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Title: primitive shows off tomatoes
Post by: franksolich on July 02, 2008, 06:54:48 PM

Oh my.

Great photographs of tomatoes, lots and lots of them.

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Title: Re: primitive shows off tomatoes
Post by: BEG on July 02, 2008, 08:32:39 PM

I would be in heaven if those were mine. 

Title: Re: primitive shows off tomatoes
Post by: mamacags on July 02, 2008, 09:00:40 PM

Ours don't come in for at least another month here.  I have maybe 8 small ones and 1 medium size one on the vines.  29839239823498 blooms waiting though.  I have something like 70-100 quarts I have to make this year of sauce so I will have to buy bushels from farmers too.

Title: Re: primitive shows off tomatoes
Post by: RobJohnson on July 04, 2008, 08:47:03 PM

Wow, they look great so far.

Yummy.

Title: Re: primitive shows off tomatoes
Post by: JohnnyReb on July 31, 2008, 04:05:57 PM

I was raised on a farm and my mother worked 2 large gardens. She grow and perserved everything we ate (except flour, sugar, salt). So I do know better but here's how my lazy ass grows tomatoes.

Buy a half dozen tomato plants. Fine a spot in the yard where the grass grows best. Punch 6 holes in the ground, insert plants and water heavily. Then pile grass clippings deep around the plants to kill the grass that's there and forget'em until the tomatoes are ripe. :-)

I got one plant that has over 50 tomatoes on it right now. I do zoo-kini and squash the same way. If it gets a little dry, I water about once a week. The grass clippings help hold the moisture in the soil.