~ June 14th Big Beef:

I posted this question on the previous part 6 of this thread but my entry was the last posting so i thought of re-posting it on the thread's part 7 entry, hope somebody could help...

"I have 12 tomatoes in the ground: opalka, yellow pear, chocolate cherry, sweet 100, cherokee chocolate, kbx, cowlick's brandywine, big zac, box car willie, dr wyche's yellow, omar's lebanese and nar. as you can see, i've placed them in cages... do i still have to provide stakes for them or is the cage enough as a support? if i do have to provide a stake, which variety should i stake, or do i have to stake all of them? it'd be nice to know this early so i could provide the necessary stake support before they become bigger. also, which ones usually goes higher than 5'? i know yellow pear, chocolate cherry and sweet 100 does... how about the others? i only have a 5' cage, do i have to top them off when the time comes? thanks for any advice you can give, i'd greatly appreciate it."

thanks again for any help...

My tomatoes in SWC buckets are really putting on size, and there's lots of fruitset including Stupice, Bloody Butcher, Sungold, SuperSweet100, Yellow Pear, Black Cherry, Polish Dwarf and the mutant Potato Leaf Early Girl:
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Here in IL, I have fruit set!

First, the bucket garden - there are 23 tomatoes in total here, although a few are cut off in this picture.

Here are some baby Japanese Black Triefle:

Here is Amish Paste:

Black from Tula:

and the very beginnings of some Opalka:

Here are some pictures as of today 6/19. The plants have been in the ground for about 4 weeks.

First try with Earthtainers. Kosovo plants on the left and Opalka plants on the right.

Flower cluster on a Matina plant. Hopefully those fruit set and the blossoms don't just drop.

Indian Stripe has a bunch of flowers.

Fruit set on NAR.

Finally got pictures of all four types with fruit:

Roma San Marzano

Golden Rave

New Girl

Sweet Million

I was able to take this photo tonight of my harvest.
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When I started the season I had no idea what an heirloom was, and I had only transplanted 4 tomato plants the previous year. I am very satisfied with how this year has turned out. I am growing in a humid, hot, bug and disease infested area, plus I choose to grow organic. My losses have been very little. I don't know how much longer I will get to harvest, but I am very thankful for what I have been able to get. I wish everyone a harvest you can be happy with and enjoy.

A couple from last night taken with my cell phone...

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Brandywine Sudduths (not bad production so far, they're earlier than the Aunt Gerties Gold)

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Sungold...a very very small fraction of 2 plants which are gargantuan already and probably have more than 200 flowers/fruit set.
(yes that's a "no roundup please" sign since it's in a community garden with uneducated growers who don't know about herbicide drift...)

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First butternut squash, so far I have 6 or 7 fruit set which is much better production than I expected and it's only late June.

My tomatoes are doing sooooo much better than last year (this is my second year (SFG)) that I wanted to share some pics too.

San Marzano

Beefsteak

Larger Beefsteak

Let's try this, Black Krim

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BiggJoe:

Try typing this

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The quotes are just normal. My image editing program put a spin on the one on the left side. You are almost there.

here's your pic biggjoe

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black krim

Kind of small..do you have the full sized version?

lets see if this works. picked this today.

-- June 21st ~ teeny Black Krims ripening, first fruits from the plant:

-- And then a couple days later....tiny, but still tasty!:

Black cherry

Black Cherry

Tomato berry - wow!

The next pictures I like to call "What was I thinking planting tomatoes in my 8'tall and 8' wide hoophouse???"

There used to be a path between the plants.

Bloody Butchers are starting to ripen in numbers:
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Here's the fruit on an unknown PL (was supposed to be Early Girl). It looks kind of heart shaped, the upper fruit are more round:

In ground tomato patches look good, expecting fruitset soon:
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My SWC Buckets are also doing well and drawing a lot of attention on the street:
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The Sungold in my SWC prototype with shutoff valve is doing really well, but I really need to get the mulch cover on. Rattail radish in middle is making lots of tasty pods:
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I segregated this Supersweet100 to the Cucumber row due to suspected Early Blight, but it seems OK:
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Tomatoes in 18 gallon SWCs are doing OK, but seem to be more leggy than their inground counterparts. They went in a little later and may no be getting as much sun:
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I got lucky this year somehow. Too many Amana orange and a satisfactory # of Brandywine OTV. '1884' had some uneven ripening problems but the extended cold period this past winter stunted the plants initial green stage. I was figuring really pushing it towards July but the plants kicked in right to the wire with the tomatoes getting large enough before ripening. Also, very little problems with insects this year so perhaps they got a late start as well. Plants reached excess of 8ft, with many tomatoes exceeding 1lb each and just as pretty as a picture. Keeping the earthtainer containers fully hydrated at all times, seems to have helped avoid cracking.

Amana Orange-Mid-Late May
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Here is a ripe Amana. People at work raved about these for a salad tomato.
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THe potato leafed Brandywine OTV
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A ripe and sliced Brandywine. If I could grow only one tomato, this one would have to be it. Talk about the best tomato sandwiches or just as it sits in the picture and all nearly perfect fruits of consistent upper quality. My neighbor, an elderly gentleman, swears this is one of the best he has ever eaten. You'd have to do some serious side by
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Hi flgrower, try the HTML Code, rather than the IMG Code. On Photobucket.com, the HTML Code is the third one listed under each picture.

It is June 27 and all is well with my tomato wall! The ripe cherry tomatoes and other small tomatoes are coming in now yay!!!

Juane Flamme last night:

Hit up the related link for more pictures and kinda a timeline of how things have gone. I am very happy with my first try at growing 'maters!

Juane Flamme today (with a couple missing. They were delicious ;):

I think these reaching the deck are a reasonable goal for this season:

Melons are trying to take over my Husky Cherry tomatoes:

Another view of the main patch:

Hiding behind "The Wall:"

Here is a link that might be useful: Garden 2010 progression.

Not quite there yet but on my way to a decent harvest of Tomatoes and Hot Peppers. LOL I still can not figure out how to post pics directly.

Here is a link that might be useful: 6/27/10

Not quite there yet but on my way to a decent harvest of Tomatoes and Hot Peppers. LOL I still can not figure out how to post pics directly.

Here is the website I use. I replace the link in the left box with the link to your picture. Then widdle away at the text until when I press 'edit and click me' that just the picture shows up on the right side. If the help provided by the original poster doesn't help maybe the website will. :)

Here is a link that might be useful: Picture Editor

Here are some pics of my tomatoes from June 19 2010.
Fireworks

Japanese Black Trifele

Opalka

Persimmon

Silvery Fir

Borgo Cellano

Not a blusher to be found at this point.
Karen

I spent some time reorganizing the tomatoes - I realized I had about 5 that were getting very little sun, do to an overhang. Plus, this new lay out gives me much better access.

Here's another view - sadly, in front is an all but dead Paul Robeson. It ended up with WAY too much water, and it was a plant under the overhang. I think it got a lot of water off the roof, and then I was being a dork and watering it even more. I drilled lots of holes in the side of the container, but the darn thing just isn't draining. Last night, as a last ditch effort, I stirred up the dirt as much as I could in the container.

My BER probably on my Stupice seems to be over, thanks to fertilizing and a water meter. Sorry that the only thing out of focus in this pic are the darn tomatoes. :) The plant is totally covered right now.

The Sun Gold I found on craigslist is now a mini jungle, full of these:

Last, but not least, Zogola - the fruit is so pretty and shiny!

Bush Goliath F2

Early Girl Tomato that is producing great....

My plants looked pretty sickly when I put them in May 21st

Forty days later, my EarthTainer plants will soon spill over the top ring of upside down tomato cages zip tied on top of two cages per Tainer stuck in the potting mix. Should I prune out some of this jungle? 31 gallons of Mircle Grow Potting Mix (not potting soil) in each container mixed with 3 cups dolomite lime, 1 cup epsom salts, 2 cups Tomato Tone, 2 cups kelp meal and 2 cups earthworm castings, what some might consider egregious overkill in the fertilizer department and I usually wind up killing everything with kindness. Lucky me the tomatoes will tolerate it

Four EarthTainers jammed together in one of the few areas in my tiny garden that gets full sun. Though the one broad side of each Tainer and the eight plants in them are without sun on that side due to the proximity of the Tainers, each plant is loaded with flowers and marble size tomatoes.

Park's "Whopper", listed as 72 days to harvest, after just 40 days. It beats to harvest even Early Girl listed as 59 days to harvest.

Hello everybody.
I simply can not get enough of your pictures. Enjoy every single one. Keep posting them. Here are some of mine:
My husband worked on this project for supporting our tomato and I am very proud of him and how well he did it.
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Beefsteak
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Black from Tula
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Cherokee Purple
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Gardener's Delight Cherry
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Green Zebra
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My organic heirloom mix. The seeds were mixed so it will be surprise. :)
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Old German
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Roma
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Stupice
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Warren's Yellow Cherry
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White Wonder
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I hardly wait to bite into any of these.
Vesna

Hello everybody.
I simply can not get enough of your pictures. Enjoy every single one. Keep posting them. Here are some of mine:
My husband worked on this project for supporting our tomato and I am very proud of him and how well he did it.

Black from Tula

Gardener's Delight Cherry

My organic heirloom mix. The seeds were mixed so it will be surprise. :)

Old German

White Wonder

Still some lingering septoria issues, but overall the cherry toms (sweet 100, Gardener's Delight) are doing fine.

Now it's grapes v. tomatoes v. fence

A more recent pic of the Early Girl grown 100% organics. I did neglect feeding it. I could only imagine what it would of looked like if I was more on top of my feeding schedule.

This is my first year growing tomatoes (or any veggies tbh), and so far so good, I reckon. None ripe yet, but growing big and good so far.

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This is a variety by Suntory called "Rosso Rosso", allegedly. Those are the two biggest ones, about the size of my fist. Several fruits on that plant of varying sizes.

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I bought the Rosso Rosso and this as transplants from the local garden center. This one was just labelled "tomato", was 68yen (about 77 cents US). So I dunno what variety it is. Nothing exotic, I reckon! It started off pretty sickly and I almost pulled it out and replaced it, but it's perked up quite well, and is like, 6 feet tall now, soooo :D

I'm really excited for them to start ripening.

........... those pictures did work, for like, half an hour -_- now I look like a dunce :one more time: The Rosso Rosso

The "tomato":

Yesterday's harvest of Bloody Butcher, Sungold, Mini Bell Pepper, and Stupice:
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Stupice plants are loaded with fruit:
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So is this Sungold:
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This Polish Dwarf needed a cage:
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The first blush on this unknown Potato Leaf plant from Early Girl seed:
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Early Girl fused-blossom fruit (no jokes please):
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Got some nice Black Beauty Eggplant fruit forming:
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Some Fairy Tale Eggplant should be ready soon:
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Trinity Bell Pepper is kind of small, but very early:
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Orange Sweet Crunch Peppers are starting to turn:
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This OP Ramapo got broken in half when I first transplanted a couple weeks ago. This is the bottom half that had no leaves after the break, just roots and a couple inches of stem. The top has also rooted:
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Tomato Patch #1 is growing great and all plants have set fruit:
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Tomato Patch #2 is catching up and most plants have set fruit:
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Tomatoes in 18 gallon SWCs seem less robust than their in-ground counterparts, but most have set fruit. I've moved them out in front to get more sun:
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My Bucket SWCs continue to do well, and I had to add second cages to some. I've received some questions about the buckets and will try to get some more info up in the forum soon:

Is it time for part 8 yet?

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What happened to Part 8 of this series? Lovely pics so far.

After a rocky start to the season, here's my first harvest. Woo hoo!!!

hey nyisle18: you're doing it right! very nice.
these pix are all great. some plants are flat-out amazing in size and vigor.

These are mostly RossoRosso (since they all matured quite a bit earlier). The one on the bottom left is the aforementioned "tomato", whatever it is. None of them have turned red, but rather pastel pinky orange. Not sure if it's the heat or the variety. (shrug)

The tiny RossoRosso are from the same plant as the giant top-left RossoRosso. Not sure why they're so small, but that's just the lowest branch. All the rest have big normal sized tomatoes (shrug). They're yummy though :D

Here are pics of my tomatoes as of 7/27
Tomato, Burpee's Big Boy Hybrid
& Tomato, Super Sweet 100 Hybrid

only picked 2 of the super sweet 100 thus far

Growing Goldman's Italian American for the 1st time this year and so far it is not disappointing! Can't wait to taste one!

Hi! I hope everyone is doing well!

My container garden has been extremely productive! July has overwhelmed me with tomatoes all month longÂ.so much that I canÂt keep up anymoreÂitÂs just pound after pound of never-ending tomatoes, LOL!

Still getting only 4.5 hours of sun, which will start waning soonÂHopefully that will slow them down!

I have lots of pics, but havenÂt had a chance to post them. So for now, hereÂs German Black on a BLT:

~Caroline

Yes! I can finally post a pic of my tomatoes! I've had some cherries for a while now, today's first time I've been able to have more than one or two from a plant! I don't know what cherries they are, but they're not bad. =) The yellow ones were sweeter, and I *think* they're Yellow Lollipops, though I can't be sure.

Some of this weeks' harvest:
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Had to pick a bunch of blushers today to avoid cracking from the rain:
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Tomato Patch #1 with Rose, Mr. Stripey, and Big Boy in front:
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Tomato Patch #2 with just installed 'anti-groundhog' fencing. Supersweet100 on right is over 9.5 ft tall:
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Some Big Boy Tomatoes:
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I had to cluster some of the 18 gallon SWCs and tie cages together for support:
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Some of my SWC Tomato Buckets from 7-29:
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Nice looking plants and harvest, Ferret. How much pruning did you do on your Supersweet?

I only prune the lower leaves, or any diseased leaves.

A few of my tomatoes this year. Mostly black krims, but also Aunt Ruby's German Green, Russian Persimmon, black cherry, and Peruvian Bush Cherry. I have some great white and hillbilly tomatoes almost ready too!

A few more pictures of my tomatoes and other veggies:

Great White (biggest tomato I grew so far):

Tomatoes and other veggies: