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OT: Tomatoes Have Started To Ripen

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El Toro

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Here are some of my tomatoes and a big peach that my wife bought. The small yellow tomato is a Tumbling Tom, small cherry red one is called Sweet Million, large yellow is called Dixie Golden & Big Beef. All plants were grown from seed.
Those are not live cats in the background. Hal

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I have been picking Park's Whoppers since June. I dug a hole in my yard and put some fish heads in the bottom of the hole.The tomato I planted there is 9 feet tall and still bearing.
 
Nice looking Tomatoes. Mine just started to turn off enough for the table and last night a number of deer raided the garden and ate all the turning-red ones, all the green ones and the blossoms for any future tomatoes. By the tracks in the garden (garden wet from rain), they must have had a square dance on my 36 tomatoe plants. They didn't do the sweet corn any favors as well. Worst deer damage I've ever seen in my garden in 42 years.
 
I would like to have a truck load of those fish heads to plow under this Fall. It was cold & wet here in MD in May & June. Now its dry & hot.
Hal
 
Nice tomatoes; sure do look good.

I could eat my weight of Big Beef tomatoes.

Thanks for sharing the photos; wish you could share the tomatoes!
 
I think my tomatoes are going to stay green, they don't seam to even look anywhere near red. Are the small ones called chreey tomates? that is what we call them here in Cal. They grow like weeds on the place, although not many came up this year. Stan
 
I would call them cherry tomatoes & they seem to ripen sooner. I have another cherry tomato called the Chadwick. The Sweet Million & the Chadwick are about the same size. They get to be about the size of a quarter. Hal
 
They make good tomato sandwiches. I have Big Boys, Jet Star, Super Steak, Supersonic & the
Dixie Golden planted too. The Big Beef was the first to ripen of the larger plants. My wife bought a Big Beef last year from Home Depot & planted it in a Topsy Turvy planter & it was loaded. I kept some of the seeds & planted them
back in February along with rest of them. Hal
PS: Here's a pic of that Big Beef last year in that planter. Our sweet peppers have done well too.
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Sure hasn't been the best year for tomatoes here in Indiana. My plants all look great, and have a lot of fruit set, but the super cool temps aren't ripening them any. I've had a couple Roma Grape come in, and about 100 set on two plants, should be good in a few more weeks. Sweet corn is looking good, Green, Serrano, Jalepeno, Banana peppers are good. Cucumbers, cantelope, and watermelon are ok.

Aren't you in KS Hal? Been pretty warm there hasn't it?
 
I'm in northeastern MD near the PA & Delaware borders. We haven't had very many hots days so far. We did turn on the AC on Wednesday since the humidity is up. Hal
PS: My late dad was from western IN near the IL border.
 
Must've confused you with someone else. I'm actually coming your way weekend after this, making some deliveries in NJ/PA/MA, and a pick-up in DC.

I've only had the AC on 2 days this whole summer, and that was back in late May. If this is Global Warming, I'm liking it.

Good luck with the garden!

Brian
 
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