We're fighting caterpillars for tomatoes this year...we're picking early! Garden Growers
Aug 31, 2010
I pick them before they are really ripe, I don't like them to get too soft. Those are a beatiful variety. I took some ugli-ripe heirloom tomatoes from the store and saved the seeds and planted them last year. It worked except they never got ripe due to the terrible weather. This year I did a no-mulch area and due to circumstances never took off the covering. Two HUGE tomato plants esacped the edge of the covering and are thriving even with no rain. That's what is so cool with heriloom, if the tomatos fall on the ground they'll reseed themselvs! Dave
Aug 31, 2010
FINALLY, the brandwine is (almost) ripe! Do you leave yours on the vine until soft, or pick them so the plant can focus on the next tomatoes?
Portland, OR | clay | Zone 8
We're fighting caterpillars for tomatoes this year...we're picking early!
Garden Growers
Aug 31, 2010
I pick them before they are really ripe, I don't like them to get too soft. Those are a beatiful variety. I took some ugli-ripe heirloom tomatoes from the store and saved the seeds and planted them last year. It worked except they never got ripe due to the terrible weather. This year I did a no-mulch area and due to circumstances never took off the covering. Two HUGE tomato plants esacped the edge of the covering and are thriving even with no rain. That's what is so cool with heriloom, if the tomatos fall on the ground they'll reseed themselvs!
Dave
Aug 31, 2010
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