http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/08/12/tomatoes/ Daily photo-journal of organic market gardening: growing local food with two acres and some tools...! Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:51:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/08/12/tomatoes/#comment-1373 Mike (tfb) Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:43:53 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/08/12/tomatoes/#comment-1373 Steve: Those long seasons you have way down south kill me! :) I'd take just one good extra month of summer right about now...then again, with the weird weather, global warming, whatever, I just may get it! Steve: Those long seasons you have way down south kill me! :) I’d take just one good extra month of summer right about now…then again, with the weird weather, global warming, whatever, I just may get it!

]]> http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/08/12/tomatoes/#comment-1367 Steve Mudge Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:39:31 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/08/12/tomatoes/#comment-1367 Our tomato harvest in Fort Worth was in middle June to late July but with all the rain--40 inches mostly May through July--the fruit was watery and the bugs easily got to it....a lot ended up in sauce with less really good tasting for eating. Not that we didn't have our fill, and we were able to give some away to family and neighbors, but just not the spectacular season for tomatoes. Now the heat is over 100 and the tomatoes have shut down...just waiting for cooler weather to cut them back and try to coax the second season out of the vines. Our tomato harvest in Fort Worth was in middle June to late July but with all the rain–40 inches mostly May through July–the fruit was watery and the bugs easily got to it….a lot ended up in sauce with less really good tasting for eating. Not that we didn’t have our fill, and we were able to give some away to family and neighbors, but just not the spectacular season for tomatoes. Now the heat is over 100 and the tomatoes have shut down…just waiting for cooler weather to cut them back and try to coax the second season out of the vines.

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