thewanderer718
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got up today and saw a bloom on my first tomato plant !!!! i did it WOW.
Post your tomatoes
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Jimbo01
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She hit the scales today. Came in a little shy of what I was shooting for. I'd still say it was a great first year of growing these. Now back to the giant pumpkins. I know its not a tomato, but would anyone like to see pictures of the pumpkin once it hits the scales at the end of the month?
Dave's Not Here
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I'd love to see the giant pumpkin, that tomato is awesome, what variety you got going there? I had some that kind of looked similar to that this year but not as big, I think they were the Belgium giants, I might have had a couple big fused ones that weighed around 2.5 lbs but 4.5 is off the charts lol.
Jimbo01
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It is a Big Zac. The worlds record tomato is just shy of 8.5 lbs. The nice thing about growing these things, it doesn't cost a bundle to grow them and you can leave town for a couple of days and the plant can take care of itself. Pumpkins are a blast too, but require so much time. When I get these seeds dry, you're more then welcome to some if you would like to give it a go. I'll show pumpkin pictures at the end of the month.
Dave's Not Here
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I tried some pumpkins for the first time this year, just some of those little mini pumpkins, they did great at first but the squash bugs eventually came after them, I have about 15 little pumpkins out in the garage though. I grew some of the "sugar baby" personal sized watermelons this year, first time I ever tried watermelon. They were small and I didn't get very many of them but they're really good, I'm going to try some regular sized ones next year.
keysareme
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Biodynamic Organic Tomatoes - (home brewed organic soil, organic biodynamic compost, worm castings, a little kelp and humic acids and a healthy layer of trace minerals. Water and compost teas.) From a raised bed on the back porch.
Patch in the back. In ground planting, no soil amending, it's a native clay that's been worked organically by ground cover, pulled it up and a nice broken down top layer was to be found. These get water and compost teas as well.
Furthur on, is another patch, 20 or so more in the ground. Behind you in the photo is another patch with 15 or so. These were all planted in ground with home brewed compost from a hot compost pile.
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thewanderer718
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Wow i still cant believe i grew these from seed's it has inspired me to start my own little organic garden, on my way to the seed store now to buy a few new seed's.
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racerboy71
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Still getting a few things out of the garden. Overall a pretty productive year
thewanderer718
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Am i doing something wrong or just impatient ? my tomato plants look health and are growing well but just not producing any tomato's yet.
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TripleMindedGee5150
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This is what my garden looks like as of late. Once my MJ plants didn't produce what I cared for I lost all interest. Messed up. But I fed the garden just the other day. Poor plants
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Jimbo01
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Here is my competition pumpkin for the year. The event winner had a weight of 1921 lbs.. The pumpkins are fun to grow but take a lot of time and the larger they get, the more they cost and harder they are to load and transport.
As it stands, my 4.30 tomato was the largest grown in the state this year. I entered one last tomato today and it weighed 2.18 lb. I'm already looking forward to next year.
Cl@rksville
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I left these few on because they were tiny and I already had hundreds of toms this season. Just went round back of shed to throw some leaves on compost heap and the tiny toms have grown to treble their size and look bloody lovely! They have no leaves except whats on the fruit top and the stem is cut off 5 inches above. Whats even more surprising is that they are in a Coco/Pebbles Auto Pot and have had nothing more than natural rainfall water for 2 weeks... Oh the wonders of neglect!
Unfortunately I need the valve and base so it will be stuffed in a bucket until I need the pot again, it will be interesting to see how it fairs by itself as the temperature in the north of the UK is now officially shite!