Tomatoes

[dj in kc]

This year has been a total bust so far.  2/8 just died after a few golf ball size maters - did get one before the 4th.  I think those were Early Girls.  Two other plants  went on strike.  Four others are growing well but aren't producing jackshit.  
I was feeling bad that I have not started curing more bellies for bacon - seems that wasn't an issue....

Peppers and volunteer cherry tomatoes are kicking ass.  Go figure

[Mexas Joe]

You plant in ground, raised planters or pots?

Here in Texas, errything died by mid June.

Pops has 20 plants in the garden......dead despite watering.

I had plants in cut off 35 gal drums.........dead despite watering.

[bdutton]

We have so many despite canning a bunch we are unable to eat t all. Cherry and Beefsteak are producing very well. The Romas are lagging but thats good because we have too many of the others.

We even have 'wild' tomatoes (Cherry variety) growing out by the road and in a landscape bed which may be due to a chicken shitting seeds last year.

[Augie91]

We did early girl and better boy. It's been hot and dry here in Iowa. This year we've had a okay amount of those. Enough to make salsa a half dozen times. No BLTs yet. Our cherry toms flowers got ate by our monster rabbit who has destroyed many of our plants this year. We planted 8 Tom plants and 4 pepper plants. I have had to pick the toms when they start turning pink, if I wait till they go full on red peter rabbit chomps them. This year, despite the rabbits has been better than previous years. I've learned to over plant and I don't tend the plants like I should.

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Corn is full on hardcore in Iowa as usual. My toilet gets a workout when I drive up the road to a local farmer who charges $6 for a dozen plump ears of sugar.

[Buzzie mcnugget]

Not a great year, a 7 week 98f zero rain spell was unkind.
I have irrigation but without a rain it's not quite the same.
Wouldn't have anything without irrigation.

[dj in kc]

You plant in ground, raised planters or pots?

Here in Texas, errything died by mid June.

Pops has 20 plants in the garden......dead despite watering.

I had plants in cut off 35 gal drums.........dead despite watering.

In ground.  We had a lot of heat with no rain this year - not much in the way of flowers setting........... We still have maybe 8 weeks before the first frost.

[garyNconcord]

My garden has been a bust this year. Had 0.6" rain for the month of June. First batch of tomatoes I had, I planted in the spring. They were really small, but we were going out of town a week and they had to go in the ground. No rain for the week, lost almost all of them. Planted new seeds, replanted and got a stand. July we started getting rian, but I was tied up reworking gutter drains and building a fence for a pool the wife had to have. While I was tied up with that, weeds exploded in garden and I didn't have time to work it. We're getting by with enough tomatoes to eat, but forget canning. Been a disappointing year and I'm still working on the 400' of fence. Pool nowhere near that big, but needed to fence in back yard also.

[Augie91]

My toms are going okay. I get maybe 75% of them, 25% goes to rabbit tax. Made some killer BLTS yesterday.

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[dj in kc]

I'm finally getting some off the plants that survived. Almost more than I can use, almost. I'm glad I got that last batch of bacon knocked out.

The fox piss is out since the squirrels noticed..........