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Re: This Morning’s Pickings
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Dang ours are still green as can be here they ripened late last year too.
Last edited by Law Dog; Yesterday at 02:51 PM.
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Re: This Morning’s Pickings
[Re: Lugnut]
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I planted these in mid May as seedlings and started harvesting red ones about the third week of July. So 60–70 days from seedling to ripe fruit.
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Re: This Morning’s Pickings
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These take a while too. I just have better luck with these than full-size tomatoes. The cherry tomatoes seem much hardier and more resistant to the typical tomato diseases. they taste good too.
I do love to grow heirloom Brandywines, IMO the best tasting tomato there is. But they are susceptible to blight, blossom end rot, etc.
The cherry tomatoes are pretty much plant and forget until harvest time.
We used to grow spoon tomatoes, they are about the size of a pea. Seemed like it would take a half a day to fill a pail with them.
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Re: This Morning’s Pickings
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Yesterday at 04:18 PM
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I get volunteers in the compost pile and places around the property that don't get mowed all the time.
Giant Super Markets and Sam's Club sells a variety of cherry tomatoes called Flavor Bombs. They're one of the best tasting tomatoes I've had. I wanted to grow them this year but no seedlings were available locally. I'm going to try to start some from seed next year, either seeds I buy or seeds I save from the store-bought tomatoes.
We were told the Sweet 100's were a close second in flavor to the Flavor Bombs. They're good but the Flavor Bombs are better.
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