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Mon, Aug 5, 13 at 19:05
| Picked these 3 off of 1 plant today. It is planted in my very small hoophouse, and is the 5th I've picked thus far. The Brandy in my outside garden only has one tomato just now ripening. Been a cold, late year for tomatoes. Oh - and this is just Pink Brandywine from Fedco. |
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| I've got tomato envy ;-) I planted Sudduth from Fedco (among others) in early June and don't even have full-sized fruit yet. I keep thinking the Cosmonaut Volkov, some Krim, and the Gardener's Delight shouldbe ripening any day since they look full-sized (and I've picked 3 GD), Grandma Mary's might be close, but nothing is showing any color and they're in full sun. |
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| ajsmama, when do you start your tomatoes? Here in Chicago zone 5 as well, we can ¨safely¨ plant on Memorial day but I have found over the years that plants put in the garden earlier will do much better. Most years it is safe for me to plant out around May 15. |
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| I usually start in mid-late March and then set them out sometime the last week of May (23-28) but this year May was very dry, cold, and it was hard to harden them off - there were a couple of times I had to cover the strawberry bed b/c they were flowering but it was going to be below 40! That last week we had a lot of rain and 3 days around 90 so I put them out June 2-17 (the very last ones, Mark Twain and Latah) in between rain storms. All of June was very wet (about 1 ft) and the ones in the main garden turned purple and stalled, I replaced almost all the SuperSweet 100 and Rose de Berne, half the Gardeners Delight. The "determinate hybrids" from Burpee planted in the house garden never looked as bad (purple) but grew very slowly and are now about 4ft tall, producing many more tomatoes than the heirlooms but none are ripening - and 1 was supposed to be 49 DTM (put in 6/2)! My neighbor put hers in around Mother's Day but hasn't gotten any ripe ones yet either. |
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