How are everyones' tomatoes doing this year?

[AngryAmish]

We have been getting grape tomatoes for about 2-3 weeks and a steady crop now.

Our beefsteak? Growing but not there yet. 2 weeks, maybe?

(And why did Mrs. AA plant beefsteak - those are not my favorite?

[MountainLaurel]

1. Ours died in the heat

I think we got one roma before the drought did everyone in during our rainless month in June.

[femmocrat]

2. Just getting yellow grape tomatoes now. (PA)

Everything else is still green. I planted 18 plants, mostly heirlooms.

However.... we did get the early tomato blight which I have been battling aggressively for a couple of weeks. It doesn't look like it affected the fruit as far as I can tell. It was very bad this year!

[old mark]

3. SE PA - started ripening a week or so ago, medium size and grapers, but

plants are now ding off with maybe 8 more tomatoes on them.
Sweet peppers are going crazy, figs will ripen in about 10-15 days.

markO8)

[HopeHoops]

4. We got our first sandwich slicer about a week ago, several since.

The Sugary (red grape) and Sweet-100's are already at the "graze while you weed" point. The plants are all huge and full of fruit, except for the yellow pear. It has a lot of fruit, but the leaves all wilted so it is just stems with fruit now. It isn't the late blight and nothing else has been bothered by it. I'm confused.

On Edit: Harrisburg, PA area.

[Kali]

5. heirloom seeds never sprouted

but three volunteers came up where I had tomatoes last year. The plants last year were early girl (I think) and there was SUPPOSED to be romas. They were bought as PLANTS. Never got any roma fruits. The volunteers? seem to be romas! They are all still green. sigh - but the basil is all chewed up and going to flower/seed.

Why can't I have fresh tomatoes and basil at the same time?

[seemunkee]

6. Early girl only had 4 tomatoes

The green zebra has 3. Not a good year.

[Auggie]

13. We've had 4 EGs ripen so far too.

Many, many more are on the way.

[NJmaverick]

7. Not to good. Too much rain and not enough sun and warmth

here in NJ

[Ekirh]

8. My Dad's Tomoatoes . .

They refuse to ripe. They are all still green but they are getting fucking huge. I don't know when they are going to start turning.

[gbate]

9. They looked OK, but now they look like they have black rotten areas on the bottom.

I'm hoping the next few blooms produce something better, but I'm not holding my breath.

[madinmaryland]

11. I was listening to Kojo Nnamdi on WAMU-FM at lunch, and in the delmarva area,

there is a tomato blight this year in our area. Apparently the blight (which is a fungus) was brought us with plants that were started in the south. The fungus will be killed this winter, so it should not be an issue next year. Unfortunately there is not much you can do this year.

Sorry for the bad news.

[Arkansas Granny]

15. Do they look like this?

If so, here are some tips that might help you.

http://www.tastefulgarden.com/growing_tomatoes.htm

[maddezmom]

10. just notice we've got a few green ones coming on

Hopefully we'll have at least a few to eat. First time doing the upside down thingy in a basket. :D

[Richardo]

12. I hear the PA tomatoes are big and delicious...

...the weather has been great for tomatoes I understand. :9

[mitchum]

14. My dad's tomatoes are doing GREAT...

tons of grape tomatoes, romas, and Better Boys.
Apparently, I did not inherit that ability from him. The last time I tried, it took me all summer to grow one mealy tomato.

[Zomby Woof]

16. They are ready to take over and eat us

We have one German Queen and one Roma plant, and the GQ is HUGE. Tons of blossoms, but no fruit yet. The Roma is producing its first fruit, and has blossoms to spare. We're going to have a bumper harvest beginning in August.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. I've only got two plants, one "Better Bush" and one "Husky Cherry" which

I'm growing in pots. The plant look great and I've been getting tomatoes from both for about 2 weeks now, but the flavor is not what I was looking for. The cherry tomatoes have a sour whang to them and the bigger tomatoes just don't have much flavor at all.

I'm using a soilless mix in the pots and wonder if maybe they would taste better if they had been grown in regular garden soil.

[KamaAina]

20. "Better Bush"?!

You should have saved a few ripe ones to chuck at Obama's predecessor! :P

[guitar man]

18. cherry tomatoes are doing great

can't get the big ones to produce anything :(

[greenbriar]

19. got them~ have 8 ready to eat

bunches more ready to blush


only problem is we have a little bug issue


we have dusted with 7 but don't know what else to do

[yy4me]

21. All you folks with tomatoes, stop bragging. In New England, we

are trying to grow some before we have to pull them up. I just now have blossoms. Hope to have some in time for a few great salads. Even the basil is stunted.

This spring has been something weird. All I can brag about is the fact that my grass is green.

[JoDog]

28. Summer in N. Illinois

has been weird, too. I lost my Cosmonaut Volkov tomatoes and a lot of seedlings to the cold and wet late spring we had. The U-Pick strawberry place down the road came close to having no plants fruit at all. July has been mostly cool, with a week of heat in June.

[AngryAmish]

30. Brutal year for strawberries

Had them for about three weeks only at the farmer's market.

[lukasahero]

34. LOL! Thank you!

I have about 4 blossoms on my 12 plants so far, and I'm fighting some ugly "damn it's too wet" disease to boot! If I get any tomatoes at all, I'll probably be serving them for Thanksgiving dinner.

:rofl:

[Blue Diadem]

22. The plants in the ground have tomatoes getting bigger but not ripe yet. The

Topsy turvey thing had one ripe tomato that didn't form right and the bottom was 1/2 black. I think there is one small green tomato on that plant as well.

[carlyhippy]

23. they are still green, I guess, the mosquitoes are so bad I can't stay out long enough to see

AMAZING how bad the mosquitoes are! I even breathed up some up my nose, I have about 30 bites already and after spending less than a minute outside just now, I just got about 10 more! The worst one is the one on my eyelid, good grief!

[Kat45]

24. There are a lot of them, but nowhere near ready yet. n/t

[doc03]

25. They are not ripening here, this is about the coldest summer in

memory. It only made it to 61º Saturday its been in the 50's most nights. Global warming?

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. Here, 90 miles from the Gulf Coast, the heat has stopped production.

Except for Sweet 100, which are reliable every year here, producing well.

A trick I discovered is when the heat and early blight gets to the tomatoes before they produce,
I can cut the stems back to just a few nodes above the soll ( same with pepeprs) and the plants
regrow, without blight, usually in time for the heat to go down, then I get tomatoes well into late fall.
we have had tomatoes as late as early Dec.
I will be cutting the Sweet 100's down next week as they are growing way too tall and have produced heavily already. Every morning we have a handul of Vit. C. from the plants. Mmmmmm.

[Ilsa]

32. Yeah, same for me. I'm 20 miles, roughly, from the

western gulf coast. Horrible drought here.

I've also heard that trees in central texas are dying from the drought, and that we're expected to be a desert in 50 years.

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. I am re-learning Permaculture.

Saw an interesting documentary on how they used Permaculture in Israel or someplace near there.
A broiling hot sandbox produced growing figs and stuff.
Interesting idea.

[JoDog]

27. Have gotten 3 yellow plums

The heirlooms and Romas are putting on fruit.

BTW--I haven't had time and cash to cage/stake the Romas. Does anyone know if it is too late to do so? Since they are a short plant that produces small tomatoes, will they be OK without support?

[Roon]

29. we have tons of green tomatoes

nothing ripe except the cherry tomatoes.

[Ilsa]

31. We are in a drought. I watered my grape tomatoes every night.

That was the only way they'd produce anything or not dry up on the vine from day to day.

They stopped producing a couple of weeks ago, just in time for water restrictions going into effect.

I suspect Texas will be a desert in about 40 years.

[annonymous]

33. I got my 1st ripe cherry tomato the 1st week of July

I got my 1st Early Girl a few days later. The rainy May and June weather has not been good for my tomatoes and peppers. I got my first bell peppers and chili peppers last week. Tomatoes and peppers need hot sunny weather and that has been in short supply in Baltimore this summer.

[Nevilledog]

35. Crappy yield here.

First time I've ever tried to grow tomatoes. As of today our plum tomato plant owes us 1798 more tomatoes...seeing as how we've only gotten 2 outta the "promised" yield up to 1800...LOL

[wickerwoman]

37. First ripe cherry tomato today

millions and millions of green tomatoes and that plants themselves have exploded in size and are choking out everything else in the garden.

Roma tomatoes look a little stressed from the heat but millions of green ones again.

[noamnety]

38. lots of unripe heirlooms all from seeds

green stripes, black from tula, a rainbow of cherries, hillbilly potato leafs. Plants are about waist to chest high, I am waiting impatiently for them to start ripening.

(Mrs. AA planted beefsteak because she is not a good wife.)

[Evoman]

39. Up in Canada.......my tomato plants are huge (very tall and broad)

However, there are no tomatoes as of yet. Plenty of flowers. If we have a late winter, I'll have a record amount. However, this summer was horrible (even for Canada), and I didn't even plant the tomatoes until the end of May.