Very early pick your own #roma#tomatoes. Making tomato sauce today. Notable: the first year I did not hear any Italian bring spoken. I wonder if the older generation skipped this year.
#today we just ended our cornfest 2023. Our total ears of #sweetcorn brought to the table from the #garden this season was 197. This is not bad but our third planting ended up a little disappointing because I did not manage to feed the last row of corn enough for a variety of reasons, but lesson is learned for next year! (If I count the 4 ears the squirrels stole we grew 201 ears) Oh, yes, we also have several tons of #tomatoes (lost count) #gardening #Allotment #growden #NewEngland
30 different types of tomatoes to choose from to grow this coming gardening season.
WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY GODDAMN TOMATO SEEDS?
Anyway, of these... which ones are your favorite, or which would you like to try?
My favorites are the Sungold's and the Super Sweet 100s.
My goal is to make and sell things at farmers markets, and my little farm stand (that I didn't put up at all in 2023, whoops!).
Tomatoes are not all I grow... but I will never not be surprised at how many different types of tomatoes I have when I take my seed stock at years end.
Tomato plants in the backyard are acting like it is spring. Now I have to decide if I want to trim back all the old growth and keep them going into 2024 or not (i.e. will we actually have frost this year, or will we skip winter? Knowing things... will have one week of massive cold followed by a heatwave, LOL) #gardening#tomatoes
Dahlia works at the vegetable stand where I buy tomatoes. She's almost 10 and very chill, as you can see.
Ethan, her Dad, suggested I try his Biltmore variety of tomatoes. They resemble beefsteaks in color and flavor, and some have gathered tops like many heirloom varieties.
Ethan's family grow the produce they sell and will have some variety of tomatoes through early November.
🍅 🍅 I caught the tomato couple touching, ya'll. Either the fruits inched closer to each other on the plate, or someone (not me) picked one or both up and put them back incorrectly.
Both are a no-no. Tomatoes awaiting their fate should never touch, cruel as that may sound. It's for their own good; they last longer.
So I really want to grow tomatoes hydroponically indoors and I really want to try it with the Kratky method (no pumps, no aerators).
Problem is, you would need to provide the full amount of water needed and tomatoes take a lot of water, 50 to 80 gallons, depending.
I'm not going to have a 50 gallon water drum just to grow a single tomato plants. It takes up too much space AND its heavy (and can break things).
So I'm going to try a 5-gallon grow bucket, with a separate 5-gallon reservoir that is situated above the grow bucket. I'll connect the two with a tube so the water from the reservoir is gravity-fed into the grow bucket. I'll use a passive float-valve to ensure the grow bucket always maintains 2.5 gallons of water in it.
Still harvesting #tomatoes, but the plants are telling me the season is ending, despite the temperatures. Must be light sensitive. Still picking them ahead of the squirrels, not 100% ripe. #gardening
Our first ripe #tomatoes. I've been checking on these for weeks and today, boom, three are ready for picking. How are everyone else's gardens doing in #ottawa?
#Tomatoes into the ground, though we could still add to the second row. Will acquire more this week maybe.
Also K replaced the #thyme that didn't make it through the winter, and the #rosemary that didn't survive in an indoor pot past December. Those dark days are tough for it, but we use it very heavily anticipating it won't last.
I think I've only twice managed to get rosemary to last to be replanted in spring.
#garden small and large #tomatoes, and my first (and maybe only) #pepper. The squirrels and rabbits have been unusually fond of the pepper plants this year.
Did you know you can freeze whole tomatoes? There is a bumper crop of them in my part of the world and baskets of them are super cheap.
I rinse them off, pat them dry, then wrap them up in small bundles of 1 to 4 and pop them in the #freezer. They're great for adding to those winter stews and curries that ask for only 1 or 2 #tomatoes. And you don't have to open a whole can just to use part of it, or buy those pricey cardboard tomatoes in the winter.
The lighting makes them look bruised. They're not, and the one at 10 o'clock is up next. These are 4 slices + end piece, which I eat while I'm slicing.
My tomato starts have waited so long to get planted out they became very leggy.
I started laying them on their side a few days ago as they’ve been hardening off, to create a right angle in the stem.
Now I don’t have to dig down 18” and they can develop a more robust root system as they develop adventitious roots along the buried stem.
There are also more nutrients closer to the soil surface, since all of my beds have recently been amended. #gardening#plants#organicgardening#tomatoes@plants