Tomatoes!!!

[marlingardener]

Last year, due to ghastly weather, we had no tomatoes. This year, we have lovely Celebrities and a "cherry tomato" that looks suspiciously like a Porter. I'm happily making Marinara sauce, serving tomato salads, and enjoying what I didn't get last year!

 

[DirtMechanic]

I think we will gnosh our first tomatoes on the 4th. Celebrity, and I have been looking for that first bite since last winter!

 

[alp]

This year has been disastrous for me! Glad that you've such a nice harvest - toms amongst all others! I have so far not even one Tom, no courgette. The only things I have harvested are beetroots, quite a few radishes (strangely, I have grown to love them), and a few sugar snaps. Well, at least, my hens get to enjoy salad leaves from beetroots and spinach.

I am so scared of the lungworm disease that I wash my salad leaves again and again, starting with salty water. Everything is so slow this year. My cucumber seedlings have had 2 leaves .. I prefer to stick to flowers.

 

[DirtMechanic]

This year has been disastrous for me! Glad that you've such a nice harvest - toms amongst all others! I have so far not even one Tom, no courgette. The only things I have harvested are beetroots, quite a few radishes (strangely, I have grown to love them), and a few sugar snaps. Well, at least, my hens get to enjoy salad leaves from beetroots and spinach.

I am so scared of the lungworm disease that I wash my salad leaves again and again, starting with salty water. Everything is so slow this year. My cucumber seedlings have had 2 leaves .. I prefer to stick to flowers.

It is slow here as well, and this summer will reset our understanding of a cool wet spring and the effect of it all upon gardening and veggies. We too had a bumper crop of radishes and cooler weather veggies. Although I have started groaning about mixed salads as I get older, I like all the plants served individually.

 

[Chuck]

I had a great garden this year. Started picking tomatoes the last week in May and still have a few big green ones left. I haven't added up the daily weights yet but it looks to be a little above average on tomatoes. I'm having a bumper crop of all kinds of peppers, way above average. I pickled 32 quarts of dill and sour pickles. That is enough to last me at least 2 years so I pulled up the plants. I'm going to pull up the squash too. I can only eat and give away so much. Canteloupes are just now ripening and watermelons are still in growth stage but look to be excellent. I had a long, wet, cool spring and thought everything would be affected but nothing has been so far except for early blight on some of the tomatoes but they are just about gone anyway. Planted okra about 3 weeks ago and it is nearly 2 feet tall now. Green beans are producing well so far. I wish every year was like this one.

 

[skinyea]

What a difference between Texas and Maryland. had 1st tomato last week. about 3 weeks away from a big harvest. Have 145 varies tomato plants going. most in garden and alot in pots.
picked 1st bush beans yesterday. have them staged for multiple months worth of picking. pole beans are a few weeks away.

canteloupes are about a month away

 

[Tetters]

Last year I grew a greenhouse full of tomatoes (mostly) and Zigs grew a load more outside - about150 of them altogether, as well as all the other veggies. I was making blooming sauces of every sort - a job that went on and on ..... and on! What with all that, and stringing up hundreds of ruddy onions, AND making hay, by hand, in the heat, I felt like I was a landgirl back in 1940! All it needed was a few doodlebug thingies and a suitable headscarf.

This year we have cut down - I left ALL veggie growing to Lord Awful - he does it better than me anyway (my story, sticking to it)
This year I've dug out three very big flower beds, and have concentrated on flowers and shrubs. Still plenty to do, without the sauce making