Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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July 26, 2019 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2012
Location: massachusetts
Posts: 1,710
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62 days until frost
Summer is but a blink up here.
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July 26, 2019 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Tomato Cornhole
Posts: 2,550
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That is a blink, I have double that here in Lafayette La.
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July 26, 2019 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Maine, 4b
Posts: 73
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Really? Got to start talking about that already.....
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Ken Last edited by asaump; July 26, 2019 at 04:10 PM. |
July 26, 2019 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: connecticut,usa
Posts: 1,150
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I never even make that.
if I have plants in the garden in September I am doing good. I lost plants already to disease. |
July 26, 2019 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MA
Posts: 4,966
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That's only a reasonable estimate. The first frost could be much later (and we don't want to think about the other end of the spectrum). I'm also in Massachusetts. I really don't think that much about the first frost, because most tomato varieties, in my garden, get to be tasting fairly skunky before that first frost. Late in the year, If I slice open a beefsteak and the outer wall of flesh is about 1/16 of an inch thick (it's usually 1/4"+ thick in mid-summer), it's a virtual assurance of it being a spitter. October 1st is usually about the end of the season for good tasting tomatoes, with the frost not too far behind that. But, one year I picked my last tomato on November 19th with the first frost predicted the next day (and a very hard frost happened). A few days later the tomato was fully ripe, and surprisingly it tasted very good. |
July 26, 2019 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 1,460
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73 days for me, but I like to focus on the positive. That means in an average year I still have time to get fully ripe tomatoes from flowers that haven't even formed yet. I have not yet gotten my first ripe tomato, so talking about the end being near is a little too debbie downer for me. I am going to focus on all those tomatoes that haven't even formed yet.
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July 26, 2019 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
Posts: 6,794
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The little fruits that are forming here now will be ripe without a doubt in about 45 days. True, that's already September. Anybody notice how the years whiz by the older you get the faster they go.. only blink and it'll be spring again with the garlic coming up...
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July 29, 2019 | #8 |
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Finland, EU
Posts: 2,550
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My concern isn't even those green fruits and their ripening .. But what is annoying is that the plants often start producing new little fruits like crazy just before the frost
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July 29, 2019 | #9 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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July 30, 2019 | #10 |
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Location: Finland, EU
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August 1, 2019 | #11 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Corinth, texas
Posts: 1,784
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105 days left in north Texas. All my plants will be large, and producing again in mid to late September after being cut way back in the hot summer. The pepper plants will be loaded and heavy with peppers. We will harvest ripe tomatoes until the day before the first frost and then harvest the large green tomatoes to ripen in the shop until mid December. I'm not sure when to stop harvesting okra so some can dry on the plants for seed. I harvest garden greens all winter and start germinating seed and plant my onions in January. Oh well, I do get December off. We get our heaviest ice and snow in January and February and that is also when I clean my garden of dead plants and get the beds ready for spring planting.
Every year, I plan on reworking my compost bin. I really, really, really intend doing it this winter before I start filling it again with fresh organics from my garden and fallen leaves. Who knows, I may actually get it done this year. Last edited by DonDuck; August 1, 2019 at 10:05 PM. |
July 26, 2019 | #12 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Germany
Posts: 1
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Start some micros for indoor growing to survive winter season
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July 26, 2019 | #13 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: El Lago, Texas
Posts: 1,100
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My average first frost date, if I even have one, is December 11-December 20th.
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July 26, 2019 | #14 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Williamsburg VA Zone 7b
Posts: 1,110
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After years in Wisconsin, I'm still not used to the growing season in Virginia. Just said to my wife - I've got to plant a later crop of tomatoes! Long vines are not fairing well in the sunny hot summer this year.
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July 29, 2019 | #15 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Alabama
Posts: 7,068
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My best results with late tomatoes usually comes from staggered plantings that are set out in June and July. By that time most of my earliest set outs are in real decline though many are still producing a few good fruits which usually keeps me from pulling them when I should. Bill |
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