Maters, maters... everywhere

14 years ago

Been roasting tomatos, with onions, peppers and garlic .. all home grown... for making pasta sauce... This mornng I picked a bushel of tomatos to cut and roast... along with some other goodies from our garden...

The house smells phenominal !! Yummmmmm

Carolyn

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Marilyn Sue
14 years ago
Our tomatoes are just beginning to get ripe, we will probably just can salsa and tomato juice with ours as well as eat them fresh. I think I am farther north than you are. I love a fresh garden tomato!

Sue in Central Indiana
sheilajoyce_gw
14 years ago
Ohhh, I envy you. We have too much shade to grow them.
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that is the sickest plant. . Here comes the 2nd sickest plant. . I had no problem uprooting "the instigator" because he had no fruit.....but these guys.... That would be a huge boner....okay so i seem to have stopped it in its tracks for now, those two plants both grew adjacent to "the instigator" and adjacent to one another actually. I have left on just enough sick leaves so i can tell if it progresses. . Most plants have 2 or 3 sick leaves now. . These two plants have probably dropped or had clipped 75-100 sick leaves each (maybe as much as half their foliage) over the last 5 days...... So, i think its under control but if i have to spray daily its gonna get pricey!! . Thanks for the ideas, ill try tomato forums, my tomatos had it last year.... But not this year. (so far my disease resistant seeds have panned out in my squash, cukes, zukes, and maters) i couldnt find much about disease resistant peppers..... Maybe thats cuz i got most of my seeds from amazon, hence my next "what is this?" post in the forum. Hahaha thanks pepper hounds! P. S. That first plant grew really weird..... Responded well to being topped in march or april, but then about a month ago stopped growing upwards completely and started loading up on fruit..... Im not conplaining or really even concerned but it was very odd, unlike any of my other 20 plants. It just started to grow tens of single leaves at the end of each branch and just stopped growing, except for one chute that broke free about 2 weeks ago..... Anyone experienced this? Thanks yall.
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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
I have a bowl of fresh ones in the kitchen but not from my garden! I have to buy them at the farm market. I sure wish I had that sink full! Lucky lucky!
blfenton
14 years ago
Today is the second day of summer sunshine for us. We have had rain since forever. It will be a looooooong time before my tomatoes are ready for anything.
lindyluwho
14 years ago
Those look delish! I got plenty of Sweet 100 tomatoes but so far only 2 big tomatoes. The dogs have been eating them before they get ripe. GRRRRRR.
tobygirl
14 years ago
That's quite a beautiful sight, Carolyn! I did the roasting like you last year for the first time, and it's the way to go.

No tomatoes in our garden this year.
kayjones
14 years ago
Oh, send ME SOME! IMHO, there's nothing better tasting than a sun kissed tomato fresh from the vine and still warm, sprinkled with a bit of salt - YUM!
brightonborn
14 years ago
OMG that is a sight to behold... good growin'.

June
ont_gal
14 years ago
oh you are soooo lucky to be able to grow and harvest such lovely tomatoes.

Like my corn,mine won't be ready for a few weeks yet-quite a few weeks
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14 years ago
I am going to pick a couple more baskets of maters and take them to the church for folks that can't or don't have a garden for one reason or another... and probably a big basket of corn as well... There are way more than we need... plus we are going away for a week...

We both love growing things.. and I have been having a veggie garden since I can remember, some 50+ years or so.. some big gardens, and some were tiny.. and in pots... but always had some lettuce, cukes, squash, and maters.. those are must haves... lol

Carolyn
jannie
14 years ago
I have 7 heirloom tomato plants in my back-yard garden. Lots of little greenies, nothing to pick so far.
jae_tn2
14 years ago
Thyey are beautiful! I'll pay postage!
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Original Author
14 years ago
Jae, where in TN. are you.... you want to come pick some?? We have about 400 plants.... LOL
jae_tn2
14 years ago
I'm near Knoxville and I would find you in a minute if I thought my wheelchair would fit in your garden!
User
Original Author
14 years ago
Sweety,, if his big ol Kioti will fit down some of the aisles, you wheelchair would too... but if you came .... we would pick for you... and let you sit in the shade sipping lemonade.... *smile* How bout some okra?? Peppers? Mild and hot Jalapeno peppers.. and bells and there are a few cabbages left as well.....

You can come out and spend the night here... All of our doorways are wheelchair accessable.. not a problem..

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