Slow tomatoes

[digitS']

. . . He took one bite of the Japanese Black then started saving the seeds. . .

I do that, too !

My technique is to allow juice from the 2nd bite to splatter on my shirt front . . . When I leave, I know that I've got a few seeds glued there amongst the buttons .

Steve's digits

nice to know about the earliness of this "black" . Thank you.

 

[vfem]

Due to bad pests lately, and disease issues... I wait until there is some yellow/orange/red just starting on the tomatoes and pick them then. Then I let them finish on the counter. I do this more often in September so I can get the tomatoes OUT and the cool weather crops in!

 

[theOEGBman]

It seemed like mine took forever as well! Then I went out one afternoon and noticed my first ripe one. So I checked my other plants and picked 20 more! I had one that had a dozen ripe ones right in the center of the plant that I hadnt even noticed. Just wait, you'll see green one day and an explosion of color the next pretty soon.

 

[curly_kate]

We're getting down to 57 tonight! And only into the upper 70s by the end of the week. The weather is lovely, but not good for my veggies!

 

[HunkieDorie23]

My garden is very slow this year also.

I have heard that you can cut the roots to speed up tomatoes. You take a knife with a long blade 8" or so and cut down one side of the roots. This causes stress on the plant and it go into hyper drive and ripens quickly. I would only do this if you needed the tomatoes and are not going to continue with your plants for the rest of the season because it does harm the plant.

I just started my first batch of pickles today. Last year I was almost done with cucumbers by now. Weird