Too many tomatoes

10 years ago

Well, I always seem to do this. It's not as bad as it was last year, but I still have way too many tomato plants. I was taking out suckers all summer, and since I can't stand to throw cuttings away, I would stick them in a pot somewhere and let them root. The bad part is, I forgot to tag some of them. I know they are only two types: Early Girl and a NOID large red cherry tomato, I just don't know which is which. Then there are the ones I'm growing from seed this year. I think I'm going to put the extras out in the strip along the wall and just let them be "community tomatoes," that anyone can have. I won't baby them or try to make them bear especially well, just stick them in the ground and stake them and let them go. It's better than throwing them away. Last year, I begged people to take my tomato seedlings, but no one wanted them, so this year, I'll just plant them for the neighborhood.

BTW, last year I planted one of my tomatoes in a pot that I had filled 50/50 with oak leaves and Florida sand. I also put some veggie scraps and coffee grounds into it as it grew. Well, lo and behold, I dug that soil out this year, and it was beautiful black, crumbly soil. I layered it with oak leaves and put it back in, so we'll see how it looks next year. I had sterilized it with boiling water (3 pots poured through) and when I pulled out the old plants, there were very few root knot nematodes. Healthiest tomato roots I had seen in awhile.

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whgille
10 years ago
Most of my tomatoes are ready for the garden, always grow some for the community garden and I gave them already for planting. I will have too many tomatoes once the harvest come but for now it is the time to grow....

Silvia
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10 years ago
Do you give them new pots every year? Mine are in ugly pots and buckets, but they grow just as well.
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whgille
10 years ago
My pots are older than 5 years, after the season is done I wash them with soap and water and store them in the garage, I got them at sale in big lots. It is the right size for 1 tomato, 3 cucumber plants or 3 pepper plants, after all these years and using them twice a year they still look good. I like that they are light color, lightweight and keep some sort of aesthetics in the garden even if it is for my eyes only....:)

Silvia
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10 years ago
Last year I decided to experiment with seeds from tomatoes bought at Publix. I really like the Tasti-Lee variety so I scooped the seeds out of one, put them on a paper plate and dried them out on the Lanai. Then I planted them. Lo and behold they came up and some of them are still going, although parts of them got stung by the cold even though they were covered. I have some more dried and ready to plant in small pots, hope it's not too late for them. I'm going to try this with some green peppers that are a little over the hill in the frig. now. We have some beautiful collards, Kale and Romaine lettuce, but for some reason the Swiss Chard is still small, can't figure that one out.