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Permalink Reply by dan brown on July 19, 2011 at 4:32am

speaking from experience----this is the weather where they thrive.

get ready for plate fulls of tomatoes for dinner (remember the pepper / olive and parmesean cheese)

and fresh home made salsa (with habanero peppers)

 

DB

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on July 19, 2011 at 4:39am

I've got a few that are starting to get some color.  This is after two rounds of seedlings got drowned by May and early June rain.  Bought a plant and lost the first few almost-ripe tomatoes to squirrels.  :(

Permalink Reply by Todd Allen on July 19, 2011 at 4:47am

This year got off to a very slow start for tomatoes.

 

We have gotten a few of our small early varieties.  And we have gotten a couple of larger tomatoes that were gnawed a bit by rats or squirrels as injured tomatoes ripen much faster.    Most years we would be buried in tomatoes by now as we start ours very early indoors and then plant out into our hoop house and or kozy coats.

Permalink Reply by Duppie on July 20, 2011 at 7:29am

Not yet. Our 12 plants are bursting with fruit, but not ready yet, not even yellowing.This may have to do with that I planted them outside only in late May, since the vegetable bed wasn't ready earlier.

An completely unscientific count estimated the number of tomatoes currently ripening at about 350 with plants still generating more flowers.

I am planning to can tomatoes for sauce this year. Never canned myself before, but my mom and my grandparents did when i was young. Looking forward to it.

Last year we froze a bushel of tomatoes, but the texture really deteriorated after 3-4 months in the freezer

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on August 9, 2011 at 10:40am

I've harvested 10 cherry tomatoes in the last week.  Got a few more that should be ripe in a few days.  Yeah!

Duppie - When you froze a bushel of tomatoes, were they beefsteak or other large tomatoes, or smaller ones?  I've tried freezing whole cherry tomatoes, with the intention of using them in chili, jambalaya and other things where I wanted tomato flavor but texture wasn't a concern.  They worked quite nicely for that type of use.

Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on January 25, 2012 at 7:12am

We had a miserable year for tomatos.  Great year for eggplant, though.

 

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on March 16, 2012 at 6:53am

After last year's nasty May, I've been a bit hesitant to get anything started, since most of the seedlings I started last March either got killed off soon after planting, or got too leggy from staying indoors and just didn't thrive.

Maybe I'll start some tomato and other warm weather seeds by the end of the month.  Seems like I could plant snow peas now.

How's everyone else doing?  I've been spending more time cleaning up the non-veggie beds, since things are coming up so early.  My daffodils and scilla started blooming in the last 2 days.  Blue lawns of Beverly are starting to bloom!