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tomato bonanza in our garden. All the plants have taken off like I've not seen before. We're going to have way too many tomatoes, looks like we'll have enough for our entire road.

I might enter some in the state fair, I've looked over the winners in the past and they seemed like nothing special. There seemed to be a million winners, part of Vermont's "let's not hurt anyone's feelings" vibe I guess.

[joe moving]

we have like 25 plants here.... lots of green tomatoes.. one of these days we are going to have more tomatoes than we can eat for sure.

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Originally Posted by joe moving

we have like 25 plants here.... lots of green tomatoes.. one of these days we are going to have more tomatoes than we can eat for sure.

We have twenty, we got a late start and up until last week had practically nothing. Our first tomato is just about ready.

[Bang!]

I gave up on growing Tomatoes in Mount Holly after three years in a row having frost set in before any of them ripened. Big disappointment to go through the effort of tilling, planting, watering, and weeding, just to have everything taken by frost.

[RunawayJim]

My tomato plants (6 of them in pots) are doing quite well. I have tons of green tomatoes... when will they turn red so I can eat them?

[arctichomesteader]

If everything holds out (no disease, pests, etc.), I should have my best crop of tomatoes of the past few years judging from how things look.

However, the low temps we got for a time after planting (you know, going from 80's/90's to some days and nights of 40's and I recorded a low of 39 one night with my thermometer, just isn't good for those plants...) killed off my melons. I've got one tiny watermelon plant and one cantaloupe plant, I'm not counting on those at all because they're so small right now, though there's a slight chance of getting something if I tent some plastic on them in Sept. and Oct.. A chipmunk dug up a couple of watermelon plants that had survived the wild temps while tunnelling for some reason or another. My armenian cucumbers didn't like those temps either but most held on...

But there's good and bad years for every crop. This year looks good for tomatoes, potatoes, onions, beans, the lettuce did good, pretty soon I'll be over run with squash...

[looking4home]

Tomatoes do best with temps with sustained overnight temps in the 50's. I live in a big tomato area (northern end of California's Central valley) But this year, we've had cooler than normal weather, especially at night, which, as I mentioned, is key to growing red, ripe tomatoes!

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Originally Posted by Bang!

I gave up on growing Tomatoes in Mount Holly after three years in a row having frost set in before any of them ripened. Big disappointment to go through the effort of tilling, planting, watering, and weeding, just to have everything taken by frost.

Then you really need to start earlier or select tomatoes that don't take so long to grow. There's no reason to not have small tomatoes by mid July, mediums by late July, and large in August.