Tomatoes anyone?

[DevonW]

Our tomatoes have gone out of control. This photo was taken yesterday I'm 5'9" and standing on the highest part in the entire garden. The garden is almost completely rabbit manure with a bit of black earth mixed. We grew every tomato from seed. My eggplants and peppers have gone insane too.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

Lovely!

Is the jar for collecting tomato worms?

 

[DevonW]

The names of the tomatoes are written on the stakes the jars are protecting it from the elements so we can still read them at harvesting time. It also ads interest to the garden.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

This year I have been cutting strips from 2 liter soda bottles and writing on them with a Sharpie. It is nearly impossible to find some of them now because the plants have gotten so large!

 

[ZRabbits]

Wow! Congratulations on a beautiful garden. Love it when a garden goes insane!

Karen

 

[Peach]

Congrats! The cherry tomatos I planted is producing well,but my grandpa's tomato plants is lagging. Not one tomato yet! The plant is big though. So strange. Usually we have tons of tomatos by now. No flowers either. Late bloomer? I like to start from a seed but he didn't this year. Maybe it has something to do with that.

 

[Lowell]

Great looking tomatoe plants. I have lots of green tomatoes but sure wish they would turn red!!!!!!!!

 

[Devon's Mom Lauren]

We put the jars there to freak out the neighbours hahahaha! However, when the wind blew or it rained ( before the heat and drought and the plants were smaller) they would make a noise/vibration which i think helped keep pests out of the garden. I also have a tin foil pie plate swinging around that smacks the metal pole thing its attached to that also may be scaring off the moles with ground vibrations and the deer with the noise.

 

[ZRabbits]

We have lots of cherry tomatoes, but our Big Boys are really having a problem with the heat. Really thick skins and not turning red real fast.

Karen

 

[skysthelimit]

Thanks to this forum, I corrected the end rot problem by setting up a very pretty sprinkler in the front and back gardens. However, Phoenix took care of those precious first few tomatoes. I was in the kitchen, making dinner (gasps from all) and I saw her throwing what appeared to be an orange ball up in the air. I was trying to figure out where she got that toy from, when I realized my tomato was no longer on the dining room table...

 

[lanezjones]

wow.....Beautiful garden....I love tomotoes....My friend has planted a tomato plant in a container...it grows really fast but the bottom part has turned little bit black...are they insect casing...?? What should we do?

 

[fuzzy9]

They look great! Are they producing lots of tomatoes? Everything here has suffered from heat stress, not a good year for planting anything.

 

[a7736100]

I only eat sweet 100's but my rabbits will eat big tomatoes and some will eat bell peppers and even eggplants.