Garden 2024

[BCMtnHound]

Garden 2024

I trim off the leaves of the bottom 1/3, or to the first fruit, as the season goes. With the turn of the season, I trim the tops down the first leaf above a fruiting stem, remove any suckers not yet bearing fruit and branches still only in flower.
No idea if this helps with ripening, but it makes me feel like I know something about tomatoes. And I can see the fruit in the jungle that those tomato plants can become.

[The AD]

I have a metric fuckton of tomotos still on the vine here in the PNW, and they are nearly all green. Finally had a couple cherry tomatoes pop ripe and they were decent... i think the 2week long cool and heavy rain spell we had recently kind of watered down the flavor. Then again, these are a new tomato to me, so maybe they just arent that sweet? Really hoping that fall doesnt hit too soon and i can get a decent tomato harvest this year... i started these fuckers 3 weeks earlier than last year to try and ensure id have a summer harvest and the weather just didnt cooperate with a really late spring, and an early fall. ugh.

I feel like we'll really know climate change has taken hold when we can consistently grow tomatoes in the PNW.

[californiagrown]

I feel like we'll really know climate change has taken hold when we can consistently grow tomatoes in the PNW.

See my username. A decade in and i'm still learning up here lol.

[Boissal]

the problem is -

year one you have ten tomatillos
year two you have one hundred tomatillos
year three you only have tomatillos

This. They will come back, and take over. Same with ground cherries. Harvesting both is a PITA as the bulk of the fruits are hanging out on the ground under the vines. Knowing what to do with them is the next challenge unless you want to eat chile verde for a month straight...

[LongShortLong]

If the cold kills your tomato plants, keep all your tomatoes. IME, most will eventually ripen if you bring them inside. Same goes for broken branches, wind dropped green tomatoes, and so forth.

[Cisco Kid]

The only tomatoes we've had any success with here in a river valley with the PNW low angle sun are the Sun Gold and Sweet Million. Bumper crops. Sweet eaten right off the bush.

[riser4]

I love sun gold.

[babybear]

I agree, sun golds are my favorite tomato ever
We usually have to finish them inside with our cold nights/ short growing season but maybe with some more climate change we can get there :P

[tgapp]

man we got wrecked on our tomatoes this year. everything was so slow to start, and even our neighbor (whose garden has been featured in at least one home and garden magazine at this point - she's the real deal) is having an incredibly hard time getting things to ripen. we've had probably 5 tomatoes this year. so frustrating.

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[babybear]

we had a pretty decent year here because we had more nights over 50*F

We had a 33-34* night last week. Lost a couple annuals-nbd

[m2711c]

man we got wrecked on our tomatoes this year. everything was so slow to start, and even our neighbor (whose garden has been featured in at least one home and garden magazine at this point - she's the real deal) is having an incredibly hard time getting things to ripen. we've had probably 5 tomatoes this year. so frustrating.

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i'm sorry to hear that. it's usually feast or famine for us with the tomato harvest. but, for once, we had a perfect middle of the road season with the tomatoes. just enough beefsteak for our tasty fuckin' blt needs and plenty of the cherry types for our two person salad needs with out the usual overabundance going to waste.

never happened before, so a repeat performance next season is highly doubtful... but we gonna try anyways!



fact.

[Boissal]

The season's been weird in SLC as well. I'm usually drowning in tomatoes by now and have canned multiple batches but so far I've been able to keep up with the supply by eating it at breakfast. A couple plants died early (looks like a soil issue, possibly over fertilizing) and the others are slow. Lots of green fruit that is starting to come in. The peppers are blowing up after a slow start, I need to ferment some asap (have a brutally hot macedonian variety that smells very smoky, will be interesting), make some ajvar, and freeze some as well. The squashes are under control for once, it helps that I didn't plant a zucchini (even the chickens get tired of those). The beans are not doing too great, I can keep up with the 2 plants without issue. I'm getting seriously annoyed with the okra though, it usually gives a few pods so this year I planted 3 and they're insanely productive. Not the easiest thing to cook with. I have 2 eggplants that are about 5' tall with about 3 fruits between them. Not sure those will ever ripen. The cucumber is doing great and the cantaloupes are plentiful but not tasty this year. I think I'll go back to the trusted French varieties, a lot of the more exotic ones I've tried look cool but taste boring. The raspberries are in their 1st year and not established enough to fruit. Overall it's a bit of a bust...

[Thaleia]

Pepper grower's - what are you doing with your super hots? I usually make various hot sauce's but I still have plenty from last year in the freezer.

I make Trinidadian Chow (I used my cucumbers instead of mango) and jerk sauce sometimes but I'll still have loads left over, looking for some new ideas.

[Buzzworthy]

Now that it is a bit cooler my tomatoes are finally coming in. Lost a my beefsteak plant to the heat, so sad.

[skaredshtles]

Now that it is a bit cooler my tomatoes are finally coming in. Lost a my beefsteak plant to the heat, so sad.

Yep - I'm buried in tomatoes presently... better late than never, though, I suppose.