How big is your garden and how many tomato plants?
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bp fick
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Had a bumper crop last year from 120 plants. We sold over 20 bushels of tomatoes. Most prolific tomato year in memory and this from plants that saw less than 2" of natural rain fall. We'll start seeds in cells around March 15th. The plants won't go to the field until Memorial Weekend. They'll get re-potted twice along the way. We only grow determinate tomatoes as our growing season is so short, that frost determines that we grow determinate. 
wyeguy
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Don't know about Ferrari, but we can them, make juice, salsa, relish (from green tomatoes), rotell type mix, spahgetti sauce, fried green tomatos, and share a lot. 9200 sq ft garden, 35-40 tomato plants is too many on a good year, but the variety make for awesome taste.
Larro Darro
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Margie makes a mean tomato pie. Last year was an off year for our tomatoes. But we made more peppers than we knew what to do with. If the rain will hold off, I'm thinking about tilling up the garden tomorrow. I hope we don't have a crazy cold spring, and wet summer like last year.
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ferrari99
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Bottle (canning but slightly different) them, eat them, give them away and cook them and have them on toast :thumbsup:, would like to sell but that hasn't happened yet. Most of them are on irrigation so that makes it easy.
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I have learned more about drying gourds over this winter and even ones that seem not fully mature will dry just fine a long as the stem browns some before picked. Some may mold but you can scrub them clean with an aggressive scrubby brush and detergent when they are fully dry. Leave them outside for the winter and they will mold less. Freezing doesn't bother them. I'll post a photo when I get a chance.
Larro Darro
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I noticed the greener they were, the more likely they were to rot. I'll try to watch the stems this season when I'm picking. Thanks for that info.
Part of the tools we brought back from Georgia last week was a Drimmel tool. Margie has been wanting one to craft her gourds with, so she is eager for me to get the gourds planted. I burned the brush pile where they were before, so as soon as I pick up any unburnt wood and till it up, I'll be ready to plant. But I have three or maybe four kinds to plant this year, and I want to save seeds. That means I will have to spread out to prevent cross pollination.
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Larro Darro
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So far I have Beefsteak, Cherry and Roma tomatoes. I bought some of the little $2.00 seed packets at the Farmer's Co-Op, and didn't even use all the seeds in the packets. Thank the Good Lord, Margie is giving a lot of the plants away. But this morning when I went in the freezer to get the Banana Cantaloupe seeds, I found four kinds of pepper seeds I want to plant. I'm glad I made the garden bigger this year.
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gwdixon
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Eleven regular tomato plants. Seven cherry tomatoes. Bought 50 cu. ft. of composted steer manure. Some of it just to spread, some to concentrate on the zucchini and squash, the rest go to the tomatoes. Should be productive.
This is a canning year.
This is a canning year.
