how many tomato plants to grow for canning?
Amy Wickett
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Comments (6)First: Where are you located ? What are daily high/low temperature? How many hours of sun ? Second: Generally speaking , I inch of water per week seems to be not enough for cucumber plants. I would easily water them twice a week. Third: Best way would have been to have riche fertilized soil at planting and the supplement . At this stage, cucumber can benefit from any balanced fertilizer, or some with slightly rich in Phosphorous(for fruiting). What color are the leaves : light green, medium green, dark green ? . You have to read your plants....See MoreHow many tomatoes per plant?
Comments (11)Thanks for all of your advice and suggestions. I did a little canning last season (first time) with the 6 different verities that I planted in a small space and I think I have an addiction. LOLÂ I think I canned about 12 Â 15 quarts of tomatoes for the winter. And I'll tell ya what, they where much better then any store bought cans of tomatoes by far! I make a lot of red sauces in large quantities on a regular basic for my family and friends. And I take a lot of pride in all my sauces since I was a chef some years ago. Not to mention that my Grandmother was Sicilian, and my inspiration for Italian cooking. She taught me to use the very freshest ingredients available to me at the time of It's prime. I could go on and on about this subject but I'll move on. I buy San Marzano's (La Valle) (La Bella) and a couple of others to make my sauces. It's always a good sign to see the D.O.P. stamp on the cans. They must be a quality can tomato to go in my sauces. And if you know what I'm talking about, and I'm sure you do, theses can tomatoes can be a bit pricey. This is one of the reasons that I would like to get as many quarts of home grown quality tomatoes as possible. PS.. I also love to play in my garden, plant and eat (raw and cooked) lots of different Tomatoes. Thanks again Sandy...See MoreTomato support when growing many plants?
Comments (10)The following ideas are specifically for the original questions regarding growing a few dozen tomato plants in 4-foot wide raised beds. For other garden arrangements, I might have different responses. I have no suggestions for large scale market gardens or farming tomatoes on acreage. For short-stake determinates, I believe Florida-weave, using a T-bar fence post between every six or eight plants and rebars between every two plants alternately would be an economical and practical system. I saw this done in Anguila with great success. I mention that because they have constant 10 - 20 mph tradewinds, and the system held up very well. In a 4-foot wide raised bed, I would imagine one could get two parallel rows of short-stake determinates supported in this method by setting the rows 6 - 12 inches in from the sideboards and leaving 2 - 3 feet between rows initially. Then after weaving the support, you'd frequently have to prune the stray growth from the facing sides of the plants. For growers wanting to support several dozen indeterminates in raised beds, I believe an overhead support system using drop cords and pruning to single or double cordons is a very workable system. This would be like a greenhouse system, except outdoors in a 4-foot wide raised bed, you could use a "clothesline" crossbeam post with double lateral overhead lines, and hang drop cords to support two parallel rows of plants in the same bed. The horizontal arms of the clothesline poles could extend out over the edges of the sideboards and the cordons could be slanted out from the bed to allow more open space as the in the upper parts of the vines. The spent growth could be removed from the lower parts of the stems as harvest progressed ... just like in a greenhouse. Another system that would work for both indeterminates or determinates, when growing a few dozen plants in raised beds, would be using T-bar fence posts to support cattle panels as trellises. Again, I think one could accomplish double parallel rows in a 4-foot wide bed by slanting the panels outward from the bed slightly, and placing walk boards down the middle of the bed to prevent root damage when caring for the plants or harvesting from the inside. I'd use 5-foot fence posts for the determinates and mount the 5-foot panels 6" off the ground to get 5-1/2 foot tall trellises. For the indeterminates, I'd use 7-foot T-bar posts and mount the 5-foot tall cattle panels 18" off the ground to get 6-1/2 foot high trellises. When the vines top the 6-1/2 foot trellis, I'd top the vines and train a few side shoots horizontally along the panels grapevine style. Bill...See MoreHow many tomatoes do you grow?
Comments (42)Here are most of what I have in my garden this year. Each name on the list is at least a slightly different strain, though the names may be similar, and represents 1 to 6 plants. My biggest problem is I have so many different types of tomatoes growing from crosses going back over a decade, in some cases, that I just don't have room for all of them. MOST of the crosses I have aren't even represented in this year's crop, because I can only work on a few dozen every year. Obviously, some of those I list here are also commercial hybrids, OP varieties or Heirlooms. I grow them either because I LIKE them, and I want something standard, or I want something to compare to what I am growing, to see how mine stack up. I generally do it that way every year. One problem I find in growing out the crosses is that sometimes you will go along with a 'new' strain that looks promising, growing it for several years, and then the next year it changes (as you bring out recessive traits) and takes a step back in color, size, flavor, or some other characteristic, and I need to go back to seeds from a previous year and try to again bring out the traits I liked. As you can see, among other things, this year I am emphasizing some EARLY strains and some cherry tomatoes, trying to see how they stack up. 4th of July Amber Sweet (a cherry I am developing) Andalusia H 4B1-2 (From tomatoes I got in Spain) ARGG Black Krim X Galinas red S4-G (in development) Black Krim X Galinas (Red H) (in development) Black Krim X Galinas Red 3B5-6 Black Magic (in development) Box Car Willie Brandy X Polish M5-S Brandy X Polish F3A H Brandy X Stupice Brandywine Cherry Brandywine OTV Brandywine X Kotlas Brandywine X Polish H. PL 5A3-4 Brandywine X Polish PL 5A7-8 Brandywine X Stupice Capitan H Cherokee Chocolate Cherokee Green Cherry Master (in development) Comandante Zero (in development) Dulcinea Med Red (in development) Dulcita Small Red F4 (Smaller seeds than Dulcinea) H 4A7-8 Early Goliath Early Wonder Galinas X Black Krim Yellow (in development) Galinas X Black Krim Yellow (strain #5) Garden H 4B5-6 Green Zebra Isis Candy Islas Canarias (from tomatoes I got in Spain) Kotlas Little Lucky Lucky Cross Lucky Cross Pink Marianas Cross F4 Lg Red Cherry Marianna's Peace More Capitan 1 5B5-6 New Black Plums (F3 growout) New Yellow Cherry Oh My Pink Heck (Medium) (in development) Orange H (in development) Orange Meaty medium sized tomato from Mariann's Peace and Jaune Flamme cross. Purple Russian Racimo de Espana (another one from Spain) RED Beef F3 Red H (in development) Red Large Beefy (in development) Rescue H 5B3-4 Rose Quartz Small Black Cherry (from 2010 cross) Sunfire? H Super Sweet 100s Super Sweet Yellow Pear (in development) Super Sweet Yellow Pear F3A (from 2012) Super Sweet Yellow Pear F3B (from 2012) Sweet Orange Golf Ball (from crosses I made) Sweet Yellow Gold F4 (From Galinas x Black Krim H 4A5-6) Yellow H (in development)...See Morebcomplx
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