My sister made this banner for me, the tomato is a Delicious. or was anyway. I have given up, my seeds must have gotten mixed, but I am having a great harvest and sharing plenty.

I live in Chicago and have a 4x6' plot in a neighborhood community garden. I'm growing Black Krims, Green Zebras, Sweet 100's, Boxcar Willie and some yellow cherry tomatoes. I've only been harvesting for the last week or so but I've already harvested 16lbs :)

I've really enjoyed checking out everyone's photos. I can't believe how healthy some of your plants look. Most of mine are crispy brown, despite me watering at least every second day. They're still producing though, so I'm grateful for that

Brandywine Suddeth just shy of 1.5 pounds. Oddly one of my best plants this year with approx 20 tomatoes all 1 pound +.

Very nice tomatoes, everyone! I don't always comment but I always love to look at the pictures.

Black and Brown Boar:

Various cherry tomatoes:

I feel like a piker after looking at all those great tomatoes, we don't get enough heat during the summer to ripen beefsteak types and not much production from most heirlooms.

These are Jet Stars, they do pretty well for us.

Here is my Black Zebra plant. It has a fair amount of fruit on it and we have harvested 2 so far but it does take a long time to ripen!

Those JET STARS look great to me !

green, what an unusual looking tomato. That Black and Brown Boar is lovely. How does it taste?

Here is my first weeks (approx) worth of Chocolate Stripes. 25 Lbs. Italian Heriloom is close behind with close to 20 Lbs harvested in the first week.

CH

Wow, another great looking batch of tomatoes. I really love the looks of these red with green stripes varieties.

About four quarts out of the six quarts I picked today in this bag of the JULIET tomatoes. I know that some of you on this forum hate Juliets. But they are so productive and my neighbors two kids eat all I can give them. They got these. Me, I love Juliets and will be planting them again next year.

This year I'm vert pleased with my San Marzano Redortas that I am growing for sauce.

Thank God for the trickle irrigation during this drought!

crazyoldgoose in Md

Red boar from seed giveaway.

Barnhart, your picture of Red Boar caused me to do a search for it on the web.

I stumbled upon the website for Wild Boar Farms. I have seen some of these varieties listed at Heritage Seed but not all of them. In fact until I stumbled upon their own website I didn't know there were more to be had. What fabulous looking tomatoes. I am going to have to have many of these for myself next spring! And so beautuful on top of everything else. Wow!

Here is a link that might be useful: Wild Boar Farms

Toddler approved taste too (the only honest food critics).

Barnhart, I am sure those taste great!

Today I picked and also ate some of the VIVIA ITALIAS that are just really getting into production now. They taste really good even to eat fresh. Bet these will make fabulous sauce and salsa. Have to get some pictures soon. I never wanted to eat Romas fresh but the Vivia Italias taste so much better than those old Romas used to.

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Baby German Queen tomato - the plant that this is on broke last night, so hopefully she'll make it!

German Queens taste good, I have had that variety in the past.

Here is the biggest tomato I have picked this year so far. 1 pound 13 ounces BEEFMASTER picked this morning.

My tomatoes are finally blushing in Seattle. The first tomato on Kimberley started breaking a few days ago, about 67 days after transplant and 2 days before Sungold.

Tomatoes blushing on Kimberley in mid-August
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Reif Red Heart 1 pound 9 ounces.

It was delicious! Not too bad for a 5 gal bucket SWC.

Lemon cherry:

Green cherry:

Various tomatoes

Is that a Chocolate Stripe in the bottom left? What do they taste like?

ed, great tomato!

green, love the mixed batch.

Seven quarts of Juliet tomatoes I picked today.

Nice Beefmaster Rita! I've gotten them up to a little over 2 lbs. I'd post a picture but it would not be recent. Those Juliet's look great too.

Here are my seedlings today, they'll be three weeks old Saturday. Set date is 9/15 here in Zone 10 Florida if no hurricanes are predicted for the week. Tallest/healthiest:

Beefmaster
Vinson Watts
Monomakh's Hat
Sweet Baby Girl
First Prize
Tangella
Smarty F1
Japanese Black Trifelle

Forty plants, twenty eight spaces to set plants :-)

Tom

Those seedlings look great to me! You need to make your tomato garden space larger then you can keep all your seedlings :-))

Beefmaster to Juliet. Large tomatoes to small ones. I like all types!

I don't know how I missed it before. Crazy Old Goose, Your gardening beverage is the BEAST? LOL I thought only teenagers drank that stuff.

Edweather - I had the basket of Choc Stripes a little up the thread and I think they taste very good. A little bit rich and deep. Not a top of the palate zing like some of the higher acids tomatoes I have tried this year. Hard to describe really but Pretty big flavor, it's just mellow at the same time. It kind of just saturates you with flavor instead of punching you in the face with it. I'm also in Upstate NY and they in particular produced great for me. They are my largest plants other than sungold and the heaviest producers as well. If you ever come through Utica area look me up and you can try some in person.

CH

edweather,
On the picture it is not Chocolate Stripe , it is Black & Red Boar.
It tastes really good and also productive too.

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First attempt at posting a picture. I hope to get the actual photo, and not a code. If this doesn't work I'll try something else.

Jane
P.S. Black Krim, Kellogs Breakfast and assorted reds. Results of my "taste test" to follow. There were some real surprises for me.

OK , copy the next tag down, the HTML code not the Img code and you will have it.

TOMATOES: Beefmaster, Beefsteak, Better Boy, Big Beef, Big Boy, Big Red, Brandywine, Brandywine Black, Brandywine Pink, Brandywine Yellow, Celebrity, Celebrity (bush), Delicious, Dr. Lyle, Early Girl, Early Oregon, Early Treat, Monster, Mortgage Lifter, Red Cherry, Sun Gold, Supersteak, Supersweet 100, Supersweet, Sweet Million, Sweetie.

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COMPANION PLANTS: Artemisia, Basil, Bee Balm, Borage, Chives, Geraniums, Lovage, Marigolds, Oregano, Parsley, Petunias, Yarrow, Zinnia

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DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM:

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BENEFICIAL INSECTS: LADYBUGS

TRELLIS ROOF:

The roof serves both to:

1. Avoid overwatering or unplanned watering from heavy / long rains, and
2. Protect from strong sun, for a few days, the recently planted seedlings / companion plants

Very nice pictures, and nice tomato support system and overhead structure. A visual feast.

Jane

P.S. You are not alone. I do companion planting too.

Tx for the nice words. What companion plants do you use?

Hi Daniel,

I am growing, in close proximity to the tomato plants, dill and Bishop's lace. When those flower, the tiny flowers attract parasitic wasps that parasitize the aphids lurking on the tomatoes. This has worked well for me: minimal aphids this year, no spraying needed. Other plants include basil and cilantro which, when allowed to bolt, attract beneficial insects. Parsley serves as haven for the lacewing bug, which is an aphid predator in its larval form. This is a work in progress. I have been educating myself over the past few years--attending lectures in my area, and googling ad nauseum the topic of "Attracting Beneficial Insects to the Garden." I have slowly begun to see some improvements.
By the way, I have my own picture to post here...and would like to know how you copy the code from your image-hosting service onto this forum. Do copy (paste) the image code directly into the "Image updload" box? I tried doing that and it did not work; nothing copied. On the other hand, when I copied the code directly into the text message area, it appeared as code when "previewed", not as a photo. When the message is actually submitted, does the code then transform itself into a photo?

I am aware that one can also use the "Browse" feature to upload photo file from one's hard drive, however, I would rather go the image hosting service route (Photobucket in my case).

Jane

I use ImageShack which gives me 4-5 options of codes. I don,t know about Photobucket, but most likely it also gives you different options of codes. Copy and paste ALL those codes and see which one works.

Test...

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Black Krim Kellogg's Breakfast & assorted reds

Use this code:

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In your case:

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Btw, nice picture and nice tomatoes...

Sorry: In order for the code to work, remove the space in before the letter a in .

Daniel, thank you for creating the link and for additional instructions.
Apologies to all for cluttering up this thread with all my technical issues.
Jane

heres a few

Nice. I would say more than a few :-))

thats what im talkin about !!!

Beautiful...

I would replace the white bread with some Lithuanian bread, and I would add some Bulgarian cheese and

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Yummy!

Luckly, we can get those, and MUCH more, here in New York.

Today's Black Cherry haul.

Very nice.

Better Bush picked today. Lovely tomatoes on a short stocky plant which is perfect for a container. Mine is in one. Produces well but the tomatoes have no flavor. Will not be planting them again next year.

This made 7 quarts of sauce and I had a dozen toms left to take to Church.

Must add a few shots of our tomatoes!

Left to right: Black Cherry, Snow White, Sungold, and Galina's

German Giant. Just over 1 lb., there are bigger ones on the plant:)

Dagma's Perfection

Orange Russian 117. Very happy with these!

Overall, a great season for tomatoes....even with getting the plants out at least 7-10 days into June!!