Ours died too and we pulled them today. This is what was hiding under the leafs.
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If anyone needs some greenies let me know.
Ours died too and we pulled them today. This is what was hiding under the leafs.
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If anyone needs some greenies let me know.
I'm not good enough at this yet to have a favorite ... But I wanna know what kind RickN planted ...
WOW!!Do you want me to pickle some of them for you? Just holler if you do ...
I'm not good enough at this yet to have a favorite ... But I wanna know what kind RickN planted ...
Do you want me to pickle some of them for you? Just holler if you do ...
No clue what type they were, just something the wife picked up on a spur of the moment idea.
I think all together we picked around 300 off the two plants all together and I think I know how to make the plants do it again next year. I am going to take one plant and plant it a little away from the others and for the first month or two not let it produce any fruit. Pinching off the buds should let it keep putting it's energy into growing the plant. Once it spreads good and gets major roots, then I will let it start producing.
The green tomatoes are already gone. Family and friends snapped them up. Of course then I found a recipe for green tomato salsa.
Just my luck ... Oh well ... I'll hang onto that recipe because the picture with it looks really good. Description says they are "tartly sweet and crisp" ... Hmmmm ... Green tomato salsa, huh?? That sounds good, too ...I may not have any tomatoes actually get ripe next year!
I planted a tomato plant... It grew to about 5 inches tall & put it outside. It stayed alive, but stopped growing. Now it is a shriveled, sad little excuse for a tomato plant that is completely dead. Of course, I may have neglected my little garden this year once our baby was born in June... Yeah. I'll just use that as an excuse... As for all the other years of failed gardening... I have no excuse for them!
I grow heirloom tomatoes - Cherokee Purples, Grandma Suzie's are my two favorites. Brandywine is a great one, also, Sioux is probably the best suited to hot, dry Oklahoma summers. It was developed at OSU in the 50s so I heard. Not as good eatin' as the other three I mentioned. Google The Tomato Man, thre's lots of info there.
I have some friends who after seeing my new 2 1/2 acre back yard said they love to garden and if it belonged to them they would have all kinds of crops, so I told them to come grow what they want and just let me skim off the side. They took one look at the rich black soil and said they would do it.
I may be a share cropper next year and they can share my peaches, apples, pears and Pecans to boot.
I may be a share cropper next year and they can share my peaches, apples, pears and Pecans to boot.
Thanks for the recommendations. I think I'll try the Sioux next year. I didn't have such good luck with Cherokee Purples -- never have, for some reason. Brandywines usually do good for me though ...
Ohhhh ... that sounds like the PERFECT set-up ... You are a lucky, lucky fella ... I want your "yard" ... LOL
You need to pickle those green ones with jalepeno's for some heat. They are awesome!
Im going to try the Sioux next time, I'll just order some off the interwebs. I looked at the package of my failed they were called "big red"- none got big on my vines
