How are your tomatoes doing?

[turd]

I'm about ready to give up. We have had so much rain this summer they aren't doing well. Almost September and I haven't gotten a ripe one yet. I've been growing tomatoes for around 40 years, but these last few years have been tough. Last year I tried growing them in pots and that worked OK but not great. The year before it was so hot and dry they pretty much burned up. Four years ago we had a bumper crop and ended up making tomato sauce and freezing it to use in soups and casseroles. I'm glad we don't have to depend on a garden.

My spot isn't the best place, close to the house on the south, so gets pretty hot.

 

[WAYNO]

My tomatoes never really succeed until late summer and early fall. Then when the rains start they all split open. Right now I am getting less than a half dozen cherry tomatoes a day , none fully ripe or sweet.

 

[gunman42782]

Ours didn't do great, but we had a decent amount.

 

[s4s4u]

Dad had some nice tom's going, until quarter sized hail stripped nearly every plant in the garden.

 

[krw]

We had 24 plants. Celebrity' and Early Girls did best. Had 4 Sun Gold's that did good also. Hav outs in Raised beds and water them good. When temps hit high 90's all but Sun Gold's started shutting down. Bout tired of BT sandwich's and CB's by then anyways

 

[BULL'S-EYE]

I'm giving them away. We have WAY more than we're able to eat before they spoil. And, don't usually can any other than maybe a half dozen jars or so for sauce.
I just planted Husky Cherry Red, Rutgers, Roma and San Marzano this Spring.
My primary focus, as usual is Chili peppers.

 

[bedfordboy]

Mine are still alive but that's about all I can say. They did great early on and I got plenty to make salsa (16 pints) and tomato juice (12 QTs), couple quarts of tomato sauce and couple pints of ketchup, and froze a couple gallon size ziplocks full… not too mention the tons that I gave away. Then the heat took its toll on them. Right now I'm just getting about a dozen golf ball sized and about a quart of cherry's a week.

 

[mirglip]

My maters are doing OK. We didn't have any significant rain the entire growing season. It has been highs in the 80's most of the summer, which is good for them. Usually mine are going gangbusters just as the first frost comes.

 

[nekvermont]

Ours have done well. Early girls. Been eating a couple a day and giving away a few.
Cherry tomato plant is loaded.

 

[T.A. WORKMAN]

Ours are doing well, early girls, beefsteak & cherry tomato's.

 

[jimbo1096]

I usually plant the early girls and the beef steaks, which are my favorite and then a handful of heirloom. Didn’t get to do much last couple years because of health issues. I can’t get my grandkids over here long enough to have them dig up the plot so I went with a handful of tomato plants and large plastic tubs, but nothing has done well. By the time I go to get one the birds have pecked a hole in them

 

[41Dude]

I went to check but they got stuck in my Speedo.
Oh wait, you were asking about tomatoes.
Nevermind.

 

[41Dude]

I knew turd would laugh. He is a sick puppy (like me)

 

[turd]

I usually put mine in a grocery bag when I harvest, not my speedo.

 

[blume357]

mine did pretty good until about two weeks ago and it rained too much now they are all splitting open before totally ripe and so I'm picking what I have left before they split. Cucumbers did good until the heat was too much.

 

[GasGuzzler]

I planted two large cherry, one celebrity, one, early girl (boy?), and two romas. Cherry plants made about four gallons and are now deceased. Celebrity made a dozen decent tomatoes. Early whatever did nothing. Romas made a combined five dozen but they ranged in size from tennis ball to grape.

Here in Texas, tomato plants stop bearing in August usually because of the heat. I run a soaker hose every other day but the spring was so wet they had trouble when it finally got hot. Only one Roma remains alive and I just cut off all the dead stuff and mixed a special concoction to spray it with to see if I can get it to survive two more weeks when it can bear again. It has flowers. The other one in the pic is nearly dead and has no viable leaves so I do not expect it to make it.

Jalapenos are still making although they slowed down a lot in the heat. I have canned 14 pints of pickled peppers since May off these scrawny plants.

 

[Track14]

this is the first year that the tomatoes did not do well and the first year that our Japanese pears produced twice as many pears but they are like midget pears! Weird year.

 

[Sam Summey]

Tomatoes I have bought in WNC this year have been terribly bitter. My neighbor across the street has given me several, some are bitter some are normal. Way too much rain.

 

[gnappi]

This year I tried Heirloom tomatoes in pots, so far not good.

Exotic fruit trees are easier, I'll stick with them and buy Heirlooms

 

[jav]

Mine went good at first then Peter out

 

[ole442]

I've always produced lots of tomatoes until 3 years ago. They just do not produce like they used to/ I think some climate entity is effing with the sun or the atmosphere. I always had plenty to freeze but no more. I've tried a lot of varieties and cures but for 14 plants I get almost nothing worth eating! I'm getting rid of my garden. Cheaper to just by from roadside stands and farmer's markets IMO!

 

[Pore2013]

I totally feel your pain The weather can be such a drag sometimes. You've had some good years, though, which is awesome. Maybe mixing in some shade next time could help? Keep hanging in there

 

[rcs9250]

Last year I planted six tomato plants I purchased at the local greenhouse store. I did not use tomato stakes or those inverted cone gizmo’s to get them growing vertical, big mistake. They were the cherry tomatoes that grew 8 or 10 of them side by side in a neat parallel row. Excellent tasting.

This year spring was such an up/down temperature mess I didn’t bother planting and just let the 4’x8’ raised bed go to weed. About two or three weeks ago I see little tomatoes starting to turn red. Needless to say they were from tomatoes that fell on soil from last year. I think I’ve heard second growth isn’t as good as the engineered first growth. I have poor non discriminating taste buds so they taste same as last year. I’m picking about 10-20 every day.

 

[thinckley]

We're getting at least this much every 2-3 days from 3 plants

My wife has already canned a couple gallons of Tomato Basil Soup, and of course we are eating bruschetta or salsa with almost every meal. In a couple of weeks I'll make a couple batches of spaghetti sauce to can also.

 

[coach]

Cherry tomatoes we can't keep up with. Big tomatoes seem especially delicious this year but are slow ripening.

 

[GasGuzzler]

Cherry tomatoes we can't keep up with. Big tomatoes seem especially delicious this year but are slow ripening.

I took three bags of 18 each cherry tomatoes to the golf course to pass out two weeks ago and the guy (I know) riding with me ate them all in three holes.