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I am so excited...I had to share my tomatoes with y'all! Hubby finally cut the stakes this weekend and now they can grow to their hearts content!
I had to plant in front of the porch...only place I could talk hubby into putting them. Does make it easy to water, tho!
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Tonya...they look GREAT!! So healthy! I understand your excitment!! I must check my tomatoes 10 times a day...I don't have fruit yet but they're all flowering. Keep the pictures coming as they progress!
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I tried to start some Jalepenos from seed, but nothing happened...I will try some bell peppers next time. Some of my tomatoes are about 2" I will post more pics later...
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They look GREAT!!! Talk hubby into a bit more room next year, you''ve got a great tomato thumb there Tonya!!
Do you do anything with *recipe wise* the green tomatoes?? We've got a recipe section with some green tomato recipes, see if you can find the thread and add yours if you'd like..
* * * * Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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I now have an area cleaned up for next year...I want to add pole beans, cucumber, peppers, cantaloupe and potatoes...I could keep going, but... Thanks!
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You've got some lovely tomatoes there and the little one is a cutie-pie--looks like he's admiring your tomatoes too! And I'm glad to see I'm not the only person going out to check their plants 10 times a day!!
sarah
* * * * Sarah - Zone 5b/6 Plants: 662 | From: Ks, USA | Registered: May 2006
| Seeded: 70.250.255.50
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Thanks Sarah! That would be Mackenna and she LOVES to help mommy garden. So does Big Sis Summer...We all check the tomatoes a ton! If Mack gets fussy- we go look at them, among the other plants we have around.
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My daughters like to help me in the garden too. In fact, they got to be so "helpful" that I had to get them their own little bed and some sunflower seeds. That way they can dig/throw dirt wherever they please! Once my youngest realized that you can pick off tomatoes, it's been a HUGE chore keeping that kid out of there. She doesn't discriminate--if its hard, green, and small it gets picked too!! Then she starts eating it saying "yum, yum, s'mato"
Sarah
* * * * Sarah - Zone 5b/6 Plants: 662 | From: Ks, USA | Registered: May 2006
| Seeded: 70.250.255.50
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AWWW! too cute! Summer has some sunflowers and a few weeds she has "rescued" and put in pots. But, I'm getting my diva to play in the dirt with me...
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I wish my maters were that big. I got all mine for free but they were only 4-5 inches tall when I planted them, and that was just a couple days ago.
* * * * people tell me I have the body of a god... too bad its buddah. Plants: 561 | From: Seattle, WA | Registered: Feb 2006
| Seeded: 24.224.11.188
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I hope mine DO get that tall, but I will definitely have to break out some much longer stakes. We almost bought Better Boy- are they good and flavorful?
Those look very nice and healthy! Keep up the good work.
And I learned this year about trying to grow peppers from seed . I found out it is easy to us the milk jug until they get a big enough to put outside. I wish I would have known this before hand .
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We usually grow Romas, but this year I wanted some real tomatoes for sandwiches, not just cooking. I love a 1/4 inch or thicker slice of tomato on some whitebread with mayo, salt & pepper...my mouth is watering already!!
quote:Originally posted by Tonya: We usually grow Romas, but this year I wanted some real tomatoes for sandwiches, not just cooking. I love a 1/4 inch or thicker slice of tomato on some whitebread with mayo, salt & pepper...my mouth is watering already!!
Aww c'mon! What about the crispy bacon!? I can't wait for my first ever BLT with a real heirloom tomato slice on it!!
* * * * John - Zone 6 Plants: 1068 | From: Connecticut | Registered: Aug 2005
| Seeded: 209.178.236.58
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White bread? You mean that spongy stuff that squishes together in a ball if you take the crust off? LOL, Italians call people who eat that kind of wimpy bread 'mangiacakes' because to us, it looks like you're eating cake, not bread. Bread-making is almost as therapeutic as gardening, I think.
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Tonya, me too ! Heartier breads seem to overwhelm the P, B and J and worse, the tomato sandwich ! I tuck some basil leaves into my tomato sandwich-add a Coke-bliss !!!
* * * * Plants: 1772 | From: Southern California, USA | Registered: Feb 2006
| Seeded: 207.200.116.139
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Nothing wrong with eating good bread with a BLT, but I must agree that coarse, whole grain breads are NOT what you want. I don't want anything to interfere with the taste of my 'maters and bacon! In fact, I'm not sure if I need the L part! Just B, T and Hellmans!
* * * * Dave Even my growlights are getting restless! Plants: 2290 | From: norman, ok | Registered: Apr 2005
| Seeded: 69.30.170.166
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For me it's just BT and Mayo alot of the time. Hope in two weeks I'll get to start eating them. The cooler weather here is bound to help. Peppereater are you getting the cooler weather? We finally got some rain also and the garden has sure perked up. JD
Plants: 91 | From: Kansas | Registered: Mar 2006
| Seeded: 69.149.232.247
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Hey JD! Yep, it's a little cooler. Many of my plants have yet to set fruit, but some have just exploded! Looks like I'll have a good crop (fingers crossed.) We've had a couple good rains, too, and yes the garden has perked up...but so have the weeds! BTW, Bloody Butcher seems to be my best yet for the heat, it's loaded with fruit, and German Red Strawberry is nearly as prolific. I'll post pics of GRS in a new topic.
* * * * Dave Even my growlights are getting restless! Plants: 2290 | From: norman, ok | Registered: Apr 2005
| Seeded: 69.30.170.166
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I gotta weigh in here on the breads... I used to only eat white bread.. But somewhere's along the path I switched to a wheat bread, it's strohman's... not the hunky and chunky kinds, those are a bit tooo textured for me... *although, they are THE healthiest*
and I love BLT's, only seperate...lol!! I don't eat sandwiches like that... I'm wierd in the food catagory..
I loveeeee Fresh Italian bread... nothing better, but have you seen the carbs' *where's the gremalin spinning it's head around in a circle*?
And my most allllllllltime favoritest sam~ich in the whole wide world is...... Tomato, Lettuce and Cucumber w/Mayo.... ooooooooooh, I could eat those everyday of the summer..Yummmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
* * * * Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
Got my first Red Tomato last night, been picking green ones for about 2 weeks.
* * * * One OS to rule them, one OS to find them: One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. Plants: 1077 | From: Haskell Oklahoma Zone 6b | Registered: Feb 2005
| Seeded: 69.30.152.15
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problems with making your own bread is its so yummy when it comes out of the oven there's none left by tea-time Plants: 7 | From: Sheffield, UK | Registered: Jun 2006
| Seeded: 82.38.186.147
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Peppereater, yep, same here, but I add a few alfalfa sprouts. Deee-licious ! Internet Owl, me too ! I bake a basic white loaf, slather on the butter...... Oh, yum !
* * * * Plants: 1772 | From: Southern California, USA | Registered: Feb 2006
| Seeded: 207.200.116.139
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I hate to say this but I ate my first ripe tomato yesterday, sliced it with bit of salt and pepper.
I'm not going to tell you how good it was.
* * * * One OS to rule them, one OS to find them: One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. Plants: 1077 | From: Haskell Oklahoma Zone 6b | Registered: Feb 2005
| Seeded: 69.30.152.15
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Sheesh, how could I forget? It was Marina's radish sandwich. Hope you're feeling better by now and that the new plants are doing well. I forgot my radish seeds and planted on top of them. Argh ! I'll wait until fall to try again. I am determined to grow normal radishes !
* * * * Plants: 1772 | From: Southern California, USA | Registered: Feb 2006
| Seeded: 207.200.116.139
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Oh yes, have to have the avocado. My BLT's have evolved into BAT's...Bacon Avocado and of course Tomato. Damn, after reading this thread, I'm having BAT's this week.
If only my Maters were producing. Ah well, soon I hope...got lots of flowers, and growing well.
Plants: 20 | From: Grand Junction, Colorado | Registered: Jun 2006
| Seeded: 72.174.27.26
The bread we make isn't overly coarse..it's not whole wheat but it does have a denser texture, so when you have a lusciously ripe bursting with juice tomato slice from a 2 lb Brandywine Sudduth overlapping your sandwich, it's a sturdy bread that can sop up the juice and not fall apart or turn to soggy mush. Duane, my boyfriend, makes a sundried tomato-basil Ciabatta that works wonderfully well for our BLTA's and also open-faced Bruschetta sandwiches. I make a peasant loaf with zucchini..a no big deal yeast bread that tastes superb with tomatoes. We make a lot, freeze it well after slicing and it's ready to go at a moment's notice. If people are keen, I'll post recipes.
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