Steve, seeds not hard to get for Amish Paste. This plant was from
my 2007 seed pack from SSE. If you want some later, I can send
you some..
catman, Some of my tomatoes are getting that catfacing. No insect.
Others do not have that problem. I'm hoping the new tomatoes on my
CP come out ok. Had some thing on Aunt Ruby's and Kellogg's Breakfast.

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These plants surprised me by how big they got and now they are REALLY productive.

Contrary to all of the stakes, this image shows only 2 plants. Carmello and Arkansas Traveler. Carmello is out producing AK 3 to 1.

Great looking plants Julieann...looks like it's getting to be a jungle.

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My first ever garden

Here is a link that might be useful:

Large Barred Boar starting to show his stripes

Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye

A couple nice Big Beef Clusters

Sungold starting to ripen :)

Red Brandywine(I think)

Cherokee Purp

Crazy, gnarley, massive, Cherokee Purple Catfaced monster, the thing is huge

Brian

How'd this get in here? ;-) Not a post to try and get to Part 8...lol. I had to share this one with mater group...

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TNVG - Is that a wild strawberry or a cultivated one?

bdobs - so Roper got an evil cat grin Cherokee Purple, but you've got the evil Cat Monster CP...looks like CP is very prone to catfacing. ;)

I'm growing Indian Stripe which is supposedly a variation of CP, but so far, all the fruit I've seen aren't catfaced. I can't wait for ripe ones...I've heard nothing but good about the variety.

Catman, I'm sure your disappointed lol

But I think the catfacing comes w/ early toms that are fused.

I don't think I posted my seedlings, but here's a few in the garden.

Chocolate Cherokee
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SungoldF1 picked 2 last week, and another close

Here is a link that might be useful: Slide show 6-13

Agreed, I'm pretty sure that guy was from a fused blossom. Its about the size of a softball.

catman: cultivated.

I may be busy very soon ;)
I hope that Mountain Glory is a good mater because it has been a pretty plant and appears to be a workhorse ...

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Some Brandywines at 5 ft now and loading up again ...

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The wife made her 2nd trip of the season to the mater patch this evening to see what I had been doing all day and she too vowed that I would never plant this many again. At least that is what I gathered ... mainly a bunch of mumbling and all I could catch was a bunch of What ..., Why ..., I don't know ... ;)

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Wow I wish I had that much land to grow on.

I convinced the wife (wasn't hard) that I should expand my little garden since it is doing so well. Last weekend I built a picket fence to keep the dogs out and painted it today. It appears to be working.

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I would have planted them a little further apart if I knew they would grow this large. One is an early, one is "the best tomato" and I'm not sure of the third.

This one's a monster about 6' by 3' and has a ton of tomatoes. some are starting to ripen.

The cherries are so loaded one of them collapsed. I will have to prop it up with some more bamboo.

Here are some of my tomatoes, all started from seed, planted out May 7 except for the cherries which were planted on April 21.

Our back yard before and after (we have been here a year).

Here's Ponderosa Red and the Red Sausage I was telling you about...

The next three are from a Jung Seed Heirloom sampler..could be Amish Paste, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Black Brandywine, German Johnson, Giant Oxheart, Mortgage Lifter, Orange Strawberry, Pineapple, Red Brandywine, Watermelon Beefsteak, White Wonder, or Yellow Brandywine. Your guesses desired!

And, some cousins that go better with tomatoesÂ.

kterlep - I see you've got Riesentraube as well. My single plant of this variety has some huge trusses like yours...I can't wait to see how many fruit I get from them. We'll be on vacation when many of the flowers open, so it will be up to the wind and insects to ensure good pollination and fruit set.

Hey eveyone...wanted to share my pics..started them from from seed and planted May 4, 2009...result on 6/14/09

Sungold

garden Pic

sirdanny - awesome looking tomatoes. Is that Cyprus mulch you are using? I just got a few bags to put down in my garden and I'm hoping it will work OK. The main reason is to prevent splattering mud up onto the plants during watering.

thanks catman.

yes it is cyprus mulch from lowes. About 2.25 per bag or so.

catman, I try not to mess with my tomatoes, I have a stupid habit of knocking dried blossoms off that are apparently not quite ready to be knocked off.

sirdanny - I just got a few bags of the exact same stuff (cyprus mulch from Lowe's) and I just put it out under my tomatoes on top of a 1-inch layer of half-composted organic matter as a nutrient booster. Finally I don't have to worry about mud splattering everywhere.

kterlep - I do the same thing often. But I think some of the varieties I'm growing are faster to pollinate and set fruit, so it's not too much of a problem. I've noticed the big beefsteak-type tomatoes take a lot longer to start swelling fruit after the flower dies.

Nice lookin maters, all! sirdanny: Yours looks about ready to eat. Cooking some bacon later? =)

I want to cry looking at all of your wonderful tomatoes. Mine have just started to flower, and they are unreasonably small. First try, I hope to at least get a few! :)

I've only just started to fill in my online documentation, and so because it's still early in the season here I have only a few photos per variety.

This year I'm doing the last half of the USDA/ARS/GRIN tomato seeds that WinterSown received in 2007. The tomatoes are again from temperate zones with some quite cold winters.

Hopefully, they'll present a nice set of fruits worthy of sharing. The first to sprout was Islea, from the Netherlands--the USDA description says it's a round and red slicer. The very last to sprout was Rumi Banjan (an entirely different plant from Banjan Roomii which was in the 2008 set. Rumi Banjan will be yellow and Banjan Roomii is a wonderful small red beefsteak.

As the season progresses I'll upload more photos to the pages--I'll also include whatever problems come along--documentation is what it is and you get the bitter with the sweet.

T

Here is a link that might be useful: 2009 Tomatoes

TNVG - actually most of my ripe tomatoes are the cherry variety. I do have three on the counter from a better bush that are just about ripe and will post. Not too bad for June 15th in zone 6b.

Yea...dangit, i'm starting my maters on February 1st next year! ;-)

Well finally getting some cherry tomatoes here in N.VA will be waiting a few more weeks for the larger one's.

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george

geeboss: Lookin good. =) I'm about on the same schedule as you. I have Cherry's turning any day now & my San Marzano's and Early Girl's will be showing up & ripe in about a month - month and 1/2.

I'm getting impatient...I want MY tomatoes to ripen!

Update:

We're headed out on vacation tomorrow, and I'm sure this thread will need to be updated to Part 8 while we're gone.

TNVG, or anyone else willing, feel free to start Part 8 when this thread gets too full. Use the same layout (some HTML required).

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Sorry for rambling on about techincal stuff! Just thought I would offer it as a tip; it's nothing really important, just something I personally like to be consistent with . ;)

Keep on posting the great pics! I will still be able to look at the thread while on vacation, but obviously I won't have any new photos to post (and that's why I can't start part 8!)

This weekend...tomatoes in the salad. Stupice

Anna's Russian coming along too

Had the first mater sandwich Sunday and am starting to feel much better with each one ;)
So I pulled some a bit early today but they were calling for heavy rains tonight and they seemed scared so ...
The Brandywine weighed in at 1 lb 1.1 oz, the Mountain Glory above it 10.4 oz

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catman: Ahhh...good to know. =) I was wondering how to do that part...lol.

Most of my tomato plants are coming along nicely.

Pic of my Big Beef plant:

First green tomato on my Sweet Baby Girl cherry tomato:

I finally took some pictures with my good camera. :)

First, here's the back view of the little tomato farm.

I have five tomato varieties - cherry red (two in the same pot), a beefmaster, golden jubilee, super fantastic and jet star.

The cherry red set fruit first - here's the oldest set. But I have a ton all over both plants.

The Beefmaster is doing great as well. I have a big cluster towards the bottom, but here's the newest - I love how ribbed it is.

The Golden Jubilee surprised me - it was the runt of the litter for a long time, but then it suddenly sprouted fruit.

Sungold is second variety to ripen in my garden (after stupice)

9/20/2009 pics

Sun Gold

Black Cherry

Sweet Million/Sun Gold/Black Chery
I got my labels mixed up. But it has to be one of these.
I don't know why the funny shape.

My bad. No Viagra as fertilizer next year!!!

hahahaha..Pecker Hybrids, eh? ;-)

lol!

UPDATE
Oh they are starting to ripen. These are some kind of cherrie and I had a few today. They taste so good.

All my peppers are starting to bear fruit. I'm not sure why these bells have dark joints though.

I have about 5 of thses as well.

Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden

That weenie-mater is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I love it!

milque toast - That is too hilarious!!!

bumping this one so no one else posts in original Part 1. ;-) Whoever that was (i'm too laxy to look...lol), repost on here.

- Steve

milque toast.. That's one funny tomato. You gave me a good laugh.

Linda

All of you should be so proud! I just did my first "garden" if you want to call it that this year. I live in TN and the soil is red clay so it was hard to get them planted etc. I have only had 4 tomatoes show up. Two were already ripe enough to eat and they were wonderful! ;) Is it normal to only have 4 though?? I have had lots of flowers but they die... I have 4 plants. 2 Bradleys, 1 Better Boy, and 1 Celebrity.. Any advice? I have heard if you cut the top off they will produce more??

I don't know why part 8 and 9 are going this one needs another 97 posts.

I've been trying to figure out what this is, it was supposed to be a Cherokee chocolate but it's not.

This is Vinson Watts in the foreground and Willard Wynn in the back, I'm hoping for some more fruit set before the heat really sets in.

Marianna's Peace in the front VW and WW in back

Marianna's Peace

More Marianna's Peace

Still more Marianna's Peace

Vinson Watts

Willard Wynn plant1

Willard Wynn plant1

Willard Wynn plant 2 straw bale

WW2 straw bale

WW2 resident - another in the corn

9 toms in three raised beds

6 toms in straw bales, very underwhelming

Gratuitous shot of the corn,

Bump

Lets fill up part 7 and then come back to parts 8 and 9 folks.

Why? They've already been started and posting in old ones messes up the sequence of pictures.

Just go and post in Part 9, please. The reason I like to break these up into smaller parts is for people with slower internet connection. Many people here are posting many large photos, 50 posts of which can be really slow to load for some people.

So let's not bump this thread anymore and post in Part 9.

Just thought it was odd they were getting started when the old ones aren't even 1/2 full. Part 9 it is.