Checking in on your tomatoes!

[Marian Worley]

Very soon we will begin the summer harvesting of tomatoes and I cannot wait. Wilth the cool wet summer in the south the tomatoes took a while to make, and I have experienced a bit of blossom drop and lack of blossoms, but the tips I have received, calcium, fish emulsions, have helped and I have a nice crop coming. How are yours coming?

[Joy Williams]

except for battling rats and one plant getting a little early blight (nipped that in the bud) they are going great guns! Can't wait for my first fruit!

[david e kelley]

How did you nip the blight in the bud? My tomatoes are ripening, and we are eating a few daily, but the blight is starting to move up the foliage. The indeterminate plants are over seven feet tall. The weather has been over 100 F many days over the last few weeks. Help if you can.
Stay natural.

David

[Michelle W. Flannery]

Hi David. There is a discussion about Tomato Late Blight in the group Tomatoes. You can see the discussion here. There is a lot of information that might help you.

[david e kelley]

Thank you. I've located a local nutsery that sells Serenade. I'm anxious to use the product.
Stay natural.

David

[David Brownlee]

Well my patios have done about as expected...tons of green stuff - little fruit. The dang things are 9 feet high.

[PiscesGirl]

Wow!

[Ian]

I ate my first one today... It was just a little under ripe but I was working in amongst the plants and it got knocked off...Wll, it was too good to leave

Ian

[Penelope]

It's too painful reading about people eating tomatoes already. Mine are just barely beginning to bloom. I've got to move.

[Gillian]

Considering that when we moved into our new place in December all the neighbours told me we could not grow tomatoes there - bacterial blight in the soil, they said. I prepared a no-dig vegetable patch, and dug in some fish heads under where I planned to plant my tomatoes. I only planted one heirloom - black russsian and then about 6 cherry tomatoes. I went through a bit of a nervous time, with leaves doing a curly type of thing and now have put bamboo on all four corners with string holding up the entire lot of tomatoes as I cant differentiate between the plants anymore! they each started out with their own individual stake, but now they are over five feet high! We have had a couple of yummy black russians and the cherries just get eaten straight off the vine - they dont even make it inside. From next week there will be enough to share with the neighbours!

[Charles]

I've eaten 3 of my Romas and one little Sweet 100 grown in West TN. My Rutgers are growing, but none are ripening yet. I've also already given about 5 Romas away.

[Michelle W. Flannery]

I've been harvesting tomatoes for several weeks here in Georgia. It started with some stunted Better Boys growing on one of my upside down tomato plants. Delicious anyway! Then there were Sweet 100s by the handful every few days, a ripening German and other Better Boys here and there. Then, yesterday, I realized the tomatoes are piling up faster than we can eat them, and that's what I've been waiting for. To my surprise, many of the plants are reaching over 7 feet now, and they are loaded with fruit. I'm harvesting tomatoes daily, and we're enjoying this delicious fruit in every possible way! There aren't enough yet to consider canning, but maybe a quart or two for freezing. Right now, I just want to eat them fresh!

[Charles]

I'm looking forward to getting several Jalapeno peppers and tomatoes ready at the same time and trying to make my own salsa!