seeds from.


Those tomatoes are beautiful.

I have tomatoes, no where near as large. They have been on the vine green for 2 1/2 weeks, with no sign of turning red. I can't bring them in the house to ripen because of all the fruit flies.