I have waited, and waited patiently with my mouth watering for some huge tomatoes and finally! Of course the brandy boys are just turning red and aren't ready yet, so waiting smacking my lips, after hearing they are related to the brandy wine and how good the brandy wine is supposed to taste.
Sweet! Looks so yummy
Beautiful! Makes it all worthwhile, doesn't it? Can't wait til next year to try more kinds of tomatoes! Eat well, enjoy the fruits of your labors!!
Thanks. My daughter says she is tired of tomatoes and cukes, so have been taking some over to my brother and his family and my sis and her kids and my neighbors and friends, all except the huge tomatoes, which I've been slicing up and putting just the right amount of salt and pepper on them or making tomato sandwiches for myself. LOL I got one tomato from the brandy boy that was ready and it is meaty and flavorful. The 4th of July's and the health kicks are doing great.
joy
Hello Joy,
I have just started my first try with tomato's in a BIG pot.
Would you do me a favor and look in the "Tomato's" forum and look at the post
"My Tomato patch..........", please.
One person said I may have a problem with over crowding and since you are successful with tomato's can I have your thoughts?
They are medium size and usually sold still attached to the stems in packs of 4 or more tomato's.
I may have to move one of them.
Thank you very much,
Debi
good looking veggies Joy...nice!
Garden Glory: Thanks, the bugs got them this summer though, the heat and humidity brought the bugs and then the rains made it difficult to get rid of the bugs, so my tomato gardening is over until February when I open up the greenhouse for my tomatoes.
Debi:
TPlant and a few others maybe Ray? Are much better advisers on tomatoes but I will go look at your thread ok? I know I don't like the square footers for tomatoes as they are not big enough to accomadate a huge root system, the 5 gallon buckets are for one tomato and the EBs I will try this Spring.
joy
Hey, Joy,
What kinda bells are those in your pic? I'm trying like the Dickens to grow a LARGE bell pepper.
So far, unsuccessful, although the one bell plant that has limped along from LAST summer gave me a coupla bells in this summer heat. Right now it is actually LOADED with half-dollar sized bells and more blooms, and it is growing bigger, larger leaves. If I can just keep it alive a little bit longer, I might just get a bumper crop this fall!
But, I really need to grow some big bell peppers. We go through them like water in our southern cooking. Almost EVERY dinner recipe calls for bell peppers, onions and celery/garlic....That would be a true cash crop for me!
Linda
I cant get them to get big either. You would think it would be one of the easier things/.
Joy, where'yah at girl?
Degarotty -- Transplant your tomatos to one per pot. Water thoroughly before and after transplanting and in one week use a fertilizer like liquid Miracle Gro or 10-10-10, one cup, spread around the rim of the pot and scratched in and use some mulch to help prevent weeds and keep the soil moist. Do this and you will have many delicious tomatos.
I'm here, getting ready to head Tplants and Boca Bob's way the first week of September for a week vacation, unless a hurricane spurns up, then I'm outta there. LOL I've been cleaning up around here and getting everything ready for the fall season, it's kept me pretty busy, got a plywood floor going down in the portable greenhouse, got all my potting mixes and left over coir in totes now with lids on them. Condensing my garden down to where it is easy to manage the 14 HEBs and EBs and GPs I have left planted with veggies. Getting ready to finish the 3rd yard sale table up too.
I got my peppers (the green ones) from RH Shumways, they are doing really well now, and the variety colored ones are the rainbow peppers from Gardeners choice. I'm getting another round of eggplants off the fairy tale eggplants and two baby melons have been located on the many vines full of flowers in the lay flat bag of coir. My okra is too tall, I've had to pull the stem down to cut the okra, glad that stem is strong.
The rainbow ones don't have the flavor the green ones have though. I like the green ones the best, most the rainbow ones are a purplish color with a few reds and yellows.
joy
Pics from my Spring/Summer 2009 season:
Another one:
more:
Another one of the strawberries grown in my EBs:
These are some cukes and peppers:
Pic of my cukes (national picking kind):
Couldn't leave off the fairy tale eggplants:
Great encouragemnt for next year, as this is the time I start getting those seeds planted for putting in the EB's by the first of March or Middle of FEB.
I'm a little puzzled as to when I should start my seeds in the seed starting kits. Was think possibly the last week of February or the next to the last week in February for this area for my tomatoes and peppers?
joy
Most I dont start so soon, but since I put the tomatoes in the EB's that I can easily move, I will plant them out in 6 to 8 weeks...the end of Feb.
Last year I learned a lesson on peppers...they take forever. I have many kinds I want to grow this year and even if I plant now,,it seems it takes them a good 12 weeks. Slow germinaters too.
Gardenglory: I remember it took my peppers and eggplants forever it seemed; but, once they started it all started coming together nicely.
I think peppers and eggplants are so fussy about the temps.
joy
I read somewhere they like bottom heat to get started. I think others are using a heatmat for germination...I currently have 7 peppers growing in the winter, each with one fruit on it. They've survived at least two dips into the mid-30s (covered over with sheets).
I'm hoping to keep them alive to repot them for the springtime. I'm gonna sink them deeper than they are planted now, in hopes they'll develop a strong root system along that stalk. I truly want to grow BIG, HEALTHY bell peppers. We use bell peppers and onions in almost everything we cook.
Tis true! Peppers and Eggplants need heat mats to get them to germinate or they will seemingly take forever..
My undercounter lights have tiny bulbs, but they make big light and way to much heat. They especially heat up the bottom shelf of the cabinets they are mounted on. Yeppers...you guessed it, I moved my flour and stuff up a shelf. Sat my sponges with their dome in their, and it already loaded with condesation and the water the sponges are in, is warm as toast. Perfect. Now...what to do with them once they sprount and need light.
outside in a MILK JUG....check the Winter Sowing thread...
