Nice, 066.View attachment 438082 View attachment 438083 View attachment 438085 We grow mostly Brandywine heirloom tomatoes. We get 3.50 a pound for them. Sold 250 pounds last week at the farmers market. We put a shade cloth on the hoop house. Keeps the temps down. Really makes a big difference in the quality of the tomatoes. In fact we are going to buy another one next year to block some of the morning sun. The plants and tomatoes are bigger under the shade cloth..
Nice awol. Makes me wanna 'mater sandwich with mayo and a good shot of pepper.We grow a few heirlooms, Mortgage Lifter, and Amana Orange mostly. The fruits weigh about one pound each, and we sell them at our store and local farmers markets for two dollars a pound.
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Little late but tomato trellis trick concrete wire with the big holes bend it into a round and wire that together drive wooden stakes around that and I've never had my tomato plants go down it comes 5 ft high just cut it with a torch or grinder you have to fight them but they last indefinate
Over the past few years I've switched over to Russian and Ukrainian cultivars since they taste better and are generally far more resilient and higher yield than locally available ones.
I am presently waiting for a batch of seeds of some little known cultivars such as Kosmonaut Volkov to arrive so I can have the plants ready for transplant in late April/early May. They should be here any day (hopefully). You never know with shipping from Eastern Europe.
In the past I've tried raising Brandywines but met with little success. I've also planted Lebanese tomatoes (Omar) for a couple here but, plainly put, the weather here is not hot enough for them and they don't grow big enough. I ended up giving the seeds I had saved to a friend who moved to Uruguay.
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