GenXNEGeorgia said:I'm so excited we're getting fruit this year (though I've put tenfold more work into it this year). I'm amazed and humbled by nature; growing everything from seed to fruit has been very rewarding for me!

Data re: heirloom tomatoes through today. It's been a wet (and now, warm) season, so production has been slow but delicious

Nice table, but way too much work for me. I just hand write in a notebook the information.

I totally understand; I love keeping paper records but once I started keeping manual records, they got out of control. Within months, I ran out of pages for all our plants, didn't have enough room for comments from year after year of gardening; and there wasn't a place for me to track rainfall.

I also desperately needed a spray and fertilization schedule that can quickly be flexible when there's a rain delay or if I need to allow 24 hours w/o rain after application. With a calendar, it just got too messy and it was another 'separate place' to keep the information.

I use Excel daily for work, so using it has made it easier to maintain the data because all formulas are already there, I don't have to manually calculate anything, and I can keep "infinite" data sets which I can compare over years. It was hard to stick to using the digital stuff only but found it makes my life a ton easier and the plants are much healthier this year.

can i protect my 4 tomato plants with cheese cloth at night against worms?

chlene36 said:can i protect my 4 tomato plants with cheese cloth at night against worms?

I have never heard of anyone covering tomato plants at night.

chlene36 said:can i protect my 4 tomato plants with cheese cloth at night against worms?

give it a try and let us know how it works

Do the worms attack at only night and are they absent during the day?

chlene36 said:can i protect my 4 tomato plants with cheese cloth at night against worms?

What kind of "worms" are you having a problem with?

Otherwise, though, there really is no reason that you couldn't cover your tomato plants with cheesecloth or insect netting of some kind; tomatoes are basically self pollinating.

Some Cowlick strain Brandwine tomatoes that I picked. We have had too much rain so much splitting. I have been growing this Cowlick strain for what 4 years now? They do taste very good bit production is not that fabulous. I think I might not grow them next year in spite of the fabulous taste.

Yesterday's picking of mostly blacks and hearts with an orange salad sized (for my wife) thrown in. Now getting about 30 lbs per day. Every black so far has had fabulous flavor. The fruit size is smaller and the plants are shorter this year than normal. It is the early heat I am sure.

Newyorkrita said:Some Cowlick strain Brandwine tomatoes that I picked. We have had too much rain so much splitting. I have been growing this Cowlick strain for what 4 years now? They do taste very good bit production is not that fabulous. I think I might not grow them next year in spite of the fabulous taste.

• Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum 'Brandywine, Cowlick's')
• Uploaded by Newyorkrita

Hmmmm too much rain, i think i remember what that is like!

Very nice tomatoes.

Lots of problems with splitting here, too, due to all of our rain. But, I managed to get a good roasting pan full of my imperfect tomatoes and made a nice pan of roasted tomatoes for sauce. The tomatoes were so sweet it almost tasted as if sugar had been added to the sauce. I refuse to lose any tomatoes--even those that aren't perfect make great sauce.

I use all my imperfect tomatoes. They still taste really good.

I tasted my Brad's Black Heart yesterday. The flavor was good, slightly sweet (improved with a little salt), but the texture was, how to put it, stringy. I couldn't get a good slice across it, it kept breaking up into sections, kind of how a whole roasted eggplant will break up. I am going to attribute it to the fact I couldn't eat it for 3 days after harvest.
Winner for me flavorwise is still the Sweet Ozark Orange. I just wish I'd have more than one fruit off of it by now.

I've been reading through this great thread clear back to posts from 2015 and wow, really good information here. What is ATF?

Deeby, All Time Favorite.

Thanks. Great thread!

TOMATO DATASHEET TODD 7 AVAILABLE
The latest, and probably last, edition of my Tomato Description Datasheet, TODD7, is now available. Usable in Excel, Open Office and Numbers apps, it lists traits and grower descriptions of over 1300 tomato varieties, including color, size, shape, weight, season, flavor, plant size and many more. You can sort and filter this information to find tomatoes that match your needs.

To download the information/instruction file, enter:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/urf7...
in your browser address. Ignore the request to sign in, select Download, and then click on Direct Download in the resulting drop-down menu. Todd7.pdf will appear in your download folder.

To download the TODD7 datasheet itself, enter:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ffq...
in your brower address. As above, click Download and Direct Download and TODD7.xlsx will appear in your download folder.

Heirlooms I intend to be growing this year include ==

Golden Queen USDA Strain
Rose De Bern
Black Plum
Juanne Flamme
Ivory Egg