How big is your garden and how many tomato plants?

[Triguy1]

120'x24' for the main garden. 20x20 for the fruit garden. And a small asparagus patch. 36 assorted tomatoes, corn, potatoes, onions, peas, assorted greens, cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, beets, eggplant, watermelon.

Can someone come help me weed?

Jon

 

[Jstpssng]

120'x24' for the main garden. 20x20 for the fruit garden. And a small asparagus patch. 36 assorted tomatoes, corn, potatoes, onions, peas, assorted greens, cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, beets, eggplant, watermelon.

Can someone come help me weed?

Jon

Nice... and I thought that was what kids/grandkids were for.

 

[jinman]

Triguy1, is that cardboard boxes between your rows. Your garden seems healthy and productive. It sure looks to me like you have weeds under control. Just stay ahead of them. Small weeds are easier to control that big ones.

 

[sixdogs]

I thought I would be teased for what I thought was the large amount of 36 or so plants. How do you guys take care of 50 or 100 plants and what do you do with the tomatoes?

 

[DFB]

Well my little home kitchen garden is growing everyday now!

18 hot pepper plants, hot cherry, jalapeno, and hot portugal, 18 sweet peppers...a dozen cubanelle and 6 green bell. A dozen eggplants "Classic" from Harris seed and brought home two black cherry tomato plants after my marketing today so that ups it to 20 tomatoes now! Celebrity, brandywine, early girl, big boy, sweet 100, roma, and grape. There was a flat of big yellow-orange golden jubilee tomato plants I was also looking at. Maybe there will be one of those leftover after tomorrow's market too.

Wow high temp topped 92F degrees here in Vermont today

 

[Triguy1]

Triguy1, is that cardboard boxes between your rows. Your garden seems healthy and productive. It sure looks to me like you have weeds under control. Just stay ahead of them. Small weeds are easier to control that big ones.

Yes, I should not complain. The garden is doing well considering it was lawn 18 months ago. The cardboard helps keep the grass at bay, due to that fact that I have not used any chemicals.

 

[RandyBell]

I finished planting mine today 4 rows sweet corn, 3 rows green beans, 1 row of beets, watermelons, and cantaloupes.
That along with the tomatoes, zucchini, and cucumbers I guess will have to do it! I wait until stuff starts coming up before I put the electric fence up, I run 3 strands one for the ground hogs, rabbits, one for the coons, and the last for the deer!
The best way I know to get it to rain is to water the garden and flowers, of course I did tonight and now it is raining!

 

[Gunny]

I thought I would be teased for what I thought was the large amount of 36 or so plants. How do you guys take care of 50 or 100 plants and what do you do with the tomatoes?

I can tomatoes, tomato juice, spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, homemade salsa and sometimes I'll even make ketchup. I'll typically do about 120 quarts of juice alone, to keep us, my mother-in-law, the widowed lady down the street, two single mothers here in town, plus the two daughters and their families through the winter.
Then all these same people love to have fresh tomatoes, as do the several friends that love to be able come over and grab a few fresh tomatoes for "free".

I also take a lot of fresh maters to the senior center in town, they love fresh veggies and finally, I've never had any problems finding other people that want to can them, but for some reason or the other, don't have enough of their own to do it. Very few of my tomatoes ever go to waste.

 

[sixdogs]

Very admirable effort to help the old and infirm.

I can tomatoes, tomato juice, spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, homemade salsa and sometimes I'll even make ketchup. I'll typically do about 120 quarts of juice alone, to keep us, my mother-in-law, the widowed lady down the street, two single mothers here in town, plus the two daughters and their families through the winter.
Then all these same people love to have fresh tomatoes, as do the several friends that love to be able come over and grab a few fresh tomatoes for "free".

I also take a lot of fresh maters to the senior center in town, they love fresh veggies and finally, I've never had any problems finding other people that want to can them, but for some reason or the other, don't have enough of their own to do it. Very few of my tomatoes ever go to waste.

 

[TCJatko]

I can tomatoes, tomato juice, spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce, homemade salsa and sometimes I'll even make ketchup. I'll typically do about 120 quarts of juice alone, to keep us, my mother-in-law, the widowed lady down the street, two single mothers here in town, plus the two daughters and their families through the winter.
Then all these same people love to have fresh tomatoes, as do the several friends that love to be able come over and grab a few fresh tomatoes for "free".

I also take a lot of fresh maters to the senior center in town, they love fresh veggies and finally, I've never had any problems finding other people that want to can them, but for some reason or the other, don't have enough of their own to do it. Very few of my tomatoes ever go to waste.

Anybody try pickled green tomatoes? I tried a recipe I found on the internet and love 'em. I don't can them but make "refrigerator" pickles; I find canned stuff just too mushy to enjoy. Obviously I must store them in the 'fridge, but I just enjoyed my last jar (2012 season) a month or so ago. A good way to store excess production for future enjoyment.