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Post by solargeek on Jun 19, 2020 11:49:09 GMT
Ok 420 TOMATO PLANTS ARE IN. Never realized I was planting that much. Oh my stars, we will be loaded with tomatoes if even half of them, or a quarter.
From my forum friend Martin Longseth: heirloom
Paquebot Roma, Ondra Szek, one I call "Big Delicious" as lost the tags years ago, Berkeley Tie Dye, Evans Purple Pear, Mashenka, huge San Marzano,
From Seeds of Italy: big Pomodoro Red Pear
From peaceful Valley: Amish Paste
From MiGardener: Black from Tula,
Black Seaman, WISCONSIN 55 (lousy germination)
From Totally Tomatoes: 10 Fingers of Naples, giant Belgium,
From sister: Rutgers, Glacier, Tomato Green Vermissage
From "Tom" (can't recall who he is):
German stripey, Cherokee Purple
Really excited to see what grows well! 
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Post by willowgirl on Jun 19, 2020 12:07:37 GMT
Usually "420" is associated with a different type of plant!  That is a lot of tomatoes though! Are you planning to take some to market, or process them all yourself?! |
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Post by feather on Jun 19, 2020 12:56:19 GMT
Usually "420" is associated with a different type of plant! That is a lot of tomatoes though! Are you planning to take some to market, or process them all yourself?!  That's very funny. DS has shown me lots of pictures of that different type of plant with captions of 'still no tomatoes'. solargeek, that's fantastic. Our last count is 117 and it's going to be a busy year, God Willing. |
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Post by Cabin Fever on Jun 19, 2020 12:57:11 GMT
How big are the plants now in mid-June? I hope you get a huge harvest before frost. If you do, it might be worth our while to run over and buy a couple of bushels.  |
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Post by comfortablynumb on Jun 19, 2020 14:00:23 GMT
10 fingers of naples is a odd tomato... I grew them once they were clusters of little long tomatoes. Hard to process due to the size.
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Post by solargeek on Jun 19, 2020 15:59:25 GMT
Usually "420" is associated with a different type of plant! That is a lot of tomatoes though! Are you planning to take some to market, or process them all yourself?! I'm sorry to say I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know the reference? No they are for home use and for giving gifts to people. I also cook for bunches of people at church and in the family when they are ill or something terrible befalls them. I also cook for bunches of people at church and in the family when they are ill or something terrible befalls them. But, I dehydrate at least a bushel of Tomatoes each year and last year was a pretty big crop failure. I only got 8 quarts of sauce and a very slim amount of dehydrated/sun-dried tomatoes for the pesto I make, and for use on pizza, salads, and in every kind of soup known to mankind. So I am preparing in case I have another crop failure this year. Last year we had extremely cold weather in June, a tornado in May, and intense rains in May. Pretty much only late planted season crops AND potatoes did well. This year it was very cold at the end of May and the beginning of June with nights in the 30s and 40s. However most of them came through and I planted some later on also. |
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Post by solargeek on Jun 19, 2020 16:02:44 GMT
How big are the plants now in mid-June? I hope you get a huge harvest before frost. If you do, it might be worth our while to run over and buy a couple of bushels. I will post pictures tomorrow on my/your site and if you want to you can copy them over here. I don't have a way of doing it. Some of them are knee-high and others are only 6 inches high. I had to replace some of the earlier plantings after the very cold nights we had at the end of May and beginning of June. That 28°F night really stressed the tomatoes and peppers. I don't actually sell anything. Usually it's all for home use, home gifts, and meals that I make and freeze in our deep freeze to give to people at the parish and in the family who have tragic events. I ran out of tomatoes much earlier this year and had to buy them. We have a deep freeze 14 cu ft solely dedicated to vegetables from the harvest. Our other deep freeze is 17 ft.³ and contains all the soups as well as all the meats and fish poultry and ready-made meals that I have prepared. I hope to load it with tons of lasagnas and chili and soup soups! |
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Post by manygoatsnmore on Jun 19, 2020 18:44:22 GMT
Usually "420" is associated with a different type of plant! That is a lot of tomatoes though! Are you planning to take some to market, or process them all yourself?! I'm sorry to say I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know the reference? 420 is a reference to marijuana. I didn't know the reference either, until a few years ago when my bff and I found ourselves stuck in major traffic in Vancouver, BC, on April 20th. There was a giant, peaceful protest for the legalization of marijuana going on! My bff had to explain to me the significance of the date and what 420 meant. I guess you and I live more sheltered lives, lol. The air was full of smoke, and the protesters appeared to be very mellow. 😉😁 We joked that we might be in some danger of being mugged for our Doritos by a protester with the munchies, but other than that, we were more in danger of a contact high than anything else. It took hours to clear traffic and get out of the city...no one was moving fast, haha. |
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Post by mogal on Jun 19, 2020 19:46:48 GMT
I didn't know 420 either and I guess I'm glad I lead a sheltered life. Sometimes I even tell DH I'm too young to know about such things. I'm 71.
I told DH about all the tomatoes you have, solargeek, because he complained last year about my having 50 plants. I'd actually started with 100 plants but I gave half of the seedlings to a neighbor who hadn't had time to grow any herself, along with extra onions, leeks and peppers. Except for cooked things like soup, chili, spaghetti, etc., you can forget tomatoes as far as he's concerned. Me? I'll eat fresh tomatoes 3 meals a day plus snacks, 7 days a week through the whole season. Love scrambled eggs and tomatoes for breakfast, a "nirvana sandwich" for lunch (WW bread, homemade mayo, thick slices of tomato, cucumber, Muenster cheese), tomatoes and cottage cheese or Mozzarella for a snack, tomatoes stuffed with chicken or tuna salad for dinner. Caprese salad. I guess my favorite snack is one we ate when I was a kid--sit on the back porch steps with a sun-warmed tomato in one hand, a salt shaker in the other. Or a tomato in each hand. I'm getting hungry.
Some of our tomatoes are knee high and have tiny tomatoes on them already.
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Post by feather on Jun 19, 2020 20:11:51 GMT
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Post by susannah on Jun 19, 2020 20:44:49 GMT
solargeek , I am green with envy! Due to the lack of sun just about everywhere, all I can grow are cherry tomatoes in tubs on the second-story (and therefore deer-proof) deck. Don't get me wrong, sun warmed vine ripened cherry tomatoes are a thing of beauty. But at "tomato time", I miss the garden at my old house - and especially the Mortgage Lifters. Mortgage lifters - my tomatoes that people laughed at their strange shapes, gasped at their size (up to two pounds each, some maybe even larger) and begged for more after they tasted them. I hope you have a very successful tomato year! mogal , you're not the only one who's getting hungry from all the delicious fresh tomato based foods you listed. YES to every single thing you mentioned! I also saw my first baby green tomatoes on my plants recently - this morning in fact. I can't wait for them to be full cherry size and ripe! Last year we bought a bushel of "seconds" tomatoes from a Mennonite farmer at a farm market. Those "seconds" would be considered first quality in our grocery stores, seriously. I only had to toss out one tomato out of the entire bushel, and had to cut bits off two more. Otherwise, they looked perfect and tasted amazing. I was in tomato heaven!
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Post by Skandi on Jun 19, 2020 20:47:18 GMT
420 tomato plants, wowzers. I had 150 last year (all in the greenhouse) and got 200lb of tomatos we're just about getting to the end of the canned ones, but plenty of salsa left still.
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Post by manygoatsnmore on Jun 19, 2020 22:22:07 GMT
Oh, man, I'm drooling here. My tomatoes aren't anywhere near setting fruit, so homegrown maters are still a long way off. I love a tomato sammy with Kraft Thousand Island with Bacon dressing on Sweet Hawaiian bread. And I'll second the tomato in one hand, salt shaker in the other lunch. Or just ripe Sungold cherry tomatoes popped in my mouth while I work in the garden.
Actually, I couldn't find Sungold tomato plants or seed this year, so I'm trying another one that is supposed to be similar...Sunsugar, I think. I'll have to check the tag in the garden to be sure, but I think that's the name.
The cool weather finally seems to have left...80°+ so far today, so my tomatoes might finally take off and grow. I guess I'd better get the rest in the ground! No where near 420 of them, though.😊
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Post by vickilynn on Jun 19, 2020 22:30:48 GMT
Oh, man, I'm drooling here. My tomatoes aren't anywhere near setting fruit, so homegrown maters are still a long way off. I love a tomato sammy with Kraft Thousand Island with Bacon dressing on Sweet Hawaiian bread. And I'll second the tomato in one hand, salt shaker in the other lunch. Or just ripe Sungold cherry tomatoes popped in my mouth while I work in the garden. Actually, I couldn't find Sungold tomato plants or seed this year, so I'm trying another one that is supposed to be similar...Sunsugar, I think. I'll have to check the tag in the garden to be sure, but I think that's the name. The cool weather finally seems to have left...80°+ so far today, so my tomatoes might finally take off and grow. I guess I'd better get the rest in the ground! No where near 420 of them, though.😊 The only difference I can discern between Sungold and Sunsugar is that Sunsugar has a little thicker skin, and the skin doesn’t split as much. |
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Post by susannah on Jun 19, 2020 22:35:27 GMT
manygoatsnmore , this is the first year I'm growing Sungold tomatoes - now I can't wait to try them. And I saw the first little green tomato on one of my sungold plants today!
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Post by vickilynn on Jun 19, 2020 23:14:15 GMT
Sungolds are the best! I grow a lot of them to send with my husband to work for the residents and staff at the nursing facility where he works.
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Post by mogal on Jun 19, 2020 23:46:40 GMT
Uh, ah, Feather. I'm not sure what those plants are but I'm 1000% sure they ain't tomatoes. 1000% and ain't for emphasis. |
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Post by feather on Jun 20, 2020 0:14:00 GMT
Uh, ah, Feather. I'm not sure what those plants are but I'm 1000% sure they ain't tomatoes. 1000% and ain't for emphasis. When my last child was looking at his homework, he had received 110%, and he knew I could help with the math. So he says, how does 110% work? I told him, there is no 110%, 100% is the best anyone can do, the rest is fluff, that the teacher made up. I'm sure I didn't grow up learning about pot, and rarely met people that used any, and the only generation I've noticed is very familiar with it, is the one after me. 420 is the time they meet, the 4/20 is the day they meet, 420 is code for 'want to go smoke some'. Since the police, not all police, some police have ripped out tomato gardens they thought were pot, the 420 tomatoes are especially entertaining. |
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Post by Cabin Fever on Jun 20, 2020 0:22:57 GMT
One o' my favs...
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Post by mogal on Jun 20, 2020 1:06:42 GMT
Uh, ah, Feather. I'm not sure what those plants are but I'm 1000% sure they ain't tomatoes. 1000% and ain't for emphasis. When my last child was looking at his homework, he had received 110%, and he knew I could help with the math. So he says, how does 110% work? I told him, there is no 110%, 100% is the best anyone can do, the rest is fluff, that the teacher made up. I'm sure I didn't grow up learning about pot, and rarely met people that used any, and the only generation I've noticed is very familiar with it, is the one after me. 420 is the time they meet, the 4/20 is the day they meet, 420 is code for 'want to go smoke some'. Since the police, not all police, some police have ripped out tomato gardens they thought were pot, the 420 tomatoes are especially entertaining. I understand the concept of 100% being the whole, there can't be more. I was being silly, trying to emphasize a joke. I'd never heard 420 until this thread. The fall of my freshman year in college 1967, I met a guy who would act odd and say, "Don't pay any attention to me. I'm high." I had not a clue even when another person in the group explained that the guy was smoking pot. Hmmm. The only smoking pot I knew about was oil/fat that got too hot in a pan. I think that was the first time I heard the word marijuana. Not wanting to be painted with the same brush, I found a different group of people quickly. Never smoked a tobacco cigarette much less one made from other leafy matter. |
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Post by feather on Jun 20, 2020 1:12:40 GMT
I understand the concept of 100% being the whole, there can't be more. I was being silly, trying to emphasize a joke. I'd never heard 420 until this thread. The fall of my freshman year in college 1967, I met a guy who would act odd and say, "Don't pay any attention to me. I'm high." I had not a clue even when another person in the group explained that the guy was smoking pot. Hmmm. The only smoking pot I knew about was oil/fat that got too hot in a pan. I think that was the first time I heard the word marijuana. Not wanting to be painted with the same brush, I found a different group of people quickly. Never smoked a tobacco cigarette much less one made from other leafy matter. I know, I just thought it was terrible for a child not to understand 100% is all of it. I understand and enjoy your silliness.
When I was 21, just married, we went to jamaica, and were offered 'ganga'...that was quite a learning curve to realize they could stand in the ocean and sell pot and it was legal to do that, there. In some ways I was almost ready to kiss the pavement in chicago when we got back so I had some sense of standing on solid ground where legal and illegal had a good definition.
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Post by manygoatsnmore on Jun 20, 2020 13:56:52 GMT
Oh, man, I'm drooling here. My tomatoes aren't anywhere near setting fruit, so homegrown maters are still a long way off. I love a tomato sammy with Kraft Thousand Island with Bacon dressing on Sweet Hawaiian bread. And I'll second the tomato in one hand, salt shaker in the other lunch. Or just ripe Sungold cherry tomatoes popped in my mouth while I work in the garden. Actually, I couldn't find Sungold tomato plants or seed this year, so I'm trying another one that is supposed to be similar...Sunsugar, I think. I'll have to check the tag in the garden to be sure, but I think that's the name. The cool weather finally seems to have left...80°+ so far today, so my tomatoes might finally take off and grow. I guess I'd better get the rest in the ground! No where near 420 of them, though.😊 The only difference I can discern between Sungold and Sunsugar is that Sunsugar has a little thicker skin, and the skin doesn’t split as much. That sounds like a plus to me. 😊 |
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Post by solargeek on Jul 16, 2020 15:31:26 GMT
Update today:
Picking everday but today we got our first PEAS (snow peapods). I forgot to plant so they are very late coming.
Pulling all garlic today. Storms coming Saturday and don't want any splitting or waste due to my hoping for bigger bulbs. Bountiful harvest upcoming! Thanks to feather 's generousity with sending me bulbs last year.
Picked 5 giant grocery store bags full of different lettuces (arugula, leaf, and this Johnny's Ovation mix). LOVE this time of year and am super surprised the lettuces didn't bolt.
Filling gallon ziplocs with finely chopped Russian purple kale. Would like 10 frozen. I thought it was escarole (hahaha on me). We freeze them for addition to every recipe in which I can hide Kale since I hate it. I use it in chili, (almost a powder) soups, stews, gravies etc. As long as I can't taste it, I will eat it.
A few cabbages from some store bought seedlings may be ready this weekend. I always buy a few seedlings of most items I plant (not tomatoes this year for the 1st time) so I can compare my hundreds of seedlings with the professionals and get better.
No red tomatoes yet. My hundreds of tomato plants are enjoying the break from the 90F weather that came so early and now will hopefully really produce when it shortly returns. Hope everyone else is enjoying their gardens as much as I am.
I truly believe I see God in my garden every day as beautiful food forms from these tiny seeds, dirt, sun, water and work.
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Post by Melissa on Jul 16, 2020 18:29:02 GMT
solargeek, Sounds awesome! But honestly I can't imagine having to pick that many tomato plants. I have about 5 dozen or so and that keeps me busy! lol
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That's very funny. DS has shown me lots of pictures of that different type of plant with captions of 'still no tomatoes'. 
