Go tomatoes go
I am a bit jealous seeing pictures across the country/world of everyone’s baskets of tomatoes, but I am getting close to my first few tomatoes on their modest vines starting to turn red…I see some salsa in my near future.
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Picking orange tomatoes
My youngest daughter has been very excited waiting to pick our tomatoes. She picked a green one a couple weeks back which I informed her that she needs to wait until they turn red, guess I needed to be more clear about “dark” red, since yesterday when we went out to our garden the first thing I heard was “I picked a matoe” which she is proudly displaying below.
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August in the PNW Garden: Harvest Hard, Plant Fall
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First tomato of the season
Well it is official I have my first official red tomato of the season this morning while watering. It was from a hanging basket my dad gave to me for Father’s day called "Tom’s Tumbler" which should cascade over providing lots of cherry tomatoes. I also noticed some of my "Early Girls" were also starting to produce so fresh garden salsa should be coming soon.
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width=”518″ height=”346″ /> With temperatures starting to drop and heavy rains on the way it has come time to start pulling some tomatoes to ripen indoors. Tomatoes need ethylene to ripen, this occurs naturally by the tomatoes plants releasing this during the later stages of growth thus causing the tomatoes to change color. You can do this indoors with the by simply taking your tomatoes that are just beginning…
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First tomato appeared in the grow box
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Something is coming out of my compost bin!! – Update
The volunteer tomato plant that has been growing out of my compost bin definitely looks healthy but given its rapid foliage growth and no fruit I guess I don’t need to do any soil tests to confirm my compost is high in nitrogen. Note to self, don’t grow tomatoes in pure compost.
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Fingers crossed! We had luck with the cherry and wild tomatoes (same size) and now even one bush tomato with ordinary sized fruits. Mind you, that is after a few years of trying our best.
There’s nothing like those days and weeks, waiting for fruits to ripen to where we want them to reach.
Your tomatoes are ahead of mine. I am afraid I may be ripening most of my green tomatoes in the house in a brown paper bag this year. But I am holding on to hope still. It just did not get warm early enough this year.