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Old May 1, 2019   #16
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I thought they had not grown due to transplant shock and total cloud cover 24/7 but comparing pic from 5 days ago and now they have grown for sure

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I have set 24 yesterday and today and feel wore out. My 81 yr old neighbor who is rawhide and a seasoned gardener set 350 plants some Mon and the rest Tues. He is unbelievable. Took radiation for a spot on his lung couple months back but you would never know it. Nice weather here along the Ohio River. Have 60 plants to go. Waiting for my son to get up so I can use the tiller. Its all good.
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Cant be worse than my first year growing Toms.

I had 85 Lbs ripe, 38 Lbs unripe and 2 Lbs rotters,

Trouble was they were all moneymaker variety and nobody liked the taste, including me.
Ha ha! I always grew Moneymaker because it was the variety that my mother always bought (as seedlings) from Woolworths. She would send me seed packets from England and I didn't even know at the time that it was an OP variety. One season, I discovered that there were other varieties out there and when I grew some of them, I learned that I really didn't like the acidic taste of Moneymaker .

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Put three more rowes of 8 each in today and ran the tiller in the just right damp earth. At one point I got a perfect sniff of damp earth and it reminded me of days gone by. I had not smelled that in a long time. Its what its all about. Dig dirt. Make hole. Insert little plant. Then watch.
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Put three more rowes of 8 each in today and ran the tiller in the just right damp earth. At one point I got a perfect sniff of damp earth and it reminded me of days gone by. I had not smelled that in a long time. Its what its all about. Dig dirt. Make hole. Insert little plant. Then watch.
Good luck, sounds like you have a very good amount of them so should be huge harvest
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Ha ha! I always grew Moneymaker because it was the variety that my mother always bought (as seedlings) from Woolworths. She would send me seed packets from England and I didn't even know at the time that it was an OP variety. One season, I discovered that there were other varieties out there and when I grew some of them, I learned that I really didn't like the acidic taste of Moneymaker .

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They are bad, the 2nd and 3rd years I grew tigerella, Shirley F1, Gardeners Delight and Orkado F1.

Now my 4th year 5 Gardeners Delight, 9 Sungold and 3 Red Alert.

I really rate Gardeners Delight and will always grow them.

Moneymaker, never again in my life.
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Another update to compare at day 1 planted out, 5 days later and todays photo, 6 days later again.
Have several open flowers on the sungold now and pollinated some with electric toothbrush.
No open flowers on Gardeners Delight at all yet so they are lagging behind in production interestingly.
But the 5 Gardeners Delight on the left look to have denser growth and the Sungold more open and elongated growth pattern.


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Those are beautiful young tomato makers.
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Old May 18, 2019   #24
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April 25th VS May 18th. 23 days growth

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