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Gixx's Tomato Garden progress.

This will be a journal of sorts. I will post pics add comments and share milestones. I should have started this earlier but better late than never right? I have been picking a bunch every other day at the least lately. Here is my latest batch.

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Gorgeous harvest! :D
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Nice harvest, gixx!

I never thought to mark up tomatoes so I knew which ones were which. Not a bad idea...
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You're way ahead of me! Our high temps for 2 weeks put the tomato plants on hold.

How many plants do you have total? By the size of that harvest I'm guessing somewhere between 12-18 plants?
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I normally mark the names because I have so many different varietys plus I'm saving seed so I need to make sure I know what I have.

12 - 18 plants that would be like a vacation. I started out with 89 and lost 16 to disease
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oh wow! Ha, surprised you have room for anything else in your garden! lol. That's a lot of plants! :)
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How many pounds of tomatoes do you harvest every year?
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Big long post deleted so sorry here is the abridged version.

Not much room in gardens but I still got my favorites in. Plans are always in the works though.

Have no idea about total lbs per yr. Not enough time to weigh them all anyways, too busy pickin' eatin' and admirin'. :lol:
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https://youtu.be/LGxFq0yIe0w

A tour of the tomato garden.
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very nice harvest glad to be back on the site...
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dustyrivergardens wrote:very nice harvest glad to be back on the site...
Thanks that is an evey other day kind of thing around here for now. Did you see the video a few post up?
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awesome! What you gonna do with all them maters?
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Eat them, seed them, and give them away.
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yes I did see the video I liked it very much you are doing great ... lots of maters lol my weakness also ....
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good thing your dog doesnt like munching on tomatoes, does your dog know better not to hop over that little fence and pee on your pride?
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joed2323 wrote:good thing your dog doesnt like munching on tomatoes, does your dog know better not to hop over that little fence and pee on your pride?
Yes she knows better. She is well trained. :D
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Aug 5th
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Aug 7th
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC06058.jpg[/img]

Oh yeah and a vid from a little bit ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYNy-wmH6g&feature=youtu.be
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Well it's that time of year again. Things are winding down time to think about cleaning up the garden and get ready for next year. Take a look at my vid what do you think should I hang on a bit more or just say screw it and take it down? Sorry the quality is bad again for some reason. I need some help here I don't want to end it but I truly think it might be time. Although We have at least another month left. If like last year maybe 2 month's. So it is a gamble. I just want some second opinions so I can blame it on you instead of myself. ;D ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1j6n5YXn8E&feature=youtu.be

What is left of the other garden.
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC06136.jpg[/img]
Spudatula and Spudyellow Strawberry
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Baby Big Cheef
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Not so baby Big Cheef this one will come in this winter to ripen the fruit that are on it.
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It aint much but....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH1P8UNVoHY&feature=youtu.be
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Still kickin here on Oct 23 I harvested these today. Top left Virginia Sweets, Amerkikanac, bottom Kleopatra.
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Looks good, gixx.

I wish my remaining maters would come off the vine looking so good. It seems like nearly everything I've been taking recently is incredibly cracked, has spots all over, or (in the case of the Romas and San Marzanos) the top 1/4 or so have brown/black splotches and don't want to ripen fully. My Valencias come off the vine looking the best of them all.
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Nice! Enough for a spaghetti dinner and some lovely tomato sandwiches. :D


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