A gallery of my tomatoes

Vinny · April 22, 2012

Just thought Id share some photos of how my tomatoes are doing. It was raining when I took these. I take some pretty bad pictures so sorry for the out of focus ones. These are all 7 or 10 gallon smartpots. The stakes are 6 foot and are around a foot into the ground.

Vinny · April 22, 2012

Btw these are a mix of Brandywine OTV (2), Cherokee Purple, Black Crimson, Aunt Gernies Gold, Black Cherry, Paul Roberson (2) and Taps (2). The one in the raised bed is a Amish Gold. There's a determinate called Cream sausage in a kitty litter bucket that's fairly small, forgot to get a closeup of that. The little black plastic pots are mostly marigolds that have been eaten to stubs by rabbits.

Vinny · April 22, 2012

A couple I couldn't get on the first post.

gssgarden · April 22, 2012

Looking good and healthy!! Great start!

Greg

RayR · April 22, 2012

Looks like things are moving right along nicely Vinny.

kath · April 22, 2012

Happy plants, Vinny- you'll soon be enjoying the harvest! Thanks for posting your pics.

jennifer28 · April 22, 2012

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Originally Posted by Vinny

Btw these are a mix of Brandywine OTV (2), Cherokee Purple, Black Crimson, Aunt Gernies Gold, Black Cherry, Paul Roberson (2) and Taps (2). The one in the raised bed is a Amish Gold. There's a determinate called Cream sausage in a kitty litter bucket that's fairly small, forgot to get a closeup of that. The little black plastic pots are mostly marigolds that have been eaten to stubs by rabbits.

Hey vinny,

very nice! Have you grown cream sausage before? I have grown them in years past - I'm not growing them this year, but when I grew them I found they made a nice white pasta sauce. I did find them a bit dry for fresh eating, but that white pasta sauce was a hit.

Vinny · April 22, 2012

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Originally Posted by jennifer28

Hey vinny,

very nice! Have you grown cream sausage before? I have grown them in years past - I'm not growing them this year, but when I grew them I found they made a nice white pasta sauce. I did find them a bit dry for fresh eating, but that white pasta sauce was a hit.

This is my second year attempting them. last year I had terrible germination rates with them and the few plants I had were just sickly looking. This might be the first year I'll actually be able taste them. I'm not sure I'll have enough for sauce, it takes so many tomatoes to make sauce I was really surprised the first time I tried last year by how many it took. Maybe I'll get enough to make a small batch though.

jennifer28 · April 22, 2012

That is odd about the germination rates. I do have a friend near Montreal where I got my cream sausage tomato seeds. I had 95% germination rate from those seeds. I didn't pre treat the seeds, I just sowed them.

I am wondering if you had old seed? maybe save some seeds from this batch and then you will have fresh seed for next year. There is also a bleach/water pre-soak that TGRC recommends:
http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/seed_germ.aspx

I had very good luck with that method this year. There is another method that uses potassium permanganate, but this bleach one is convenient and easy. I first read about it here and it really works well.

Vinny · April 22, 2012

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Originally Posted by jennifer28

That is odd about the germination rates. I do have a friend near Montreal where I got my cream sausage tomato seeds. I had 95% germination rate from those seeds. I didn't pre treat the seeds, I just sowed them.

I am wondering if you had old seed? maybe save some seeds from this batch and then you will have fresh seed for next year. There is also a bleach/water pre-soak that TGRC recommends:
http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/seed_germ.aspx

I had very good luck with that method this year. There is another method that uses potassium permanganate, but this bleach one is convenient and easy. I first read about it here and it really works well.

I get most of my seed from the tomatofest website and never have germination issues for the most part. I'm deffinantly going to save seed from these if I like them. thanks for the tip on the presoak, sounds interesting.
Cream sausage is also the first determinate variety I've ever grown, so I'm interested to see how well it produces.

ExpendableZero · April 22, 2012

Looking good, but i can only see the thumbnails. I hope mine are doing that well in a few more weeks.

Vinny · May 13, 2012

New pics lots of tomatoes

Vinny · May 13, 2012

More new pics
Hopefully I can keep the fungal plague at bay long enough for them to ripen.

lakelady · May 15, 2012

wow Vinnie, those plants are really producing! Great job with your little tomato "farm"!

Fungus, ugh! NJ is a very humid state, and I live on water, so even one town away from me the humidity is much less. This year, thanks to reading posts on TV, I am treating prophylaxis with fungicide early on and hoping to keep fungus at bay. Hoping!

Good luck with the harvest and thanks for sharing pics!

livinonfaith · May 16, 2012

Those are just beautiful! You must be doing something very right!

May 15, 2012	#14
lakelady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: northern NJ zone 6b Posts: 1,862	wow Vinnie, those plants are really producing! Great job with your little tomato "farm"! Fungus, ugh! NJ is a very humid state, and I live on water, so even one town away from me the humidity is much less. This year, thanks to reading posts on TV, I am treating prophylaxis with fungicide early on and hoping to keep fungus at bay. Hoping! Good luck with the harvest and thanks for sharing pics! __________________ Antoniette

April 22, 2012	#2
Vinny Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: Homosassa, FL Posts: 63	Btw these are a mix of Brandywine OTV (2), Cherokee Purple, Black Crimson, Aunt Gernies Gold, Black Cherry, Paul Roberson (2) and Taps (2). The one in the raised bed is a Amish Gold. There's a determinate called Cream sausage in a kitty litter bucket that's fairly small, forgot to get a closeup of that. The little black plastic pots are mostly marigolds that have been eaten to stubs by rabbits.

April 22, 2012	#4
gssgarden Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: N.C. Posts: 1,827	Looking good and healthy!! Great start! Greg

April 22, 2012	#5
RayR Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Cheektowaga, NY Posts: 2,466	Looks like things are moving right along nicely Vinny.

April 22, 2012	#6
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	Happy plants, Vinny- you'll soon be enjoying the harvest! Thanks for posting your pics.

April 22, 2012	#9
jennifer28 Two-faced Drama Queen Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital Posts: 955	That is odd about the germination rates. I do have a friend near Montreal where I got my cream sausage tomato seeds. I had 95% germination rate from those seeds. I didn't pre treat the seeds, I just sowed them. I am wondering if you had old seed? maybe save some seeds from this batch and then you will have fresh seed for next year. There is also a bleach/water pre-soak that TGRC recommends: http://tgrc.ucdavis.edu/seed_germ.aspx I had very good luck with that method this year. There is another method that uses potassium permanganate, but this bleach one is convenient and easy. I first read about it here and it really works well.

April 22, 2012	#11
ExpendableZero Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Alabama Zone: 7b Posts: 49	Looking good, but i can only see the thumbnails. I hope mine are doing that well in a few more weeks.

May 16, 2012	#15
livinonfaith Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina Posts: 1,332	Those are just beautiful! You must be doing something very right!