Pretty little heart has set on a midnight sun PL F3. Now if it still a bicoulour I will call this one a success.
61 days from seeding on March 26.
All of the plants are out in the great outdoors in their final places ex ept for one of each I will grow in the greenhouse as insurance against some catastrophe with the outdoor ones.

Pretty pleased so far with the "children". all are blooming.
KarenO

Karen, I have just read this thread with great interest and admiration for your planning and execution of this project. Your process of growing big vigorous, even blooming transplants is in total agreement with my methods (but your set up looks a lot neater and more organized than mine!) to allow us Northerners to grow the mid and late season varieties, at least in a good year. Wish my back was 20 years younger and that I had more space - I have learned so much on Tomatoville, especially by posters such as yourself and would love to do a project such as yours. Kudos! Hope your beginner's luck continues and they stabilize quickly.

By the way, "your" Margaret Curtain and Zena's Gift were sturdy and lovely seedlings and the stocky plants are finally in the ground. I look forward to enjoying them in a couple of months.

Awesome earliness, Karen! Can't wait to grow this one in Newfoundland. :yes:

Look at that beautiful perfect little heart!!!:D

Good start of the season, Karen!

Thank you Wlla, I am so looking forward to sending out some stable seed to you guys! I will be interested in what you think of the Zena's gift and I am loving the plants I got from all those dwarf varieties you sent to me!. Wherowikai (sp)? has set fruit for me already! I have a little "forest" of dwarf plants in pots growing in the backyard and they are such pretty plants, can't wait to taste them too.
Happy growing
Karen

[QUOTE=salix;475912]Karen, I have just read this thread with great interest and admiration for your planning and execution of this project. Your process of growing big vigorous, even blooming transplants is in total agreement with my methods (but your set up looks a lot neater and more organized than mine!) to allow us Northerners to grow the mid and late season varieties, at least in a good year. Wish my back was 20 years younger and that I had more space - I have learned so much on Tomatoville, especially by posters such as yourself and would love to do a project such as yours. Kudos! Hope your beginner's luck continues and they stabilize quickly.

By the way, "your" Margaret Curtain and Zena's Gift were sturdy and lovely seedlings and the stocky plants are finally in the ground. I look forward to enjoying them in a couple of months.[/QUOTE]

oh "mein gott" this is an awesome discussion .......I can now consider for next year

some of these notions / methods ...... and expand the regular varieties available to even late Season ...ah ha .

As I have been a seedling to outdoor grower only ..... the Big starters from the green house etc.

June 2. All of the plants are blooming and setting fruit. this fruit is the biggest so far, that same midnight sun as above. Happy to be getting some rain here and there, it was very dry for a while
KarenO

Look how much fruit size increased in only 6 days. Amazing.

Just beautiful! How many plants do you have this year?

[QUOTE=RobinB;477532]Just beautiful! How many plants do you have this year?[/QUOTE]

In total? hmmm
36 (12 each) of the F3's and then about another 30 or so assorted dwarfs and others scattered about here and there.
Karen O

Plants are big and doing well so far. As they set fruit I'm happy to see the same shapes as last year. A pointed heart on midnight sun, a smooth rounded blunt heart on Polaris and a ridged rounded heart on tundra. June 13

Midnight sun

Polaris

Tundra

Looking fantastic - that's really nice growth on the Midnight Sun, Karen. And a beautiful shape. It's cool that all three have distinctive heart shapes.8-)

Beautiful tomatoes, Karen. I bet they will taste great too. Nice job, girl.

Karen- gorgeous, just gorgeous! You are the " bomb diggity"!;)

They look super awesome!!

Thanks guys, the days seem to be crawling by, so anxious as I am to see a ripe one. I need to keep reminding myself that it's only June 14, it's only June 14, it's only June 14....
:)
Impatient to see if the colours are the same, especially the bicolour.
KarenO

KarenO, I'm wondering do you feed the plants while they are growing their fruit? If so, what ferts do you favour? That's a whopper of a fruit for couple weeks' growth!!! :yes:
Haha, only June 14 - I have a scrawny little cherry that looks like it's blushing. I know it''s a trick of the light, but I keep gawking at it....:wait::twisted:

MG all purpose while seedlings in pots.
Once in the ground, I'm organic I use lots of Compost, bit of MgSO4 and either MG organic granular fert or a product I like called "better than bonemeal" by president's choice available at superstore.
KO
Manure on the beds in the fall only. sits over winter
KarenO

Growing... June 21, the first day of summer. Lots of single digit nights over the past 4 weeks or I think they would be setting fruit better. Not bad for June though up here.

Beautiful view!

That's a great spot, Karen. Looks very sheltered.

It's very pleasing to see tomatoes outdoors with no protection or special gear, in a place that looks (a bit) like home. :) (If it was really home, it would look windy!8-))

[QUOTE=efisakov;482810]Beautiful view![/QUOTE]

Agreed!

Windy yes indeed, that nice row of spruce trees is on the south side of the garden, storms and the winds that come with them typically approach from th e north and west here. It's a good test out there, the ones in my yard are much more sheltered. If a tomato can make it out in the open garden in zone 3, it's a real Tough tomato
K

The Pix are most inspiring....and make me wish I could annex another Lot !

[QUOTE=BlackBear;483780]The Pix are most inspiring....and make me wish I could annex another Lot ![/QUOTE]
Hiya, this is a plot I rent in a community garden. Maybe there is one in Campbell River? Can never have too much garden space
KO

[QUOTE=KarenO;484100]Hiya, this is a plot I rent in a community garden. Maybe there is one in Campbell River? Can never have too much garden space
KO[/QUOTE]
It most certainly is coming to that !....faster than I imagined ..ha ha ha

I will have to do more research on this for sure here ....


anyway ....absolute super PL Work !