I'm just starting to get some Sungolds here in Northern VA, near DC. The other varieties are still green.

I'm drowning in cherry tomatoes. Giving them away.

I picked my first large one today, a Crimson Cushion. It was good but not mind-blowing. Sadly, it was the only fruit on the plants, and I don't have any more blossoms on it.

In fact, I am getting few blossoms on all my plants. I have stopped foliar spraying with kelp, having become convinced that it might be a cause of some of the leaf problems I was having. I have tried soil-drenching instead with the kelp (GrowMore), but still not getting many blossoms or fruit.

My Brandywine has one fruit. Aunt Gertie's has one. Burgundy Traveler has three. Indian Stripe is loaded up and ready to pick soon. Black Pineapple has about four. Paul Robeson, zero, but it's getting blossoms now.

I used too much steer manure this year. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Hi. I'm new here. I was looking for a garden forum about tomatoes, and found you guys. I'm in the tidewater area of Virginia, and I've got a grape tomatoe thats loaded with fruit and two are showing color. My other 3 types have only blossoms. The wait is worth it!

Delaware here. I grow a plant or two indoors all winter so I'm actually never without homegrowns. My outdoor plants have lots of green toms but no color yet. SunGold will be first and I'm guessing about a week to go.

Bigdaddyj, Was it you that mentioned Red Robin as an inside fav?

What a neat little plant. Sturdy, lush, loaded and less than a foot tall. If the taste is half as impressive as this little variety, I'll have a couple through the winter for sure.

Thanks.

I have Sungolds ripening here in the Washington DC area.

My sister up in Maine reports the farmer's market is offering homegrown Maine tomatoes. The grower starts them planted in the soil but with a greenhouse over them, then removes the cover when the weather settles, by which time they are already starting to color up. They get that sun-ripened flavor two months early and he gets premium prices to cover his cost and then some. Has no problem asking $5. a pound and has customers lining up to purchase.

Ontario
Sungold (josho container, plant is about 3' high)
My leggy sungold is fruiting!
Very weird this year. My other tomatoes are less than a 18" tall and all have flowers. Never done that before.

I'm in southern California and have been picking toms for about a month. The first were Sungold and Sweet 100, then the Stupice came on. Last week I picked my first ripe Black Prince - YUM! - now I know why heirlooms are given such high praise. I've got a Brandywine that will probably be ready to eat tonight, it's my first taste of that variety and I can't wait. Early Girl, Big Beef and Patio Princess are just starting to color up. I've got two fruit on my Cherokee Purple, one on my Kellogg's Breakfast but Aunt Ruby's GG just doesn't seem to want to set, darn it!

I used to gow Red Robin's in my sunny bay window all winter but the last two years I grew 'Momotarao'. Red Robins were OK but Momo's taste way better! Next year I'm going to grow a couple New Big Dwarf plants because the Momotaro plants just had too much pruning involved. It's fun to experiment. Red Robin is an excellent choice for winter window growing though.

Thanks.

I recall pics of your window and Momotarao, very nice.

I can't quite give em that but I can give them half of a south facing patio slider.

Thanks again!

None here, as I just finally got mine in the ground last week.
I saw 'Indiana' grown tomatoes for sale somewhere last week. I passed on them as the last 'home grown' ones I bought at a market (early) were hard and tasted like cardboard. I'll just wait for my own...or a neighbor's since he got several planted out a lot earlier than I did.

Sue

bigdaddyj, could you please go into a bit more detail on how you grow your tomatoes in a sunny window over the winter months ? That sounds great and I would love to try that .

Rane

Lot's of green ones but only 2 red Stupice so far.

Dave

2 flowers on an Earl's Faux, but not a tomato in sight.

I've had Stupice, Kimberly, Silvery Fir Tree, Lucky Leprechaun, and SuperSweet 100 here in zone 6 in WV, but I cheat. The in ground tomatoes are just starting to form so I'm a long way off from the good stuff. :-)

Randy

Timmy, I think you win so far with that picture. My Silvery Fir Tree and Stupice have flowers.

I live on long island, down-state, i planted my tomatoes in begining of may, i got the seeds at walgreens, and i didnt think they would make it becuase the seeds were cheap and we had some frost, but now i have over 30 8-inch plants, so you'd be surprised what a little water and home depot topsoil fertilizer for tomatoes can do, im expecting a plentifull harvest by the end of july or august, ill probably end up pickling them becuase ill have so much, so the key thing about growing any type of tomatoes is sunlight, water, tomatoe fertilizer, and a little bit of love

my first ripening tomatoes...

Most everything has blooms, but the only plants to set fruit so far are some cherry/grape tomatoes (Sweet Million, Sungold, Sweet Baby Girl, Sugary, Red Grape)....some small fruited varieties (Jaune Flamme/1, Roma 3 plants/20+ tomatoes, Opalka's. The first large to set are on some Sioux's (3) and Arkansas Traveler's (2). Nothing even blushing yet, so it'll be a little while yet.

I used to grow a couple dwarf Red Robin plants in my sunny bay window all winter. I timed them to start producing about when my summer crop stopped in mid October. The last two years I've grown a large Momotaro indeterminant plant. That worked well too but it takes up too much space. So next year I will try a couple New Big Dwarf plants. Here's a pic of this year's Momotaro plant taken a few months ago. It has been giving me 2 to 3 fruit per week since October. I hope to have even better luck with New Big Dwarf next year.

zone 7, near seatle. I've eaten ~5 so far.
7-10 threatening to ripen.

My mom has had about 30(cherries) with a couple more added to the tally every day.

not bad considering late july or august is normal.

I have some Sungold setting on, lots of flowers on Brandywine, Brandy Boy, Better Boy, Paul Robeson, Eva, and others but no fruit set yet. Too much rain, not enough sunlight. Plants look healthy and I spray once a week with Daconil. Just waiting. Strawberries harvested are pretty but sour. Just need a little sun and warmth for more than 2 days in a row.

Sungold should be ripe in a week and all other cherries have set bodacious amount of fruit. For the larger ones, Lemon Boy, Golden Queen, Box Car Willie, Black Prince, and Pink Ping Pong have all set fruit. Everybody else is blooming and I'm hoping for a good fruit set, although it just turned hot this week. I'm in the SF Bay area, on the peninsula, where it gets cold and foggy at night. So cold and foggy and windy in fact that I usually have terrible luck with fruit set, so this year we built a greenhouse and I am delighted to be getting fruit!

Most of my plants have fruit on them, but no ripe ones yet. I think I'm about a week away from the first ripe one, either a Lemon Boy, Murray Smith, or Unknown Small Fruited. All the folks in the South with ripe tomatoes are making me jealous.

I have a few...bags..that I gave away fer a water melon..

Happy Gardening.

this was posted earlier, as a gentleman was tired of the salmonella scare..he gave me a melon, I let him pick these..
we ate..all is good.

I picked two ripe tommy toe cherries this week. Other than that, this is my inventory:

Momotaro: few blossoms, zero fruit;
Mortgage Lifter: 15 blossoms, two very small tomatoes;
Prudens Purple: 50 blossoms dropping for weeks, zero fruit;
Cherokee Purple: 15 green tomatoes, 20 blossoms.
Cherries:
Tommy Toe: 20 green, two blushing, 100 blossoms
Snow White: 8 green, 25 blossoms
Sweet Baby Girl: 50 green, 50 blossoms

Not enjoying this beach climate as much as I thought I would.

*I found the photo on Google. It is a visual representation of my brain activity as I ate my two ripe Tommy Toes this week.

I love the pictures everyone! It'll be a couple months, I think, before I see tomatoes. ~sigh~

I see tomatos...unfortunatly right now they are still about the size of a pencil eraser ;) But I'm NOT complaining!

My tomatos had just recently started flowering and I was trying to see if anything set fruit from it. I have at least 1 cherokee purple, 1 fox cherry and 1 roma...but I'm sure there are more of all of the above (I hope).

It'll be nice to see how everything looks after I get back from a 1week vacation next week.

Laura

I've got quite a few baby greens showing. The plants are growing like weeds though and I suspect by the 4th I will be elbow deep in cherry, roma, and betterboy tomatoes.

one Brandy Red- a teeny little nickle size but i'll take it! A couple stems of red cherries to but no where near ready.
Lots of flowers on the others and since it's my first in ground garden after many container years, I'm hopeful.

There's quite a few of you making me jealous. Ahhh, tomato envy! My Brandy Boy now has blossoms.

Booberry-

I hope I will be getting Tomatoes soon. They are coming from my hoop building. I have my farmer's market starting on the 21st. I am hoping I will have tomatoes for that.

Some of my Sungolds, in pots, are getting close too!

I will post pictures when I can.

I picked my first tomatoes the other day. They are big, green Romas. My first tomatoes of size each year are for making Fried Green Tomatoes. My little boy loved gardening and we did this every year together. Now I carry on this tradition alone, fondly remembering those good times I had with my blue-eyed angel. I miss his company, but the tomatoes are still yum! He would approve.

There will soon be gobs of red, ripe Romas to eat and can.

Early Girl has small green fruit, as does Juliet.
Everything else is blooming like crazy.

With all this rain, I pruned my Brandywines yesterday, removing all the lower branches up to the blossom branches to prevent them from getting powdery mildew, mold and fungus.

I will feel blessed for whatever fruit I get this year with all the crazy weather we are having! At least my house and gardens haven't gotten washed away or blown away...yet! We even had earthquakes last week. Oh my Gosh!

My heart goes out to all those who have lost so much in the tornadoes and floods. Watch out all you folks living in lower Louisiana! All that floodwater and debris that is pouring into the Mighty Mississippi right now is heading your way...and how!

~ sweetannie4u

sweet 100's, early girl, and a bush goliath is just about ready.
ate the 1st sweet 100 yesterday

Got vines as big as my thumb and about 10-15 tomatoes on each plant 4-5 ft high, but none ripe. Seems like its taking forever this year. After 3 6++ inch downpours,one 11 inch flood,then 5 straight days with wind gusts over 40mph that turned some squash into tumbleweeds and then one renegade Longhorn cow attack who ate my corn patch down to nubs I feel really lucky my garden looks as good as it does. Been a weird year.

I've picked about 40 cherries so far between my Supersweet 100 and sungold with the black cherries starting to turn today so it won't be long now!!! I've heard a lot about them from this forum and cannot wait to try them, especially since the sungold has lived up to the hype so far.

As far as the big ones are concerned, it looks like the Paul Robeson will be the first off the vine. 2 of them started to blush a couple of days ago, so I will be getting my first taste of a black tomato real soon.

I spotted my first tomato blossom today, on my Roma. The Opalka, Sausage, and Black Plum all have buds but no flowers yet.

I was weeding my garden and ran across several Sweet Gold Cherry tomatoes. This is a new variety for me. My wife and kids were excited! They said they tasted good. Me, I was disappointed. I was hoping I could harvest the first tomato out of my hoop building, not outside. I know it was a cherry, but I was hoping to bring in a Big Beef from the hoop building first.

I know in a matter of 2 weeks or less, I will be flooded with red ripe tomatoes! YUM!

I am just past my peak. The plants are not looking too great at this point, but my table looks good! Don't mistake quantity for quality. There are some fantastic tomatoes on that table, but some are there because they are intact. In other words, some are kinda bland. None taste bad though.

Plus the 'wormmies' that went straight to the scrap pile.
The worms tore me up this year.

I've only been able to eat some from my Celebrity's so far. I'm still waiting on my Bush Goliath and Better Boy to produce. It's hotter than hades here in W. Texas and extremely dry. It makes it tough on a tomato lover.