Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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Update - so far I have these planted in the cells:
Sweetie WOW Peacevine Oranje Van Goeijenbier Japanese Pink Cherry Punta Banda - 2 for growing in pots. Rebel Yell Sioux Arkansas Traveler Early Girl VFF Siletz Floradade - Walter x Fla. 2153 Big Beef Pruden's Purple Atkinson Helsing ★★★★★★★★ Blue Matt's Wild Cherry Berkeley Tie Dye Pink Enduro #1 Missouri 15 Last edited by AlittleSalt; June 11, 2016 at 06:07 PM. Reason: Finished List |
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This makes so much sense! How can I bookmark this post for future reference??
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I planted them in the area of the garden that we now call the RKN garden. Later this year/Next year, it will be called 'The Chicken Pen/Coop'.
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Last year I left my tomato plants in the ground and as the summer temps began to drop they set on new growth, blooms and tomatoes. The plants looked terrible but I got about
200 tomatoes after I thought it was over. |
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Got a late start due to several reasons this year, so put in the tomatoes for a late summer/fall garden. Trying out quite a few and hopefully they shall do well with heavy mulch and ( if I EVER figure it out) good irrigation/feeding.
Up here, it's hotter and drier than Salt or worth and the wind can be a good thing for keeping circulation, though August is usually just brutal, temp wise. |
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I will do a test fall tomato garden too.
Being my first year gardening down here, I don't know how early or late our killer frost will come. But I guess it should be some time close to Thanksgiving. So in the case , if I plant out mid July ( as Bill has recommended ) , there will be a 4 months window of time and most early and mid season varieties should have a chance. I might do a few form cuttings and some from seeds that I have.
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Same here.
I have some suckers rooting now for a few plants hoping one will make the nifty-50 in the MMMM exchange. Going to try to start paying back some of the many that gave me seeds this last year. |
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When I posted my reply early this morning (Post #20) - I didn't have much time before we had to go. I do have fall tomato plants coming up for this Fall garden. I'm stubborn and will try planting them in a different garden. I planted them a month and week or so before they are suggested to start (Suggested July 4) I planted around May 21. So far, I have these coming up:
Amish Gold Campari (A bunch of them) Grape F2 (An F2 cross) Porter Rebel Yell (1 plant) Sungold (2 from older seeds) Sun Sugar 5 clones that I'm too tired to remember what they are. And I'm going to see if I can find some VFN hybrid varieties of seeds locally tomorrow. |
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![]() Especially those from seed. I Think I can produce seedlings from cutting much faster. But with the seeds I think a 6 weeks window of time should be ok. Now, I have to look into my seeds inventory and pick a few for fall planting. I want to plant the varieties that I wanted to plant in the spring but did not have space for them.
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Gardeneer, I am worn out after a very long day and hopefully this makes sense. For a fall garden, longer DTM varieties may not have the time to produce. That's why I'm only growing the one Rebel Yell - it's 80 DTM. It may be only my opinion and thoughts, but the fall garden is a good time to try out some shorter DTM varieties. A lot of cherry tomatoes fit that description. Many will grow and produce in both hot and cooler weather. There is also the fact that each day of sun is growing shorter in the fall until the winter solstice. The sun's intensity is also lower in fall. The sun feeds our tomato plants in a different but very important way.
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I was just going to ask about the DTM for fall crop of tomatoes. Here are the ones I would like to grow for the fall, from seed: AZOYCHKA ( it is mid season ) BIG BOY (or ?) BETTER BOY BLACK KREME ( to compare to my other black vars.) BLOODY BUTCHER ( It is early ..) CHEROKEE PURPLE ( it is early-mid) COSTOLUTO GEN. (*) DELICIOUS (*) DWARF PURPLE HEART INDIGO ROSE LIMMONY (*) MAT-SU EXPRESS (*) PURPLE BUMBLE BEE (*) RIESENTRAUBE ( didn,t do well in PNW) SILETZ (it is early , likes cool weather ) ------------------ (*) _ FIRST TIME I will have to choose only 6 or 7 of those, as I want a smaller fall garden. Any suggestions as to which ones to grow ? I will also have some from my current varieties, by rooting cuttings.
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I have grown many fall gardens over the years. Once I even harvested up to Christmas Day. One thing I have discovered is that without the heat, they don't get the flavor. At least that's been my experience. They're OK, but nothing like a summer tomato.
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