Homegrown Tomatoes! Any one else gardening this year?

[sampatterson]

Just picked 9 giant tomatoes last night from our garden - we ate 5 of them sliced, with salt and pepper with Dinner. They were great.

Any other amateur (or professional ) gardeners out there?

This year we have tomatoes, squash (yellow and zuchini), egg plant, cilantro, habanero, Jalapeno, and tabasco peppers, and all the various herbs.

Gardening is a great stress reliever.

 

[Cyclone]

Man I miss homegrown tomatoes. No garden here, townhouse.

 

[Stargazer]

I have grown tomatoes for several years now (the main plant I have in the garden) and it tastes a bit better than in the grocery stores and a lot cheaper too. They want as much as 30-50 cents a tomato around here if you had to buy them from the grocer.

I also grow a lot of onions with the green tops. They grow fast, do well, and are easy to maintain and plant. Also have cucumbers, lettuce, bell and hot peppers.

 

[dfergie]

Have not planted in 3 years, drought conditions. I miss making homemade salsa I always planted tomatoes, habeneros, jalepenos and squash. (miss fresh yellow squash too)

 

[Oakenshld]

Got a few this year myself. I grew up down the road a piece in Hanover, VA we used to grow "Hanover" tomatoes every year. I plant the same thing here up the road, they just dont taste as good as they did back home though....I guess nothing ever does.

 

[DarrellP]

My mouth is watering. The only thing I have home grown is dandelions, no time for gardening (or the space or the soil, or the green thumb). A buddy keeps me supplied though, he has a huge garden.

 

[sampatterson]

Had BLTs with the tomatoes over the weekend. What a great sandwich especially with HG Tomatoes.

 

[Stargazer]

The cucumbers are really taking off now over the past week or so. They grow faster than I thought they did. The tomatoes seem to be doing well too. The carrots must have been planted too deep as they took a bit longer to come up. Onions always does well.

I have been wanting to grow watermelons but need to know how to make them grow big. I tried the last few years but must have gotten too late of a start as they were small but not that big before the end of the growing season. They must need a lot of water.