Your tomatoes are doing so well, Bonnie!!

I've just got the two from the Spring swap:

Sprite

and Yellow Pear

I was going to take some pictures of my tomatoes today, but there's something not right with my camera. I think it's probably time to buy new rechargeable batteries. These don't seem to want to keep a charge.

I have roughly 20 Sausage (I'm still losing some to BER. :-( )

5 Roma on one plant and 2 developing on the younger Roma.
1 Opalka
3 Black Plum

I have flower clusters on the Garden Candy cherry, Viva Italia, and Orange Banana. I replanted a third Roma into a larger pot inside. Yes, it's late to set it out, but I didn't want to give up on it. There's still summer left.

The Sunmaster and Amish Paste don't have flowers yet, but they're strong and healthy.

I've found that tomatoes seem to like white pots best. Keeps the soil temperature down.

Ok, you asked for it...
first ripe-Celebrity.

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Principe Borgehese...

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Pink Brandywine...

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Yellow pears...

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Parks Whopper...

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Hurrah!!

There are reasons these threads take so long to load . . . and here's another one!

I could have put this picture from yesterday on the lows & highs thread claiming that I was standing on a chair with the camera but no one would believe I was so foolhardy . . . .

Frost this morning may have taken the remainder of the fruit but I don't think so. I was there just before sun-up, breathed a sigh of relief that I couldn't find any frost then raced off to the dahlia garden. Where I found some . . . frost.

Sprinklers on FULL - threw water in every direction with the hose!! Then the sun came up. Had to pull a few burned petals out of the bouquets this afternoon but, well, it is supposed to warm up.

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Hey, I'd forgotten I started this thread! Nice batch of 'maters there, Digit.

Glenwood Springs, which is about 20 minutes from here, had a frost last night, but we were in the upper 30's. I sure hope that forecast is right for tonight, since I didn't put the row cover out. It's only a matter of days though I'm sure.

The big ones were made into pasta sauce, the cherries I tried to dry in the dehydrater. Not sure if it was a success or not. Notice the Opalka and San Marzano side by side. What a difference between those two!
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Bowl o' cherries (Black Cherry, Sungold, and Supersweet 100's)

Bonnie

34º right now, 8:00 am. I'll likely pick frost-sensitive stuff today, and bring it all in.

Or maybe not. Maybe just the really ripe peppers and the big 'maters.

Sigh.

Bonnie, I hadn't forgotten the thread, obviously.

I remember feeling badly in late July that I really didn't have anything to brag about in the tomato patch. Yeah, I know what kinda gardener I am.

That photo is like the shot of a string of 40 Arctic char or whatever, from someone's fly-in trip to northern Canada - not beautiful, just boastful.

d'S'

(Still, I didn't include the 2 fruit crates behind the camera heaped full with green beefsteaks . . . ha, ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, ha, ha, ha, hee, hik, . . . :o)

Digit, I can only dream of gardening on the scale of you and David, so that quantity of tomatoes is amazing to me, even if some of them are green!

The official low last night was 36, so we escaped devastation this time. There is even a reprieve in the forecast, with predicted lows in the low 40's for the next few days, and highs in the 80's. Yippee!

Bonnie