Growing tired of waiting

[danielnc84]

This time of year the plants are all green and just starting to bare fruit and waiting for your first tomato to ripen is just a sit back and wait game and it sucks. The time and effort you put into growing these tomatoes and the time it takes.... This is the first year ive grown impatient. ive been gardening 5 years or better now. will be gald when i get my first mater out of the garden.

[RebelRidin]

Originally Posted by danielnc84

This time of year the plants are all green and just starting to bare fruit and waiting for your first tomato to ripen is just a sit back and wait game and it sucks. The time and effort you put into growing these tomatoes and the time it takes.... This is the first year ive grown impatient. ive been gardening 5 years or better now. will be gald when i get my first mater out of the garden.

Don't worry Daniel it gets better. In a few more years you won't find yourself growing impatient waiting for tomatos in May. You'll be growing impatient waiting for them in January!

[Irv Wiseguy]

I know how you feel. Every day I look through my plants hoping to see a little color. So far the green tomatoes just sit there laughing at me.

Irv

[Tom A To]

Where is that global warming when you need it? It's been unusually cold this year and the tomatoes are lagging a bit for me. The bacon, lettuce and bread are ready...

[Sun City Linda]

We've had several rounds of heat waves earlier here in inland Socal. Encough to give me a flurry of ripe earlies. Now things have stalled with the cooler temps. Not complaining though, I get my share of triple digits once Summer really kicks in.

[b54red]

I wasn't even thinking about ripe fruit yet and now you've gone and put the idea into my head way too early. With the late start and the cold snaps I'm just happy to finally have a good fruit set and was only worrying about what calamity would strike before the tomatoes could even get large enough to ripen.

Bill

[danielnc84]

if i lived in Alabama i think i would try to garden year around.

[b54red]

Originally Posted by danielnc84

if i lived in Alabama i think i would try to garden year around.

I do.

[drezz]

Man, I just planted a few tomatoes and peppers out here in zone 5. It's still a little too cold at that though it's going to warm up this week. I'm planting the bulk of my maters next weekend. Don't talk to me about ripe fruit yet.

[halleone]

Originally Posted by drezz

Man, I just planted a few tomatoes and peppers out here in zone 5. It's still a little too cold at that though it's going to warm up this week. I'm planting the bulk of my maters next weekend. Don't talk to me about ripe fruit yet.

I know what you mean. We have the heat on these days more than the air conditioner. It just can't make up its mind weather-wise, and my poor plants are so confused. So am I, come to think of it. My squash seedlings are looking especially yucky; at least the tomatoes are holding their own (for now). It IS going to get better.....

[Master_Gardener]

Originally Posted by danielnc84

This time of year the plants are all green and just starting to bare fruit and waiting for your first tomato to ripen is just a sit back and wait game and it sucks. The time and effort you put into growing these tomatoes and the time it takes.... This is the first year ive grown impatient. ive been gardening 5 years or better now. will be gald when i get my first mater out of the garden.

You may be slow but you are ahead of me this year. This is my 2nd year gardening and it seems everything is going wrong or going much to slowly.

I knew I made mistakes my first year gardening. I knew I would make mistakes my second year gardening, but I was hoping they would not be the same ones!

[bughunter99]

You have to plant more than tomatoes so that you have the earlier yields from other plants to satisfy while you wait.

Stacy

[pmanden]

Originally Posted by danielnc84

This time of year the plants are all green and just starting to bare fruit and waiting for your first tomato to ripen is just a sit back and wait game and it sucks. The time and effort you put into growing these tomatoes and the time it takes.... This is the first year ive grown impatient. ive been gardening 5 years or better now. will be gald when i get my first mater out of the garden.

Yeah danielnc84, I know how you feel. It takes ages (well about 4 and a half months) to grow tomatoes. I start inside in February (as I live in a rather cold country, Denmark) and I get angry if I don't get the first ripe tomato fruit before June 1st! This year, I might get the first fruit mid-June. Thinking of it now, it's ok. The harvest season is still about 5 months - until November :-) . But sometimes I want to live in a tropical area so I could grow plants all year round, forget about frost and not having to start from scratch each February.

[lycomania]

I know how you feel! I try to find other things to do, such as work on the lawn or buy new plants to stick wherever I can. My lawnmower received a new spark plug and air filter today.

Side projects do seem to help me and my naturally nonexistent patience level.

[danielnc84]

well some plants are doing alot better than others. i got plenty of decent green tomatoes. some of my plants are over 4ft tall and loaded with fruit and flowers. I will be very happy this time next month. I planted all beefsteaks so next year ill have to add some early varieties.