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Old July 10, 2012   #31
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it is an exciting time.. my plants are growing slow i got them in late becase of all the rain into june now i wish we had some rain but they look quite healthy with thick stems nd great leaf color so much difference in the architecture of the plants between the different varieties.. i especially like looking at my carrot leaf tomato plant from tania such lcy foliage and loaded with blossoms.. when i get home from work i can just stare at the plants touch the stems and inhle the tomato aromas
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Old July 11, 2012   #32
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I know this exact feeling!!


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I went outside today to try buzzing the blossoms with an electric toothbrush, and lo and behold, I found my first tomato growing! It is a Red Belly. This is my first year growing tomatoes from seed and I don't think I really believed that I would get any fruit until I saw this today! I sat down on the grass and stared at it for about ten minutes. It was very exciting. In fact, just writing this post makes me want to go outside and check that it's still there and I wasn't imagining it!
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Old July 11, 2012   #33
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Only ripe fruit I had in June was Moravsky Div. First week in July I got Siberian, Galina and Coldset. Not a record for me, but happy to be eating tomatoes.

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Old July 11, 2012   #34
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It's July 11 and I'm sitting on my porch - couldn't be a more perfect evening. Except maybe if I had me some home grown 'maters!! I look out and see lots of pots of tomato plants with green leaves. Nope - narry a tomato on them! But I realized that I no longer have the "early season" toms I had seeded - either because I had given them to friends or because of the fungus disease my toms got 3 weeks ago. So, I don't expect these toms to start giving me any blooms until August.

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Old July 11, 2012   #35
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I'm lucky this year, I've picked about 50 ripe medium-large varieties and 30 sungolds from 13 plants. The warm early spring, followed by drought and super high heat have pushed things early.
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Old July 16, 2012   #36
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Finally...Picked my first three vine ripened Liz Birts yesterday, actually four but one had some bites out of it so it got tossed. There's also a ripe Barlow Jap but I'm giving it one more day on the vine.
The past week has seen ripe Terhune's, Delicious, Amazon Chocolates but all had "BER" and got tossed.
This has to be the latest for me to pick first ripe tomatoes here and it was driving me crazy. Now everything should be getting ripe this week.
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Old July 16, 2012   #37
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Man, I'm going crazy here. So many greenies, and with all this heat, one would "think" I'd have had red tomatoes by now. Just the oddball here and there. The hot peppers are going nuts, but I planted those as an afterthought, and was really banking on having ripe tomatoes by now. <sigh>.
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Old July 16, 2012   #38
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Man, I'm going crazy here. So many greenies, and with all this heat, one would "think" I'd have had red tomatoes by now. Just the oddball here and there. The hot peppers are going nuts, but I planted those as an afterthought, and was really banking on having ripe tomatoes by now. <sigh>.
I grew up in northern N.J. Bergen county. Had my first gardens as a youngster in Little Ferry and later on moved to Upper Saddle River and Ramsey. Never had tomatoes ripen this late...ever.
I hope you get some color soon!
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Old July 16, 2012   #39
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Happy to hear your harvest has begun, Camo! I'm sure they'll be worth the wait and that you enjoy every one! BER is such a disappointment- have had quite a bit of it here, but only on certain plants where it wiped out almost all the fruits! Think I had one fruit on one of the Terhune plants get it too. As late as it may be for you, many others are still waiting...

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Happy to hear your harvest has begun, Camo! I'm sure they'll be worth the wait and that you enjoy every one! BER is such a disappointment- have had quite a bit of it here, but only on certain plants where it wiped out almost all the fruits! Think I had one fruit on one of the Terhune plants get it too. As late as it may be for you, many others are still waiting...

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They are really turning color quickly now. I would have expected BER to have been a problem on my Purple Dog Creeks, Liz Birts and Cowlick's as they were almost lost in the "floods" we had earlier in the season. They are half the size of the others planted at the same time. Terhune seems to be my biggest problem as they all show BER as soon as you see color, some sooner. Had the same problem with them last year, also.
A few years back I grew Mexico for the first time and never got a single tomato that didn't have BER. They were huge too. Needless to say I haven't tried them since.
Everything is getting ripe now...seems that every walk through the garden I discover more. I hope everyone else is seeing the same excitement!
Enjoy!
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Old July 17, 2012   #41
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Yay for you Camo, so glad your garden is becoming more colorful! I'm about 2 hours from you so I'm hoping mine turns soon too. I'd hate for everything to turn late for me in August while I'm on vacation because I know the neighbors are going to raid the garden then!
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Old July 17, 2012   #42
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If it wasn't for Bloody Butcher I'd be waiting until almost August every year. I picked my first ripe one 6 days ago and 3 more since. More importantly we are getting good rain today that may break our mini drought.
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Camo, I guess that's the best way to whittle down the list- keep growing the ones you like for taste but year after year also seem to resist BER, disease, stinkbugs, catfacing and anything else that you find annoying in a tomato while the others succumb!

As I was going down the rows last night checking for worms to squish, I was admiring the beautiful foliage of some of the plants and yet I almost felt insulted by a few varieties that have leaves that are curled up like tp roll. What's their problem? They're getting the same treatment as all the others and they look terrible. Their fruits are going to have to be pretty amazing for them to make next year's lineup.

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Old July 17, 2012   #44
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Glad to hear tomatoes are turning for many of you! I still have a ways to go, but then I didn't get them in the ground until the very end of May. I'm barely at the 50 day mark.

One thing I know I'm going to do next year is plant more than two Kimberleys. They have put on a fair amount of fruit which started turning last week, and last night we enjoyed our first garden tomato salad. They tasted like tomatoes should, with enough flavor to stand up to a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. I think few more plants next year should produce enough earlies to hold me over!
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