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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!

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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!

And a close up of a couple of the actual maters...

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I am sooo having fried green tomatoes this year!! YUM!

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!

Christina

Same with mine Christina, mine all have flowers on them, same with the pepper plants too.
I am so excited !!!

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...

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..

I already added it. It is my mamaw's recipe. Mmmm-Mmmmm good!!

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!

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

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.

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

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...

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.

Ciao Tonya,

I hope those stakes are tall enough. Tomato plants can get up to 10' high in the right growing conditions...

plants look nice and healthy, though. What varieties are they?

Cheers,
Julianna

They are Big Boy tomatoes, and if they out grow those stakes, I'll just make hubby cut some more, we have LOTS of unused lumber laying around!

I grew a Better Boy last year and it got about my 7 foot stakes.

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?

Tonya,

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 .

Nicky

Not nearly as tasty as the Big Beef that were planted next to them.

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!!

Mmmmmmmmmm... You guys have me drooling.

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.

I only eat white bread with tomato sandwiches and peanut butter and jelly. I LOVE fresh baked crusty Itallian bread. I love food in general!

I can't wait for my first BLT either!!

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 !!!