Awesome looking plants. You do a very nice job. I hope you will be enjoying them soon.

Jay

Wow. My plants are little twerps compared to yours.

Trust me when I say I would gladly give up some size to have fruits that were 2 or 3 weeks further along! So many cool nights and poor pollenation conditions early on this season. Well if weather holds up now I should have a massive harvest in 5 or 6 weeks, most of the large varieties have 20-50 fruits and tons of flowers that are likely about to be pollenized. For anyone close to Richmond Hill I might have to leave them on the curb with a 'free' sign...

Could that unknown red beefstake be a Brandywine ? Has the same potato type leaves as mine. Anyway, fantastic tomato plants. They are so much taller than mine. What the heck are you growing them in ??

Healthy, lush and green are the words that come to mind when looking at your photos. Here in Ca. my plants are looking pretty old and weathered.

Damon

Beautiful... You must be so proud! I can't wait to see your harvest pics.

Amazing! I am so jealous of all of your gorgeous plants! :-) How long is your tomato growing season in zone 5?

*sigh* I was doing ok till I saw the the last tomato pic then I felt my knees go weak. Up till then I thought I might have that many tomatoes on my plants too but it's hard to tell because I'm letting them sprawl this year. But that last photo I know I don't have anything that big yet in my zone 5 garden. Our weather here is just like you described in your post, anthony_toronto. Good luck with your garden it looks like you're going to have quite a harvest. :)

Galiano, are you looking at the pic above or below my 'unknown beefsteak' comment? The one above is brandywine, but the one below (the unknown) actually has regular leaves, which might not be clear from the pic. Just have them in regular old triple mix. My 'seedlings' were large when planted (if I plant small seedlings, they just don't have enough time to produce a lot of fruit in my short season). I use dilute MG from time to time, some high P initially to help roots, then some high N to get the plants going a bit, then more high P later to promote flowering. I apply a lot less than the directions suggest. Also mulched this year for the first time. Other than that, we have not had a lot of rain so I have been able to control the water, and despite the cool weather there has been a fair bit of sun. However, despite the attractive plants, fruits are still at least 2 to 3 weeks behind where they normally are.

Star stuff, the typically relied upon last frost date is around May 24 (which coincides with one of our statutory holiday weekends), but for the last few years the weather has been far too cold to plant on that date. We had frost near the end of May this year, and in the first week of June last year. So, end of the first week of June was when plants went in the ground for me. Won't get frost again until end of Sept. or maybe October, but I have found that fruits that I harvest after the end of August tend to be a bit sub-par in terms of texture and flavour. With ideal conditions I would usually be harvesting great fruit from the middle of July to the end of August, with a few outliers coming early, and plenty of second-rate fruits in sept and into oct.

Humidity finally starting to show up now, along with some warmer nights, and a few more months of this should help the fruit grow nice and big. Of course that weather tends to wreak a bit of havoc on the foliage, but thats ok as long as I get to start eating tomatoes soon.