My growing tomato army

[KLorentz]

Thanks to the generosity of a fellow gardener my tomato seed stock has grown by 11 varieties. Several are Brandywines including Sudduth's Strain and Cowlick.I now have about 20 different tomatoes to grow and enjoy. Some others are Omar's Lebanese ,Ananas Noir ,Pink Brandywine, Watermelon Beefsteak,Crimson Cushion, 2 that seem to be family heirlooms bred off Brandywine. On a side note my selection of peppers(hot mainly) is getting big too. What a fun year this will be. Never thought I would have such a great selection.


Kevin

[newatthiskat]

I have found that tomato buddies can be very generous. I have also found my eyes are much bigger than my garden
Kat

[KLorentz]

Me too.But as they say where there is a will there is a way.


Kevin

[Polar_Lace]

Kevin,

Will; will never get his way.
Even Strong Will won't get in the way!

But if I ever find a 12 inch by 12 inch patch of forgotten soil; I will be patching it up with a Tomato plant! That's for sure!

Yes, I'm a little tomato crazy; but who isn't?

I love all the people here at Tomatoville who have kindly sent me tomato seeds to get my tomato addiction back in style!

~* Robin

[Wi-sunflower]

I have also found my eyes are much bigger than my garden

I also went a bit nutz with the trades this winter when I first found Tomatoville. I ended up with over 100 new to me varieties.

My problem is I have a lot more area I COULD make garden than i will have energy to keep cared for later in the season. We have a 100 acre farm with 80+ acres tillable. Plus the neighbor lets us use another 20 acres.

Most years we end up with somewhere in the 25-40 acres of vegies range. Last year we had about 7 acres of tomatoes, in 3 areas. This year the area we plan to put the tomatoes (if the weather co-operates) is at least 10 acres. I kind of hope we don't fill it but who knows.

If we can keep the tomatoes all in the 1 area we want for this year, we are thinking of having an "heirloom tomato tasting and evaluating" Sunday afternoon probably late in Aug. That's inspired by all the great sounding "fests" I've read about here at TV. I have a couple of friends and neighbors that I've kept in vegies for years that like the idea and will help out.

Even if I can't work that out, I hope to have a whole lot of great varieties to share seeds next winter.

Yup tomatoes and hot peppers (I used to grow nearly 200 varieties of them too) are addictive, no doubt. And when you have a farm, the habbit can be hard to contain.

Carol

[KLorentz]

True Carol but at least it is healthy.A few veggies never hurt anyone


Kevin

[KLorentz]

San Marzano are sprouting!


Kevin

[KLorentz]

Thessaloniki, Amish Paste,Purple Cherokee are now up.Along with Cosmonaut Volkov.


Kevin

[KLorentz]

Al-Kuffa have started coming up. My maters so far are doing great.

Kevin

[KLorentz]

Italian Giant Beefsteak are up and growing. Just a few more to go


Kevin

[KLorentz]

Got 118 tomatoes potted up and more to come.Gonna be lots of peppers to.


Kevin

[KLorentz]

Tomato update! Just potted up some Italian Giant Beefsteak today. That puts my first wave of seedlings at 138. All my seedlings are looking good and should be ready to go to the garden about the first week of May or shortly after.


Kevin

[KLorentz]

All tomatoes except primetime and Brandywine Sudath Strain are up.


Kevin

[newatthiskat]

That is great! How many are you going to be able to plant out? I had fun getting creative in ways to rid myself of tomato plants that I did not have room for.
Kat

[KLorentz]

Hi Kat. I should have room for everything. Since my pots and Potting soil ran low and then out Several of my tomatoes ended up in peat pots. still gonna have lots of plants though.


Kevin