Hi one eyed pony - Good looking tomatoes! ;)

But I'm curious. Do you find that using that type of tomato cages upside like in the picture works better?

Dave

Blam! CG,ARGG,BFT,CP and UH.

* Posted by digdirt 6 -7 AR Wed, Aug 6, 08 at 18:31

Hi one eyed pony - Good looking tomatoes! ;)
But I'm curious. Do you find that using that type of tomato cages upside like in the picture works better?

Dave

Thanx! Those cages were a gift, and are too small for indeterminate tomato plants. They are Ideal to use for PEPPER plants. The ANCHO pepper plants are now 3-4 ft & Anaheims are 2-3 ft with tons of heavy weighted peppers. Great pepper crop this year. I will be making my own tomato cages with the 6' SHEEP fence from Home Depot next year.

Here's some AWESOME giant SAN MARZANOS pics, BTW, are sweet and deep RED inside:

Here are a few of mine! Let's see there are Green Copia, Pink Brandywine, Pink Ping Pong, Summer Cider, Arbuznyi, Black Plum.

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This is two harvests, 2 days apart from my 19 containers (no earth boxes yet).
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Lots of cherry types, Supersweet 100, Sun Gold, Yellow Pear, Husky Red Cherry. Others are Siberian, Supertasty, Subarctic Plenty, Roma, Celebrity, Golden Jubilee, Cherokee Purple, Sunmaster, Talladega, and Heatwave
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Clockwise from the bright yellow Golden Jubilee are: Subarctic Plenty, Celebrity, Sunmaster, another Sunmaster, Talladega, Super Tasty, Heatwave and Cherokee Purple in the center. It weighed 14.85 ozs.
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CanÂt wait til this Big Rainbow Megabloom grows up and fills out. Hope it gets to the ripening point.
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And, last but not least, this Supersteak is already bigger than the Cherokee Purple in the third picture above.
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Here are mine.....
Mariana's Peace, Carbon, Paul Robeson, HUMPH, WES, German Red Strawberry, Eva Purple ball, KB a few cherries, and some others :)

From my Balcony Garden

WOW! I had dinner just a couple of hours ago but these photos make me hungry again, YUM! Love seeing all these photos, from the bountiful harvest spreads to the artistic photos. Everything looks so impressive!

sumilea2008, I love your balcony setup.

pony: what's that super-pleated one?

sprtsguy76: what are those reddish ones on the left that come to a point?

kcmo: what's going on with that one tomato? fantastic photoshop skills? looks cool.

Here are a few of mine.
CPs, EGs, Black Trifele, Sungold Cherries

CP

EG

Very nice all!

I'm a new sucker for those emerald green shoulders. On our CPs and Carbons, the taste is good even there. Not something I'm used to.

I don't have anything photo worthy right now. We've had gobs of rain and heat, so we have gobs of splitting. I hate picking them so green. The plants are having fun though and AGG is finally blushing.

A recent storm blew over a heavily laiden, containered, OTV and knocked several off. Several branches and trusses on some of the others have been badly kinked. Thought I had em tied up well enough ... Couldda been worse.

Persimmon, CP, Mortgage Lifter, Black Krim, Sweet 100, Roma and Green Zebra
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Wow, you folks are really harvesting!

Below is my first harvest from Wednesday:
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Mostly Cherry Roma, Snow White Cherry, a couple of pineapple tomatillo, a German Red Strawberry and a token pepper.

Clockwise from top left, four Momotaro, three Prudens Purple, three Goose Creek, some Peacevine Cherry, a couple of figs, some Martino's Roma, a bunch of Black Krim and some New Big Dwarf:

From this balcony garden:

Tomatoes around the perimeter and peppers in the interior. I also have a smaller balcony upstairs with the Black Krim, Momotaro and a few figs.

Finally -here they are!
This is after we have already made salsa, sauce, canned tomatoes anf given bunches away. I don't know which is which but I have Ark Tr. Little Pink, Rutger, Italian Mkt and Manulousia (SP?)
BTW, does anyone know why they crack?
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My Sun Gold Cherries are finally starting to turn orange. I ate these two a few days after the photo was taken, and they were GREAT!

Joytwo1839,
Try not to post two large pictures next to each other, so the page doesn't distort and pull out all the text horizontally. When you create a post, there is a preview page before final posting, so you can see how your creation will look like, and you can make changes to fix it, if you see mistakes like that.
Great tomato display by the way... You must have a lot of friends. :o)

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Yellow Pears in the making

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Sun Gold ripening

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Sun Gold just before being devoured

First non-cherry of the season
Paul Robeson

Seed patten, it was good not great but it was the first from this plant

This is what I have on my counter today:
A bag of romas for the freezer surrounded by (from upper left): Beef Steak, Better Boy, Cherokee Purple, Sweet Million, and a grape variety.

Big Zac Tomato picked 8/11/08 - 30.5 oz.

Nearly two pounds! Nice!

two pounds??!! i see a number 3 up there. anyways, great pics everyone!

1.906 25 pound = 30.5 ounce

Picked most of these today, a couple yesterday:

from 2 of my plants. not sure if that orange one is ripe yet...it's a fake "mr stripey" - "white" ones are snow white cherry...

This is the largest of the first two ripe Carbon tomatoes I have picked so far this summer. Not as black but at 22 oz., larger than I expected.

These were picked today:

1 Jersey Devil - Excellent!
1 Eva Purple Ball
3 San Marzano Regorta
2 Thessaloniki
1 Ramapo
2 Black Krim
1 Beefmaster
1 Sweet Purple Bell Pepper for contrast
2 Costoluto Fiorentino
and ???