Alaska 2015 tomatoes

[AKmark]

Here's a few pics of tomatoes that we are growing outside, some are in pots, some in the ground covered with irt, some just in the ground, and some are in 2 gallon containers with the bottoms tore out and are set on the ground.
We are getting great fruit set and several ripe fruit, Silvery Fir Tree sure is setting a lot of fruit for some reason. Early Girl is loaded, Summer Girl, our crosses with Bloody Butcher are doing wonderful, and our PL Early Girl cross is cranking out tomatoes, o-33 is loaded, 4th of July, even Brandywines have some fruit.
We have had many nights in the upper 40's low fifties, we are seeing what does best in cool weather. We have about 20 varieties going
Anyway, been playing and working, will show some greenhouse update pics soon

[efisakov]

Outstanding load on the plants and already getting ripe fruits. Beautiful pictures too. Great job. Thank you for sharing it, AKmark.
Love your birch trees in the background.

[zero244]

Looks like your getting another bumper crop this year. Unfortunately for me the deer have decimated 2\3 of my tomato plants. I don’t live in the country but their is a mother and her fawn invading my neighbourhood this year.
The problem is they kept topping my plants from the beginning and now there isn’t going to be enough time in the season for them to recover and produce.
They also killed many of my ever-bearing strawberry plants.
I guess I can drool over your crop Mark.

[AKmark]

These are cuttings that are mostly Delicious, and some Stump of the World, massive yield for me of nice looking fruit, with only a few ugly ones. The single plant is Dester x Bloody Butcher

[RobinB]

Wow! Amazing yield. I still haven't really gotten many fruit yet.

When do you usually get your first frost? How long do you usually keep the GH tomatoes going after that?

[efisakov]

Excellent usage of cuttings! Great idea and prove that tomatoes do not have limits.

[schill93]

Akmark. What is the size of those grow bags you are using. Some of the pictures make them look quite large.

[SharonRossy]

I'm so jealous! I think I need a greenhouse!

[AKmark]

RobinB September 20 average, I keep them going until the middle to end of October, just depends on weather and my Attitude. They are 9 months old by then.
Schill93, most are 10 gallon, but many are up to 20 gallon smart pots, but 10 will grow any variety just fine.

Ella, cuttings are awesome, I mass produce my favs from the early part of the season. Can you imagine 50 plants of your favorite, which are that plant? Btw, I have been fishing, kayaking too, almost got ate by a brown bear I met 15-20ft away, to add to the adventure. lol

[efisakov]

Originally Posted by AKmark

RobinB September 20 average, I keep them going until the middle to end of October, just depends on weather and my Attitude. They are 9 months old by then.
Schill93, most are 10 gallon, but many are up to 20 gallon smart pots, but 10 will grow any variety just fine.

Ella, cuttings are awesome, I mass produce my favs from the early part of the season. Can you imagine 50 plants of your favorite, which are that plant? Btw, I have been fishing, kayaking too, almost got ate by a brown bear I met 15-20ft away, to add to the adventure. lol

Wow, bear is not my type of adventure. My DH likes to go extreme. Catching a shark is fine for him, I do not like sharks.

[zipcode]

Originally Posted by AKmark

Schill93, most are 10 gallon, but many are up to 20 gallon smart pots, but 10 will grow any variety just fine.

About how much production do you get from a 10gal? Like, a good pot, not the best

[AKmark]

Zipcode, it used to be around 20- 30lbs for an average plant from a good yielding variety, but this year I am doing something completely different that I learned about a few years back, but never tried it.
When I harvest a truss of fruit, I trim the leaves off to that point, and I lower the plant by coiling the stripped stalks around the container. This is an awesome technique for long season growers to keep their plants producing at full potential, or close. Now, I don't know my yields, but I can say, my plants started in January are still looking good and are pumping out fruit.

[efisakov]

My MIL used to grow tomatoes back in Ukraine (Crimea). She used hair pins to hold long side-shoots next to the ground. The soots were growing their own additional roots . The tomato plant looked like a crab at some point. That method allowed her to increase production drastically.

[AKmark]

We have our fertilizer dialed in tight in the garden, the plants in the ground are looking great. Siletz, got chopped, Sophie's Choice, ho hum, Silvery Fir Tree is OK, but fun too look at. These I will never grow again.
Early Girl, Summer Girl, 0-33, Sasha's Altai, Flora, 4th of July, Bloody Butcher, Matina, our cross of Brandywine x BB, and PL Early Girl x PL Black Krim, Moschvich, and Clear Pink Early are good tasting and produce well, others that are just ok I'm not going to mention.

The new Burpee Summer Girl is a production machine of pretty nice fruit, that is bigger than EG and almost as tasty, a good EG is a good tasting hybrid for me, very good actually.
0-33 is new for me too, and it is good, is early, with great production on a puny plant of 3-5 oz tomatoes.
Anyway, some random pics.

[AKmark]

A couple pics of tomatoes going to the market. The pic that has the BW label, the two left rows are Sudduth's BW.