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04/18/08, 10:16 AM
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Tomatoes - Working On A New Record
I have tomatoes (Celebrity) in the garden that are the size of billiard balls. My old records for the earliest tomato that was ripe was 13 May. I have 25 days for these tomatoes to ripen. I wonder if they will get ripe and set a new personal record??
Our spinach and lettuce is just about done, beets are coming and we have been harvesting sugar snap and Chinese pea pods for the past week.
I sure do like South Central Texas' growing seasons.
Last edited by YuccaFlatsRanch; 04/18/08 at 10:18 AM.
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04/18/08, 10:52 AM
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OOOOOOOOOOOOO I envy you! My tomato plants are about 4" tall on the kitchen windowsill. We are thrilled if we get a ripe one by the 4th of July.
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04/18/08, 11:19 AM
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By the 4th of July we are almost (notice I said almost) tired of fresh tomatoes, BLT's still going strong though and canning in progress.
By then it is time for fresh peaches.
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04/18/08, 11:27 AM
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Our peach tree's are loaded with little peaches this year. Gotta love Texas! 
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04/18/08, 11:44 AM
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Wow, Yucca Flats, thats pretty good. Mine are barely marble size- but I do have a lot of them coming on. I've eaten quite a few sugar snaps(my first year) and will have green beans within a couple of days-maybe tonight. Lots of shallots, a few onions. I lost my potatoes to a project. I have zucchini starting to produce but the fruit gets about 3 inches long and turns brown on the flowering end??
Longhorn, you may want to start thinning those peaches. 10 pounds of big peaches are a whole lot better eating than 10 pounds of little peaches.
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04/18/08, 11:55 AM
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Please tell me you guys are kidding. Please?
It's starting to snow here.
Janis
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04/18/08, 12:17 PM
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You beat me to it, Janis. Not snowing here yet, but forecast for tonight and tomorrow! I am just a few miles from Puget Sound and it isn't supposed to snow here in April, for gosh sakes. I haven't been able to plant anything yet. It'll be October before I get ripe tomatoes 
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04/18/08, 12:37 PM
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Limey:
I know and then in October we'll get a freeze and we will make that leap from summer to winter with no fall in between. Like the winter to summer (in August) leap with no spring in between we seem to be making this year.
I'm wondering if with the low temperatures they're predicting for the next couple of nights I should cover the strawberries and herbs I've planted. With the three whole days of Spring we've had so far, that's all I've gotten in the ground and I sure don't want to lose them. Those and one rhubarb plant.
Janis
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04/18/08, 12:56 PM
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OH Great, just great, now I have tomato envy.
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04/18/08, 02:20 PM
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I hope to have my tomatoes in the ground before May15th.....I might get them in by May 1st this year.....
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04/18/08, 02:32 PM
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We normally can safely plant tomatoes around the end of May, average last frost date is first day or so of June, here in Western Wisconsin. But we always put a few out as early as possible, and last year we made salsa with our own peppers, tomatoes, onions, and cilantro for July 4th--and had our first tomatoes June 15th. But that was an exception year for us. We are straight east of Minneapolis-St Paul, and still have patches of snow today, but it is mostly gone, and the remainder of the snow is melting in the light rain.
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04/18/08, 02:37 PM
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It's snowing now....and it's sticking.
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04/18/08, 03:48 PM
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Been eating my tomatoes for six weeks now. Nice not having to go to the store to buy them. Peas are flowering and climbing up a storm. I still have a month before the lettuce, cauliflower, and cabbage are ready to eat.
Of course having eighty five degree days does help out a bunch...
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04/18/08, 04:24 PM
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My rhubarb is just starting to come up.Peonies are barely coming up.Asparagus is not up.I have green peppers,tomatoes,cukes,cabbage,and muskmelon plants up in the basement.The garden is tilled for the first time,but it will be a while before we can transplant anything.You southern folks make me jealous.I would love to be able to raise my own peaches.
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04/19/08, 10:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by virtualco
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Been eating my tomatoes for six weeks now. Nice not having to go to the store to buy them. Peas are flowering and climbing up a storm. I still have a month before the lettuce, cauliflower, and cabbage are ready to eat.
Of course having eighty five degree days does help out a bunch...
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You beat me to it. I picked my first tomato last weekend along with a cucumber. I picked seven more tomatoes today and three more cucumbers. I pulled up my lettuce as they were about 6 feet tall with seeds. The carrots actually went to seed this year too. We have a week of low to mid 80s all week so next week may be a gang buster. I also saw some bell peppers that are about the size of a golf ball this morning along with some zuchini and crook neck. Here's to loving spring!!!! 
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04/19/08, 10:58 PM
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Well, I do have tomato envy but not Texas heat envy. However,...
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Originally Posted by WisJim
We normally can safely plant tomatoes around the end of May, average last frost date is first day or so of June, here in Western Wisconsin. ....
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Our average last freeze date in April 15th. This year, we appear to be a full month behind schedule as we also had a snow storm today. It didn't stick here but it was a full fledged snowstorm for over an hour. And it will probably be down in the 20's tonight. 
Freaky weather. Maybe a good reason to get a greenhouse.
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04/20/08, 11:17 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
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"Well, I do have tomato envy but not Texas heat envy. However,..."
You just have to live in the right part of Texas. The Texas Hill Country is surprisingly mild in its summertime temps (due to adequate rain) and surprising lower in Humidity. We like to say we are an oasis of zone 7 in a sea of zone 8. Even our heat zone on the USDA heat zone map is lower. In fact you can find us in the little circle that you will see just NW of San Antonio. My home sits at about 2400 feet above sea level and we are consistently 5-6 degrees cooler than San Antonio, and 10-15% lower in humidity.
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