Red Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes

[MaryL]

 
I know I’ve said it before, but you’ve got a bionic plant there!

[Kate]

My husband says it will take over the house soon. One plus is that the tomatoes are getting really big this time. The few ripe ones I ate yesterday were easily golf ball size.

[MaryL]

That’s fantastic. I thought they usually get smaller with each successive group. 

[Shawn]

Between Kate's tomatoes and drbanks Peppers ...  both having a wonderful go at it.

[Kate]

The never ending tomato plants! Lots of tomatoes and still more flowers! I took this basically in the center of the mass.

[Shawn]

I see lots of green with a few red gems peeking thru

[Kate]

Yes, I plucked those after the pic. I ate several for lunch and will roast the rest with onions, garlic cloves, Tequila Sunrise peppers, zucchini and baby bella mushrooms for dinner tonight. Nummers.

[drbanks]

Nom nom nom

Great toms, BUT every time I see this thread under Recent Posts I think it is Shawn's toms even though she said she never grew toms.

Is that because Shawn started the thread for Kate when she first joined?

[Kate]

Sept 25, 2018 14:30:52 GMT -5 @cornne said:

Great toms, BUT every time I see this thread under Recent Posts I think it is Shawn's toms even though she said she never grew toms.

Is that because Shawn started the thread for Kate when she first joined?

Exactly, yes.

What a success!

[MaryL]

So thrilled for your success on this project. Tell me, do you often trim a lot of foliage, or do you just let it do it’s thing?

[Shawn]

Sept 25, 2018 14:30:52 GMT -5 @cornne said:

Great toms, BUT every time I see this thread under Recent Posts I think it is Shawn's toms even though she said she never grew toms.

Is that because Shawn started the thread for Kate when she first joined?

One day @cornne, One day  (maybe   )

[Kate]

Sept 25, 2018 15:21:49 GMT -5 MaryL said:

So thrilled for your success on this project. Tell me, do you often trim a lot of foliage, or do you just let it do it’s thing?

I did a lot when it was younger. Now I just remove old stuff and superfluous branches with no buds.

[Kate]

My babies are starting to show their age, but they have a LOT of clusters of big tomatoes. I took several that were ripe last week. You can see them better now that they're starting to change color. They want to set new buds, but I'm clipping them off. I need to clean them up somewhat, too. Lazy.

[Kate]

I was picking ripe tomatoes and thought maybe I should take an image, as there won't be many more before these will be nothing but a memory. There are still a lot of green ones. They're trying to set new flowers, which makes me feel so guilty, but it's time. They've got some leaves drying now. It's tired. G-d Bless these lovely plants that gave us so much. I know I'm a freak getting emotionally invested in plants, but there it is.

[MaryL]

I so get the feeling guilty, Kate. I’m going through that with my uber mature chives right now, which have even sent up a couple of blossoms (not good in herbs for those that don’t know).  It’s time, but I can’t bring myself to end these plants which are still very happy and robust.  Not as bad as the more invested tomato situation I know, but I still get it.  We’ve had a good run with our gardens...

[Shawn]

Just think, these can all be restarted 

[Kate]

I mentioned awhile ago that this last set of tomatoes are larger than the last. While they're not all this large, you can see the difference between a "super sweet" grape tomato from the store, and one from the Red Heirloom. It's close to a golf ball in size, and just as yummy as ever.

[Shawn]

I'd say a huge difference~