Fish in the ground

[Worth1]

I'm 95 miles to Lott Texas.
So lets see now I'm 166 miles from you.

Worth

[Fiishergurl]

My plants in the seashell, fish fertilized ground are still doing good! Its not an Everglades plant like I had thought. Not sure what it is. Tomatoes are bigger than a quarter but smaller than a golf ball.... see below. Leaves are PL.



The other plant is Surpriz and it is setting tomatoes now. So far so good.



Ginny

[ddsack]

Those plants look so healthy! Doesn't look like the salty ground is doing them any damage at all. I wonder if it's actually keeping various pests away too. Are you growing some of the same varieties in pots too? It would be interesting to know if there is any flavor difference between the pot and ground plants.

[Fiishergurl]

Originally Posted by ddsack

Those plants look so healthy! Doesn't look like the salty ground is doing them any damage at all. I wonder if it's actually keeping various pests away too. Are you growing some of the same varieties in pots too? It would be interesting to know if there is any flavor difference between the pot and ground plants.

No these were leftovers and a last minute idea to put them in the ground. But that would have been a great taste test idea. I will try that in the spring!

Ginny

[Fiishergurl]

These are on the plant that I thought was everglades but the tomatoes are too large and appear to be striped and PL. Can't wait to see how they ripen... :-)

[efisakov]

Ginny, you can propagation by cuttings. Just take one of the suckers and put it in a glass with regular water. In about 2 weeks it will develop roots.

Your in ground plants will never get a BER with all the available calcium.

[Barb_FL]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I have one tomato plant that I had to tie down the cage it is in. 40 mph winds with stronger gusts blew it down. It looks kind of funny, but it works.

It will be nice comparing the two. I would like to know what you think about them.

Had a bunch of the Matts Wild Cherry ripen; and I would give the edge to Matt's. I don't know if I would grow either again; definitely not in an earthbox. I guess I prefer the supersweet 100 more and the plants aren't so massive. I have plants from cuttings and the tomatoes are much larger on smaller plants.

Salt - my almost 1 year old Porter plant has a bunch of tomatoes on it; golf ball size already.

Don't you get to grow fall tomatoes where you live?

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by Barb_FL

Had a bunch of the Matts Wild Cherry ripen; and I would give the edge to Matt's. I don't know if I would grow either again; definitely not in an earthbox. I guess I prefer the supersweet 100 more and the plants aren't so massive. I have plants from cuttings and the tomatoes are much larger on smaller plants.

Salt - my almost 1 year old Porter plant has a bunch of tomatoes on it; golf ball size already.

Don't you get to grow fall tomatoes where you live?

Barb, thank you for the update. I know if I even thought about not growing Supersweet 100 - I would have some very unhappy family members. I wonder how long in time your Porter plant will grow for you? Very interesting.

Matt's Wild Cherry was originally from Doctor Matt Liebman, in Hidalgo, Mexico. The plants can sprawl out huge! I can understand why you wouldn't want to grow them in an Earthbox. Where I want to grow Wild Cherry tomatoes - it is perfectly fine if they take over everything. The two raised beds are far from our garden in unused space. I am actually hoping the two varieties of wild tomatoes ...well, grow wild.

As for me growing fall tomatoes, yes and no. I have a porter plant that I picked 66 golf ball+ size tomatoes from today. I left over 100 more smaller ones on the vine and built a huge tent of bed sheets around and over the plant hoping to save it from the next 3 nights of freezing temperatures. The more I am learning about tomato gardening, I think next fall, I will plant some early DTM varieties.

[Fiishergurl]

Originally Posted by efisakov

Ginny, you can propagation by cuttings. Just take one of the suckers and put it in a glass with regular water. In about 2 weeks it will develop roots.

Your in ground plants will never get a BER with all the available calcium.

Efisakov,

I love to do that but I end up making more new plants than I have room for... :-) Why do I feel the need to have more more more tomato plants? Can anyone explain that?

Ginny

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by Fiishergurl

Efisakov,

I love to do that but I end up making more new plants than I have room for... :-) Why do I feel the need to have more more more tomato plants? Can anyone explain that?

Ginny

Gotta-grow-um-all. Altered Pokémon Theme

[Fiishergurl]

Here are photo updates of my two tomato plants planted in the crushed seashell, fish fertilized holes in the ground about 30 yards from the saltwater.

These two plants were planted Oct 2nd and both have about 20 tomatoes on them. These pictures were taken today 11/19. Neither plant ended up being what i had them marked as... lol.


The plant below I thought was Everglades. However the fruit is very similar in shape, size, and coloring so far as Black and Brown Boar which I do have growing so I could have mixed up seedlings. None have ripened yet though so we will have to see what happens to the color upon ripening.




The plant below was supposed to be Surpriz but the tomatoes on it have black tops (antho?) Which I dont think Surpriz has. I didnt start any seedlings with antho so not sure where this came from.




Can't wait to see how these ripen and taste!

But so far the fish in the ground test has been a success... :-)

Ginny

[Fred Hempel]

Those tomato plants look good!

[Fiishergurl]

Originally Posted by Fred Hempel

Those tomato plants look good!

Thank you Fred. I'm surprised they didnt wither up and die with all the things that seem to be wrong with their environment... :-)

BTW. .. I'm growing Blush right now and we love it! So productive and tasty. We have Purple Bumblebee growing too but waiting for more of them to ripen... only had one so far and our neighbor ate it... lol.

Ginny

[Barb_FL]

Ginny - they look really good. Good staking job and the plants are not enormous at all. So if the seedling's got mixed up, then where is the Everglades?

Salt - Another update on Matts vs Everglades - The matts was just too huge to roll under the porch so it was left out in the elements (rain/huge wind) and the tomatoes didn't split (unlike the Everglades).

[Fiishergurl]

Originally Posted by Barb_FL

Ginny - they look really good. Good staking job and the plants are not enormous at all. So if the seedling's got mixed up, then where is the Everglades?

Salt - Another update on Matts vs Everglades - The matts was just too huge to roll under the porch so it was left out in the elements (rain/huge wind) and the tomatoes didn't split (unlike the Everglades).

Hi Barb,

The Everglades was either one of the various seedlings that didnt make it early on, or got mixed up when I transplanted to solo cups, or was one of the 10 or so plants that I didnt have room for and gave away in solo cups. As a newbie I guess starting three or four seeds of 40 different types of tomato plants was a little too much for me to keep it all straight.

Ginny