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05-16-2010, 05:47 PM | Topic Starter |
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Tomatoes in the ground
Finally finished up with planting all my tomatoes for the season. I've been working on this for two weeks and had to cover the ones I put into the ground probably prematurely two weeks ago several times. I'm hoping that any chance of hard freeze is gone at this point and I don't have to worry about it from here on out.
Varieties: Hybrids: Better Boy Big Boy Early Girl Lemon Boy DX-52-12 La Roma II Viva Italia Sweet Tangerine Moscow Heirlooms: Mortgage Lifter Black Pink Brandywine Red Brandywine Brandywine Big Rainbow White Wonder Amish Black Krim Green Zebra Fourth of July Rutgers Mr. Stripey Yellow Pear Taxi Chocolate Cherry Rose Quartz Peppers also went in with Bells in Purple, Yellow, Red, Orange and Green, along with Thai, Jalapeno, Cayenne, Habanero, Anaheim and Serrano. |
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05-16-2010, 06:14 PM | #2 |
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Sounds like ingredients for a few jars of "Salsa" for the Chiefs tailgate parties! :-)
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05-16-2010, 06:47 PM | #3 |
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I planted tomatoes and peppers last week as well.
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05-16-2010, 06:54 PM | #4 |
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I love tomatoes, but can't grow them.
I'm curious about why so many varieties? I think I'd plant my favorite 2 or 3 varieties and leave it at that. Surely some of those you planted you consider inferior to others? |
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05-16-2010, 10:36 PM | #5 | |
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I like trying several new varieties every year in addition to the standards. The DX-52-12 is the defacto standard here in the mountain west. It's an improved version of the Moscow (which, in itself, was a hybrid lab variety) developed for the higher elevations, sandy soil and shortened growing seasons here in the Rocky Mountain region. I do save seeds from the better plants and put into the ground several from the best of the seed starts. I also order a few new varieties of heirloom seed packs every year. You never know which one ends up being your favorite. Might as well try as many as you can in order to get that end of the rainbow, pot of gold if you can. So far, for me, the Green Zebra has been my favorite. Doesn't can for shit, so you have to eat them fresh, but holy mother of all things tasty, they are good. I'm trying Mortgage Lifters this year based on the favorable comments that this strain has received here, although from what I hear, they don't have the acidity to preserve properly. Sounds like a good fresh mater though. I like trying a lot of varieties simply because they are so different in terms of taste, acidity, etc. They all cook different, can different, etc. I make a ton of salsa every year (I'll make five or six batches in a season using 100+ tomatoes in each batch), make my own BBQ sauce from scratch, and just through using tomatoes in everyday cooking. I try to can an immense amount of tomatoes just by themselves so I can have that taste in cooking deep into the winter months. I hate mass produced hydro store bought tomatoes. Bad scotch, bad tequila, bad tomatoes. It's easy to tell the difference between bad and good with such things. |
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05-16-2010, 06:55 PM | #6 |
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Lookin' like a FOOOL, with your tomatoes on tha ground.
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05-16-2010, 07:09 PM | #7 |
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How big is your vegetable garden? Are you planting multiples of each variety or just one of each? Do you sell or can them? I find that the planting part is easy but the taking care of them as the summer gets hotter is what we struggle with.
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05-16-2010, 07:18 PM | #8 |
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Damn man, you love you some tomatoes.
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05-16-2010, 07:28 PM | #9 |
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Sacco, do you save seeds from your heirlooms?
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05-16-2010, 07:32 PM | #10 |
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We were given some heirloom plants that somebody had grown from seeds. We didn't have room for them in our beds, though, so I had to build a new, raised bed. They're doing very well, so far. But our topsy turvy plant is doing awesome. It looks a little crazy being upside down and all (it's trying to turn itself upright in order to get sunshine which it needs to grow), but it's getting big fast. Real fast.
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Therefore, if one little, crazy, upside-down tomato plant is going to upset her, so be it. Get used to it, Mother Nature. The stores are jam packed with topsy turvy planters. FAX |
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All we did was put some potting soil mixed with some good dirt in the container, added some Miracle Grow stuff, and watered the living crap out of it (we've gotten a lot of rain here, too). It gets medium direct sun ... about 6 hours a day. It's doing really well, though. It just looks weird trying to turn itself upright and all. I think (and this is just a guess) that, because it's more or less a hydroponic type of contraption, more water is better than less water and that, of course, means it can take quite a bit of sun. FAX |
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