Don't forget to plant your tomato seed.

[Jolly]

Maybe not for all of us, but for those in the Deep South, now is the time to plant tomato seed for your fall tomatoes.

About fall tomatoes from LSU Ag:


http://www.lsuagcenter.com/news_arch...nd+peppers.htm

[Nimrod]

I'm jealous. The tomatoes I planted on June 1 (last frost) are just putting out flowers. We have had a cold wet spring. My tomatoes will likely be still green in the fall and have to ripen in bags in the house so they don't freeze.

[FarmboyBill]

I bought seed today. Sign wont be right till Aug 2

[k9]

Count me as jealous too.... good for you.

[k9]

not quite as bad as Nimrod, we have had a few ripe ones out of the garden, mostly Black Krim...

[whiterock]

I have some indeterminate that will slow down in the heat then pick back up when the fall gets here. Seldom plant any late season maters.
Ed

[DavidUnderwood]

I planted some seeds a week ago. With very little protection,
we can have tomatoes and squash till the first of December
most years. I usually plant just a lil bit of silver queen corn
on my birthday (8-6) every year, and almost always get some
corn. We start collard seeds about now each year, and taters
about mid August.

[BlackFeather]

If I planted tomatoes, they would be killed by frost before any were ready to harvest, boy I'm for global warming, I'd love to have fall tomatoes. I did plant peas for the fall, and my spring string beans didn't do much so I planted some that should be ready by mid- September,I hope I can get enough to can. I just received Kale, Spinach, and Swiss chard which I hope will produce before winter kills it, be planting it in two days. Corn is interesting, I read one should plant corn 2 weeks apart so corn will come ripe continuously for a while, funny thing it doesn't matter when I plant corn, It always tassels out in late July and is ready to harvest about the second week of August, regardless of its height. Must be nice to have a very long growing season.

[bugstabber]

I wish I could do that!

[PrettyPaisley]

I love those two words in the same sentence. "Fall tomatoes" - Yay !

I started mine three days ago with a second round of cucumbers. My second batch of summer squash is also flowering and I'm planting another crop of green beans and peas. I'm also wondering out loud if I can plant a third round of summer squash.

I <3 the South.

[Dixie Bee Acres]

I have never heard of fall tomatoes. Of course in my climate, it couldn't be done.
But even if it could, I don't understand why, by nature a tomato plant is a perinial.
Granted, our winters are too harsh for a tropical perinial to survive, but, in the southern US, with an extended growing season, do the spring plants lose productivity in the fall?

[FarmboyBill]

Ive already got the taters to plant. Ill be planting them round middle of Aug also.

[DavidUnderwood]

PrettyPaisley, squash will make in less than 2 months, and keep
making till frost kills them. I'm fixing to plant more yellow squash
and zucchini. I usually plant a few straight necks every 6 or 8
weeks till August because the bugs sometimes kill them.