Discussion forum for the various methods and structures used for getting an early start on your growing season, extending it for several weeks or even year 'round.
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#16 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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I get leaves that eventually look like giant fern leaves.
Here's a Russian Soul: http://i.imgur.com/DWhqGTN.jpg Productive from Altai: http://i.imgur.com/up6d8xC.jpg The stem on the Altai is so thick that it reminds me of a dwarf. |
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#17 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
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Cloudy days like today seem to take clearer pics, at least from my cheap phone:
http://i.imgur.com/HgBWqc6.jpg |
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#18 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Chicago IL
Posts: 857
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Looking good! Keep posting, always good to know how plants doing. I wonder how much earlier you get Yuvel work for you. Stunning tomato but late for me.
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#19 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Ardmore,Oklahoma
Posts: 172
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Nice looking plants, I always enjoy watching your progress.
Rick |
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#20 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: San Diego-Tijuana
Posts: 2,598
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Russian Soul is setting fruit exceptionally well down here. Your plants are happy under protection.
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#21 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
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Agatha trucking along: http://i.imgur.com/f4j2hpD.jpg
High tunnel this morning: http://i.imgur.com/eV0iJr2.jpg |
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#22 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Mid-Atlantic right on the line of Zone 7a and 7b
Posts: 1,369
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Beauty!
Cole, when did you plant into the tunnel? I feel like that is where we should be right now as far as growth and size of plant. We went 19 straight days in late April into may with zero direct sunlight/full cloudy days. Never experienced that in my life and never want to again. My plants really missed out on grow time but are starting to go now with 2 days, about to be 3 of nice sun and 70-75. |
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#23 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
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Thanks. I planted on April 14th. The weather has been unusually cool and wet for the past month here as well.
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#24 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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I just picked a handful of cherry tomatoes off of an outdoor Anmore Dew Drops and Anmore Treasures. Those two varieties beat the high tunnel in earliness as outdoor plants.
Here are a couple high tunnel pics taken just now. Productive from Altai: http://i.imgur.com/7DrizTk.jpg Buckbee's New 50 Day: http://i.imgur.com/qSSI7vQ.jpg Those two varieties are leading the way in the high tunnel. Agatha and Grot deserve a mention, too. It's been cloudy and wet. In the first pic above, you can see some sporadic yellowing. I have that intermittently around the garden. I don't know if it's early blight. I am always reluctant to spray, and am hoping most plants will grow out of it. If they don't I don't want them back, anyway. Sol Gold looks like the weak sister in that regard, but the plants are looking ok otherwise. It will still need to taste very good to get me to keep it. High tunnel plants in the background: http://i.imgur.com/A2TFY3C.jpg |
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#25 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Wasilla Alaska
Posts: 2,010
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Looks awesome Cole, lots of plants that look nice and healthy.
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#26 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
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Thanks, Mark. My Cowlicks x Big Beef is doing well. I'm looking forward to trying it.
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#27 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
Posts: 6,794
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Mouth watering looking at that crop of Productive Altai.
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#28 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
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Agatha wins the race to ripeness: http://i.imgur.com/NuyzfIG.jpg
I just ate one, and it was very good. Agatha is my fourth variety of the year to ripen, behind a Bosky in the greenhouse, and one each of Anmore Dew Drops and Anmore Treasures outside. It is by far the best I have tasted so far this year. Texture and flavor are both great. I like it better than Gribovski from last year. The skin is not nearly as thick and the fruit are larger. The bad news, which one can see from looking at that pic, is that my whiteflies are back. Curiously, they only seem to be on the Agatha, the first ripe fruit. Maybe that is the sweetest plant to eat right now. I'm going to spray Met52 tonight. |
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#29 |
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: San Diego-Tijuana
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Those whiteflies are tough customers. I thought I'd sprayed everything and found them hiding in droves under big Nicotinia leaves. Met52 to the rescue.
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#30 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
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I read an old post on tville that I couldn't find again when I searched. It said that "overly rich" soil - whatever that is - will attract insect pests. My soil is so rich that I can hardly use my fertilizer injector without burning everything. I think the whiteflies are another "victim of your own success" type of problem. I'm glad I had the whitefly experience last year, so I can spot them now and kill them before the population spirals out of control.
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