my tomatoes are begining to ripen

[commander bunnypants]

Good eats are acoming

DDQM

[Catfight]

1. sweet! tomato's

[sus]

2. my first tomato dropped from the vine just yesterday. yummmm.

okay. it didn't drop. i ripped it off and bit into its juicy flesh.

[lpbk2713]

3. Mine are done for.

The Central Florida heat has gotten to them. I got about four dozen out of eight plants. Cherry 100, Roma, and Big Beef.

[bearfan454]

4. Mine are just starting to get the yellow flowers.

I planted really late this year because of all the rain. I have Early Girl, 4th of July, Southern Star, bush Goliath, Health Kick, and a couple other brands I don't usually use. Early Girl outdoes them all here in the soil I have in Williamson County Tx. If you pinch off all the yellow flowers until the plant gets bigger you get better yields. I guess 400 lbs of manure, slow release nitrogen pellets, and Sam's tomato food once a week doesn't hurt either, huh ?







Hot banana peppers make the best salsa too. I pinch the flowers off also until they are at least a foot and a half tall. The trick on both of these plants I have found out is to bury the entire plant except for about 3 or 4 inches of the top. And I buy the plants that are already 2 feet tall. They are 3 bucks each, but so what I get shitloads of tomatoes and peppers.

[tandot]

5. I got a bunch of cherry tomatoes on two tomato plants

I already harvested two...

fresh tomatoes, fresh basil, mozzarella, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt & pepper...I can't wait...