Ok, now my tomatoes have been planted for about 10 weeks, and I am harvesting them like crazy! (at least the cherry tomatoes). The Champion tomatoes, which are growing just like Cluster tomatoes that you buy in the grocery store, are just starting to turn red, so I will probably have some by this weekend.
Anyway, the reason I am so excited, as I stated in my first post, is that this is the first time in 20 years that I have had such good luck with vegies, mainly because I live in the desert, where it is getting hotter and dryer and windier every year, and I don't care how much shadecloth you put up, things still never seem to grow well, at least for ME
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Aside from the fact that we've had almost constant 20 - 40 MPH winds for the past month, my plants have held up pretty well! Here are a couple of picture I took about a week ago, and since then they have just exploded with ripe cherry tomatoes.
Here are the Champions...hard to tell the size, but as I said, they are like the Cluster Tomatoes you see in the grocery stores, and in this picture, about that size:
Next are the cherry tomatoes. Too bad a don't have a picture today, because it's more red than green! However, I don't have 3 hours to wait for photobucket to do it's thing in order to add another picture to it, so this is what you're getting:
DH has said for years that he doesn't like tomatoes, and now that he has tasted actual homegrown tomatoes, he's a convert!!! (and they say you can't teach old dogs new tricks
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Anyway, the reason I am so excited, as I stated in my first post, is that this is the first time in 20 years that I have had such good luck with vegies, mainly because I live in the desert, where it is getting hotter and dryer and windier every year, and I don't care how much shadecloth you put up, things still never seem to grow well, at least for ME
Aside from the fact that we've had almost constant 20 - 40 MPH winds for the past month, my plants have held up pretty well! Here are a couple of picture I took about a week ago, and since then they have just exploded with ripe cherry tomatoes.
Here are the Champions...hard to tell the size, but as I said, they are like the Cluster Tomatoes you see in the grocery stores, and in this picture, about that size:
Next are the cherry tomatoes. Too bad a don't have a picture today, because it's more red than green! However, I don't have 3 hours to wait for photobucket to do it's thing in order to add another picture to it, so this is what you're getting:
DH has said for years that he doesn't like tomatoes, and now that he has tasted actual homegrown tomatoes, he's a convert!!! (and they say you can't teach old dogs new tricks
