I had a tomato buddy give me some starts. One of them has two plants in one cell of a six pack. Now normally, I'd sacrifice one of them (usually the weaker plant). They're...
I had 2 Belgian Pink bought plants in separate parts of the garden and they both look like the wicked witches feet after the ruby slippers were taken off.
It had to be the...
Several years ago, Indigo Kumquat didn't get included in the master gardener tomato sale because it was so much slower than all the other varieties they grew that year. The...
Last year I grew Weisser Pfirsich, which I got seeds in a trade from a Finnish gardener. One of the plants grew different color tomatoes, which were late ripening outdoors,...
In my 20 plus years of growing tomatoes in Earthboxes I have never seen such large nematodes. Fact is I almost never see any at all, maybe some random small ones. Of 4 plants...
Tomato plants that I thought were dead but are putting out new shoots close to the ground.
In containers that may be worthy of ripping up and planting indoors in fresh soil....
Asked my dh after trying his first bi-color. Yes of course it can be and nope you have to wait for the other Big Hill tomatoes to get ripe before you can have more. Yes this...
Does anyone remember PaddyMc from tville forums. He/she had some interesting crosses going. Hasn't posted at TV since 2018, and I don't see them here. Would love to find them...
I bit into a home grown tomato expecting something great tasting- a little red pear shaped dose of shockingly bad flavor . How can a tomato that innocent looking be so...
So I've been asked if I want to help choose about 20 tomato varieties to grow for the master gardeners' spring fund raiser. (It's a big switch from my normal tomato-choosing...
So here it is the peak of my tomato season and my wife and I came down with Covid last week. Now all my great tasting heirlooms are tasting like styrofoam. I could get...
I'm going to start a new thread on this subject, the elite, knock-your-socks-off, desert island tomatoes. A few people are asking about such tomatoes in the MMMM swap.
Late in the season the tomatoes are way too tall so they get cut back. Has anyone ever let one or two suckers grow lower down on the plant earlier in the season so that they...
A lot of the hearts I’m growing have ripened with unripe green/yellow shoulders, wasting about a third of the fruit. Wondering if this is environmental based on poor weather...
I have 2 tomato plants at an alternate site that I planted in May that just started getting blossoms a few weeks ago.
The plants are lush green much better than my garden...
Making my list for next year now. We grow ten varieties every year and I have one through eight already chosen. Cherokee Carbon, GGWT, and Daniel Burson are on the list and...
Are there Open Pollinated varieties from the tomato Green Bee OP with homozygous for the Rin gene?
Or do u know there are other Homozygous varieties with the Rin gene for...
I can't believe it's the second half of August and I still don't have any ripe tomatoes!! My plan was to start planting at the community garden in mid-March, and I had...
Hey all,
I have been growing tomatoes in containers for 20 years with great success. But I attribute a great deal of that success to the soil I use. For years I've been using...
I need you to help me to solve a dilemma. At a local nursery I bought in the last spring seedlings of Cherokee Purple and Black Krym. I grow them side by...
I have seeds for the following midseason, indet., large, good tasting pinks. I have room for three or four of them. I have never grown any of them.
Which of these are...
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