Winter harvest still pumping em out!

Vince · January 8, 2007

Well I have had a nice fall and now winter harvest. Got a a lot of big beefs, stupice, and sungold still on the vine. The Brandyboys and Gregoris altai will be finished within 2 weeks. This is my first fall/winter tom garden and I have to say it was well worth the effort. The highlights of the year were picking 1lb plus pinks on christmas day and new years day. The draw backs were dealing with the VERY srtong fall/winter winds here in inland SoCal. Several of my stakes snapped and plants toppled over. When pulling my my plants in the last few weeks I have noticed that I have a preety bad root Knot nematode problem. I don't know where they came from but I am fearful for my spring crop of tomatoes this year. Does anybody have and reliable organic solutions to this problem? I will only be living at this residence for one more growing season so if it is a disaster I will be moving on to hopefully untanted pastures. I started seed on sunday for this year( the list is as follows).

A new Italian heirloom, powerful luscious flavor, 10 plants
Brandy wine 10 plants (possible heat resistent selection)
Brandy wine Suddith 5 plants
Brad's Black Heart 10 plants
Brandy boy 2 pants
Cherokee Purple 5 plants
Earls Faux 5 Plants
Grubbs Mystery Green 2 plants
Persimmon 2 plants
Stupice 5 plants

I have aq few more places for outstanding varities if anyone has any in put on what they should be please speak up. Cheers.

Vince.

Earl · January 9, 2007

Aunt Gertie's Gold
Yellow Brandywine

bydsign · January 11, 2007

I still have 'maters on several tomato plants in my urban
container garden. I have the DIY-earthboxes.

Brandywine - several yet to ripen, some 1st blush, 2 almost
ripe

Sungold - perpetually loaded up with ripe fruit

Cherokee Purple - 2 getting some color, several still green
and coming along nicely

Red Brandywine (wannabe) - picked a ripe one today and gave
it to my roofing contractor with the warning: if he ate it he
might become my love slave!

He loved it!

Orange heirloom - I took clippings from this plant and
gave 3 transplants to my neighbor, kept 1 for myself.
There are new blossoms and fruitset on this plant.

Uncle Steve's Oxheart - this plant is tall and scraggly
enough so I dragged it to the perimeter of the garden,
along the fence to make room for some new seedlings
that are coming along nicely now.

Then... I have more Sungold and Matt's Wild Cherry just
outside my fence (encroaching upon the Condo's Common
Area

) that are just starting to set fruit.

Current seedlings:

Paul Robeson - 5 wk old seedlings

New Big Dwarf - even the seedlings are dwarf

all kinds of Brandywine seedlings - just a few days old

I got seeds on the way for:

Black Cherry
Matina
Brandywine Red, Landis Valley strain
Sweet Baby girl
and I think TGS will send Marianna's Peace for FREE

I'm really outta control!

**wondering how I can encroach upon my neighbor's
fenced yard...**

bydsign · January 11, 2007

Gee... I forgot to mention the Brandy Boy which just produced
2 ripe fruit. It's really scraggly looking. Took quite a hit from
some fungus but I noticed a couple more fruit trying to set.
I'm gonna drag this one to the perimeter of the garden.
Will plant more B Boy seedlings shortly.

Vince · January 14, 2007

The season is done, had a killing frost last night. I picked around 20 large greenies(Big Beef) the night before. The rest froze solid.

Does any Body know if the frozen Toms will ripen normally? My guess is no.

Well, I have about 180 seedlings up so all is not lost.

bydsign, do you all every get a freeze in florida?
Good luck with the gardening!

Worth1 · January 14, 2007

My wife has been taking care of heat wave tomatoes in containers and I have a green tomato on one of them.
She has been moving them in and out of the car port as the weather permits.

May be they will last till spring and they will really take off.
Who knows?

At least she has kept them alive, that is a good start.

Worth

DavidinCT · January 14, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by bydsign

I got seeds on the way for:

Black Cherry
Matina
Brandywine Red, Landis Valley strain
Sweet Baby girl
and I think TGS will send Marianna's Peace for FREE

TGS sent me a free package last week. Then another this week (I made the mistake of reading this forum and found 8 more varieties I really, really had to have so re-ordered before the first order arrived).

Sounds like a great Florida garden. Only varieties I tried in the Palm Beaches were Rutgers and a Big Boy something or other from Home Depot. The Rutgers I started from seed. It produced from the last week in Decemeber until the end of March (thought it was a determinate!). The 4 HD plants were leggy when I got them, grew 5 feet, got chewed to pieces in one night by green caterpillar creatures, recovered the vegatative growth from that but produced less than two dozen watery, fiberous tasteless fruits.

bydsign · January 14, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vince_chemist

bydsign, do you all every get a freeze in florida?
Good luck with the gardening!

Not here in South Florida.

I don't know what a "freeze" would even look like!

I'm a 3rd-generation native of South Florida and I can't
take 'da cold... 8) ...much like the 'mater plants.

January 8, 2007	#1
Vince Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Riverside, CA Posts: 942	Winter harvest still pumping em out! Well I have had a nice fall and now winter harvest. Got a a lot of big beefs, stupice, and sungold still on the vine. The Brandyboys and Gregoris altai will be finished within 2 weeks. This is my first fall/winter tom garden and I have to say it was well worth the effort. The highlights of the year were picking 1lb plus pinks on christmas day and new years day. The draw backs were dealing with the VERY srtong fall/winter winds here in inland SoCal. Several of my stakes snapped and plants toppled over. When pulling my my plants in the last few weeks I have noticed that I have a preety bad root Knot nematode problem. I don't know where they came from but I am fearful for my spring crop of tomatoes this year. Does anybody have and reliable organic solutions to this problem? I will only be living at this residence for one more growing season so if it is a disaster I will be moving on to hopefully untanted pastures. I started seed on sunday for this year( the list is as follows). A new Italian heirloom, powerful luscious flavor, 10 plants Brandy wine 10 plants (possible heat resistent selection) Brandy wine Suddith 5 plants Brad's Black Heart 10 plants Brandy boy 2 pants Cherokee Purple 5 plants Earls Faux 5 Plants Grubbs Mystery Green 2 plants Persimmon 2 plants Stupice 5 plants I have aq few more places for outstanding varities if anyone has any in put on what they should be please speak up. Cheers. Vince. __________________ Vince

January 11, 2007	#3
bydsign Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Zone 10 - South Florida Posts: 91	I still have 'maters on several tomato plants in my urban container garden. I have the DIY-earthboxes. Brandywine - several yet to ripen, some 1st blush, 2 almost ripe Sungold - perpetually loaded up with ripe fruit Cherokee Purple - 2 getting some color, several still green and coming along nicely Red Brandywine (wannabe) - picked a ripe one today and gave it to my roofing contractor with the warning: if he ate it he might become my love slave! He loved it! Orange heirloom - I took clippings from this plant and gave 3 transplants to my neighbor, kept 1 for myself. There are new blossoms and fruitset on this plant. Uncle Steve's Oxheart - this plant is tall and scraggly enough so I dragged it to the perimeter of the garden, along the fence to make room for some new seedlings that are coming along nicely now. Then... I have more Sungold and Matt's Wild Cherry just outside my fence (encroaching upon the Condo's Common Area ) that are just starting to set fruit. Current seedlings: Paul Robeson - 5 wk old seedlings New Big Dwarf - even the seedlings are dwarf all kinds of Brandywine seedlings - just a few days old I got seeds on the way for: Black Cherry Matina Brandywine Red, Landis Valley strain Sweet Baby girl and I think TGS will send Marianna's Peace for FREE I'm really outta control! wondering how I can encroach upon my neighbor's fenced yard... __________________ Darlette

January 11, 2007	#4
bydsign Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Zone 10 - South Florida Posts: 91	Gee... I forgot to mention the Brandy Boy which just produced 2 ripe fruit. It's really scraggly looking. Took quite a hit from some fungus but I noticed a couple more fruit trying to set. I'm gonna drag this one to the perimeter of the garden. Will plant more B Boy seedlings shortly. __________________ Darlette

January 14, 2007	#5
Vince Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Riverside, CA Posts: 942	The season is done, had a killing frost last night. I picked around 20 large greenies(Big Beef) the night before. The rest froze solid. Does any Body know if the frozen Toms will ripen normally? My guess is no. Well, I have about 180 seedlings up so all is not lost. bydsign, do you all every get a freeze in florida? Good luck with the gardening! __________________ Vince

January 9, 2007	#2
Earl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 1,278	Aunt Gertie's Gold Yellow Brandywine

January 14, 2007	#6
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	My wife has been taking care of heat wave tomatoes in containers and I have a green tomato on one of them. She has been moving them in and out of the car port as the weather permits. May be they will last till spring and they will really take off. Who knows? At least she has kept them alive, that is a good start. Worth