Here in California its been raining like crazy. I have some tomatoes plants in totes and some in the ground.

Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Update

This is my first year starting from seed and all my tomatoes are varieties I haven't grown before.
Bloody Butcher
SunGold F1
Yellow Submarine
Red Barn
Stump of The World
Hege German Pink
Tidwell German Pink
Black From Tula

Part 2, I have to toss a pic out there. ;-) These are my cherry tomato seedlings. Placero, Chadwick Cherry & Sungold Select II below. My experiments have left me with half healthy paste & slicing tomatoes, so may have to start those over. :( At least I learned to frickin not use floating pellet trays ever again! lol...

- Steve

Tomatoes N Peppers

Kamo EggPlant

I don't have pictures of seedlings but I do have some pictures of the tomatoes we planted out on March 20th. They are inside my big high tunnel, inside a low tunnel with two layers of row cover and then the two rows are covered with an old piece of 6 mil greenhouse plastic. I have added 2 liter bottles of water to capture heat. Despite the outside temperatures being in the high 20's, under all the cover, it has stayed 45-50 plus degrees at night. During the day, if the sun would shine, it will warm up nicely.

Big Hoop House
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Low Tunnels inside big Hoop House
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Tomatoes under cover
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I am planting out another 70 this weekend and another 70 the week after that.

Jay

Early harvest for zone 5 is a go! Great Job

George

The jungle in the cellar. First flower for tomatoe on Memorial Day.

Regards to all from West Caldwell, New Jersey
Readheads (Tom)

Jay, you have an awesome hoop house.

Everyone has great plants. Here are a few of mine. I will be picking
one to plant out early, first week of April, probably Eva Purple Ball.

The main season:

Indian Stripe
Cherokee Purple
Neves Azoran Red
Kosovo
Yasha Yugoslavian
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Olena's Ukranian
Brad's Blackheart
Black Krim
Berkeley Tie Dye
Persimmon
Dogma's Perfection

Some of the early varieties planted about two weeks before the undercover ones, but falling behind on growth...

Moskovic
Bloody Butcher
Stupice
Huang Se Chieh

I just started mine a week and a half ago never posted a picture on here so this is a test...Ya it worked

I put mine under lights 8 hours and rotate 3 trays and the other time they are by a window also I just turned on the fan today never tried that before.

I've got them going in my garage right now where it's 55-60 since the weather turned cold here in charleston. I think you can see all my labels. I have 2 cukes and a Bhut pepper in there too. I also have an oscillating fan on them 24/7 in order to get them used to flowing air.

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I finally had a chance to take some more pictures of my grow shelves. There are four shelves, each hold 8 1020 trays for a total of 32 trays.

If I am seeding 50's or 72's plug trays, I can get a lot of seedlings in a small area, over 2,000! It is usually closer to 1,000 since I don't always seed directly into 72's.

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Tomatoes planting out in the high tunnels this weekend.

Broccoli and Cauliflower to go out this weekend too.

Tomatoes to transplant into 2401's and 4 packs for sale

Later peppers and tomatoes for sale

Peppers to go out next week

wow, I am jealous of all those tomatoes! I hope I get some this year. Maybe my worm poop will help? Last year by the time my tomatoes got going the summer was over and I only got a few good ones.

I am hoping this year is different.
Karen

I hope I did it correct. I have almost 15 different kind this year, woohoooo!

I guess link is better for me:)

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I have an accidental overload of Everglades seedlings. If someone doesn't take some, about half will be lost.

Here are todays pics.

My cherry tomato seedlings after about 6 weeks from seed in dirt. 4 of each of Chadwick Cherry, Chocolate Cherry & Sungold Select II.

- Steve

Here is a link that might be useful: Steve's Garden

I'm pretty jealous... here in Z5.

Here's my pics: (FINALLY) :)

I wanted to thank those of you who sent seed. Much appreciated.

Day 20. Still a stragler or 2 sprouting but most are 2+" with some having their 6th set of true leaves and the cotelydons are starting to brown. I also have 66 tomatoes all together.

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well they are coming along nicely. April 5

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Lookin good, catman!

Here is a link to my bucket garden photos on facebook. Enjoy.

Here is a link that might be useful: Bucket Garden 2011

tom8olvr, I see you ordered from the sample seed shop. I
ordered Grapette F1 also. Will be in my garden this year.

oh wow, some of you are growing so many!!! I wish I had that much room! :D

I am going to post some pics..but just the tomatoes themselves... my plants have been leafmined like crazy and the foliage looks so very ugly to take a picture of the full plant... :(

the Fargo tomatoes:

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the Homestead 24 tomatoes (one plant's initial tomatoes all got BER but I flooded the pot one day hoping I had maybe over-fertilized and could dilute it and the rest of the tomatoes look ok now:

Boo to the BER!!

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All your tomatos look great, finally got around to picking up shop lights to get grow table going, unfortanatly to late to get tomatos growing. But i will get other things planted inside becuase the darn squirrls and prarie dogs or simular type animals ate most of the seed I planted last year, so figured id get them started indoors 1st. tom8olvr, do you think its to early to put tomato plants into garden right now? I was thinking good tomato cages with plastic wrapped around lower half. What do you all think. Thanks Mark

Here are my eggplants, peppers, and early tomatoes. I'm about ready to start potting up:

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These are my first ever tomatoes from seed and I feel like a proud Papa. I have 24 plants; Early Girl, Pruden's Purple, Stump of the World, Rendaldo, Sabre and Purple Russian. Seeds sown March 11th, so a month old. I wont be able to plant them out for at least another month, so hopefully they will continue to be happy under the lights.

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some of my cold weather veg hardening off on the porch on a rainy day

Well I noticed my first flower buds today. That leaf damage was caused last week when it dropped down to 33F and they were left out (I wasn't home).. didn't do them any good at all.

Coming along nicely, all! =) Mine are starting to take off & get wee lil bud sets. Yay!!!

These are some of my cherry tomatoes. I have more cherry tomatoes & some slightly wee seedlings of Amish Paste, San Marzano Lungo #2 & Rutgers that I had to reseed about 2 weeks ago due to them getting destroyed when I moved...

Happy Gardening, all!

- Steve

Here is a link that might be useful: Steve's Garden

These are my tomato plant the last week in Feb. They are
now in the garden and are over 3 feet tall. just practicing
posting photos - john

trying to upload one more time...

Aloha,

Week 4 in a Earthtainer. Zone 9. Comments please. What wrong with these tomatoes?

Before the Hornworms.

Thanks to whoever invented tomatoes. Love this forum.

I am still really jealous of all of your photos!!
I wintersowed most of my tomatoes. I have also just sowed 2 types under lights. big sun gold select
and alpine. I usually don't do well with indoor sowing but I am trying!!

Karen

My Sungold Select II, Chadwick & Chocolate Cherry mater seedlings. Starting to take off, grow buds, etc.. This weather needs to get warm & stay that way so they can go outside. Definitely ready for it! =)

Looking good everyone.... and it's time for part 3