How big is your garden and how many tomato plants?

[dave1949]

I have nine Early Girl tomato plants. Tons of green tomatoes, picked one pale yellow tomato so far. Pathetic. It just hasn't been warm enough to ripen them. The high today was 69* with rain and misty drizzle. For the next five days the forecast high temps are 71* to 77* with lows at 50* or below. Not tomato weather. We will be ripening tomatoes in paper bags I guess. That does hurt the flavor some.

The green and yellow beans came good, cukes are doing fine, onions, carrots and leaf lettuces are all good. Had some tasty radishes earlier, but they got woody before we could eat all of them. The sunflowers don't have open blossoms yet and here it is mid-August.

It has been an odd weather summer. Cool and dry, a one or two week period of miserable humidity with temps in the 80's, and then cool and wet.

 

[Larro Darro]

Larro...excellent watermelon. Wish I could grow them to look like that.

I started too late. The cold spring messed us up. That is just the second one I have clipped. And the rain is killing my vines. Everyday there is three or four that have split or the end is rotten. Next year I will grow more melons and less peppers.

 

[flyerdan]

I've got a sunny corner where I always put in four cherry tomato plants. This year I could only find the Sungold variety where I usually get them, so tried them. Got them in about a month earlier than normal due to warm spring, they are putting out like crazy and are ready now. Have a few corn stalks and some peas, carrots, and radishes, mostly stuff I like and just enough to eat during the season. Tomorrow I'm taking the bobcat and pickup bed trailer to the end of the street where a guy is digging up part of his lawn for an rv pad, going to get some topsoil and expand my plot for next year.

 

[cqaigy2]

Got the first one last week. Tasted great! Pretty typical for this micro-climate is they start to produce about now and really get going in September just as the weather starts to get cold and stormy.

 

[Gunny]

It's been a pretty rough year in Kentucky again for gardening. The last three years, I had to water about every week, this year I haven't watered at all and the garden has been damp or worse all summer, lots of vegetables rotted from touching the ground. It's a good thing I read about the Florida weave on here, or I'd have lost a lot of tomatoes.
Even the thornless blackberries were affected with all the rain, if they weren't picked the day they ripened, they would be so squishy that you'd mash them when you pulled them off the cane.
I just finished canning 88 quarts of juice, 42 quarts of tomatoes, didn't keep count of the green beans (we freeze and can them), sauer kraut, the list just goes on.

It's a lot of work, but it sure feels good to look at all that goodness sitting on the pantry shelves. Just looking at the tomatoes and juice has given me a craving for some chili!

We had a new assisted living place open up here and between them and the senior citizen's center, I gave away a ton of tomatoes, cabbage, green beans and bell peppers.

I took a peck of Blue Lake beans to the senior citizens center and on my next visit, two of the ladies asked me if I grew any "real string beans"? The next trip in, I took some white half runners and it tickled them to death to have "real string beans" I'll have to remember that next year

 

[sam5570]

well it's been rough on the tomatoes in this part of the country. out of 35 plants I have so far got 3 ripe tomatoes and that's it. we have had very good garden with all the rain we have had. got 130 ears of corn saterday we have picked around 4 bushel beans everything but tomatoes most everyone's plants blited I been spraying mine ever 7 days and so far so good. my next problem is going to be my potatoes if it stays wet I will need to get them out of the ground so they don't rot. I don't like to dig them before end of setember. oh checked the farmers market down next to NC line and half runner beans $45 a bushel and tomatoes $65 a bushel.

 

[DFB]

My kitchen garden is producing pretty good for a guy who's not home much. I've been overflowing with string beans. Picked peppers and some ripe tomatoes already and will pick the first of my eggplant sometime this week. There's lots of big green tomatoes.

The field report...weather has been cool at night lately. Haven't sprayed anything all summer just hand weeding and some liquid fertilizer. Only major problem was a hornworm attack between last Thurs afternoon and Saturday morning. Really strange everything was ok Thurs afternoon. It rained hard all day Friday and by 7 am Saturday morning a third of my tomatoes plants were almost stripped clean of their leaves. Found 13 of the buggers then and few more later that evening when I got back home from my all day market. Squash and cucumber pollination has been pretty pathetic most likely because of all the rain.

And the front porch herb garden is doing just great with parsley, celery. large leaf basil, rosemary, greek mountain oregano, onion chive, garlic chive, curry, thyme, sage. and mint all in pots.

Peppers green bell & cubanelle, la roma, and heirloom black plum tomato

 

[TCJatko]

Ok guys I took pics of some questions I have
Is this end blossom rot View attachment 328115

Does anyone know what this weed is it just keeps coming back, the only place I see it is in the garden, I can't find any around the yard View attachment 328116

Looks like Jimsonweed, or "locoweed".

 

[TCJatko]

I have nine Early Girl tomato plants. Tons of green tomatoes, picked one pale yellow tomato so far. Pathetic. It just hasn't been warm enough to ripen them. The high today was 69* with rain and misty drizzle. For the next five days the forecast high temps are 71* to 77* with lows at 50* or below. Not tomato weather. We will be ripening tomatoes in paper bags I guess. That does hurt the flavor some.

The green and yellow beans came good, cukes are doing fine, onions, carrots and leaf lettuces are all good. Had some tasty radishes earlier, but they got woody before we could eat all of them. The sunflowers don't have open blossoms yet and here it is mid-August.

It has been an odd weather summer. Cool and dry, a one or two week period of miserable humidity with temps in the 80's, and then cool and wet.

Same problems with tomatoes over here. I have as many as 30 fruit on one vine, the vines are huge, but they just won't ripen!

 

[jinman]

My tomatoes are on their 2nd wind. The first round was big and beautiful until we got 3" of rain over several days. That caused my unripened big tomatoes to burst and crack. I had to pick and make salsa, spaghetti sauce, and stewed tomatoes in a hurry. I probably have 6-8 gallons in the freezer. After lots of my plants died, I have about half producing small tomatoes that look pretty, but ripen just bigger than golfball size and rarely make it to baseball size. The heat just won't let them grow big. They taste great, especially early girls, but don't get that big before they ripen. I have a double row on the window sill and several Ziploc bags of small tomatoes in my refrigerator. I'm not covered in tomatoes, but I still have plenty.

My peppers have slowed down a bunch. Peppers just don't like 100+ days unless they are completely shaded. My cucumbers pretty much have given up too. The squash and okra are big and beautiful. every third day we get a bucket full of squash and we pick okra every other day to keep it from getting long and tough. I've eaten more delicious ****** Melons than the law allows. I gave a couple to my daughter and she told me they had to eat them over the sink since they are so juicy. My garden has been great. The beans and sweet peas went away weeks ago, but my blackeyed peas continue to produce. We've frozen close to 50 lb of shelled blackeyes. Last week, my wife did a major cleanout and re-organization of our chest freezer and refrigerator freezers. Otherwise, we wouldn't have room for anything else. This winter there will be no shortage of squash, okra, tomatoes and sauce/salsa, peas, and frozen beans. It's been mostly dry and hot here, but I've been very conscientious with my watering, so my garden has been great. I just don't know what to do with the gallon of cherry tomatoes on the counter getting fully ripened. I have to admit that I've eaten so many I'm getting a bit tired of them. I'll have to give a lot of them to the neighbors.