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OT. . . Tomatoes, start to end? (Warning Huge file

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PhilcaseinWPa

10-13-2006 08:14:58

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Maybe we dodged the frost / freeze bullet last night so the tomatoe harvest may continue (I'm not sure if that is good or bad). Anyway for the fun of it I decided to post a history of the crop up til I got too busy to take more pictures.

It began Dec 24th. Weather turned warm so I decided a nice thing to do on Christmas eve was to recover the greenhouse.
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Seeding the plugs in early March
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Starting to sprout!!

They're growing (these are actually peppers)
Looking good.

Disking the ground and teaching a neighbor boy to drive (he'd paid me for this).

Ready to plant.

Wife and sister planting on the water wheel planter. (actually peppers again)

Dirty picture of my wife errrr no picture of my dirty wife errrr no well anyway you get muddy on the transplanter.
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All in!!

Stakes and first srting.

Closeup of first string

Hurry up and ripen!!!

Too busy to take any more pictures
Sorry this was such a big file for you guys on dialup.
Phil

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Markies

10-13-2006 14:57:50

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Re: OT. . . Tomatoes, start to end? (Warning Huge in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 10-13-2006 08:14:58

Looks like a ton of work...how many acres and when all the dust is settled, do you make much out of it? To whom do you sell?

Thanks!

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PHILCASE

10-15-2006 10:15:38

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Re: OT. . . Tomatoes, start to end? (Warning Huge in reply to Markies, 10-13-2006 14:57:50

about 1 acre total of tomatoes. ~3000 plants rows are 6' on center and plants are 2' apart in the row.
We sell almost entirely retail at our own farm and also a 3 farmers' markets. Make money as long as you don't consider your time worth a whole lot. We got $1.25 or more / lb all summer. The retail market is the only way I can make any money on this farm.

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Gerald J.

10-13-2006 14:05:21

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Re: OT. . . Tomatoes, start to end? (Warning Huge in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 10-13-2006 08:14:58

It would have been nice for those of us with dial up to have shrunken the pictures before uploading them. The display software crunched them down to 626 by 436 or something like that so the 1538 x 1228 file sizes took all afternoon to download with out viewer benefit.

I see that water wheel planter accomplishes what I was thinking I'd need three separate mechanical arms and a fancy ground drive to accomplish. Is it commercial?

As for the wife, she's definitely a "keeper."

Gerald J.

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Bill in NY

10-13-2006 12:31:49

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Re: OT. . . Tomatoes, start to end? (Warning Huge in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 10-13-2006 08:14:58

What else do you grow besides tomatoes and peppers and where do you sell your produce,(farmers market,roadside stand,wholesale)? Great pictures,Its nice to have a wife who's not afraid to get dirty.

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neblinc

10-13-2006 10:04:35

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Re: OT. . . Tomatoes, start to end? (Warning Huge in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 10-13-2006 08:14:58

Cool Pics!
So that machine punches holes in the plastic so you can plant the seedlings?
How fast do you go. walking speed or slower?

Randy

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PhilcaseinWPa

10-13-2006 10:23:18

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Re: OT. . . Tomatoes, start to end? (Warning Huge in reply to neblinc, 10-13-2006 10:04:35

slower
With the double row of peppers it is hard for the planters to keep up. I am pulling it with a CaseIH 885 in low range, 1st gear, TA on and idiling. The peppers are spaced 17" apart in each of the double rows and offset. Water is dumped into the wheel and out the punch hole and so you are pushing the plants into mud. If the soil is right the water and mud will cover the plug and the plant will be set. Sometimes you have to go back and put some dirt around the root ball. If the plastic isn't tight or it gets too windy we throw some dirt on top of the plastic to hold it down.

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A hydro transmission would be nice.

Phil

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Jimmy King

10-13-2006 11:13:42

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Re: OT. . . Tomatoes, start to end? (Warning Huge in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 10-13-2006 10:23:18

You need a creeper gear in your tractor.

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PhilcaseinWPa

10-13-2006 12:03:40

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Re: OT. . . Tomatoes, start to end? (Warning Huge in reply to Jimmy King, 10-13-2006 11:13:42

You are right, or a hydro transmission. I went to look at 2 different ones, a Hydro70 and a 656Hydro. both were gas which sort of put me off and on top of that neither one would start. Was that a sign or what? So we struggle along with the 885 as slow as we can and go back and set the ones we miss by hand. I"m hardly big enough to justify another tractor but still looking.
Phil

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Jimmy King

10-13-2006 12:39:26

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Re: OT. . . Tomatoes, start to end? (Warning Huge in reply to PhilcaseinWPa, 10-13-2006 12:03:40

I had a second cousin that lived up the road from me he had a35 hp White with a creeper you could get on your hands and knees and run off and leave it.

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