Tomato Seeds, Got yours in yet??

[goldtruck59]

Gidday all

One of the great enjoyments in life is real tomatoes. I've got my seeds in the seed raising mix in the hot house and cant wait until those little green babies start to rise. As you get older if you aint finding gold the next best thing to beer is growing fruit and veges.
If you have not got yours in, DO IT NOW !! you wont regret it.
Tell us about your seeds and what spring brings for you.
GT

 

[Solid Luck]

I'll be sowing a few this weekend GT. I'll keep a close eye on this thread as I love my 'maters.

 

[Bacchus]

Running with Grosse Lisse this year for salads , a good all rounder and disease tolerant . Beefsteak for the pasta sauce , huge fruit and low acidity great for bottling with a bit of basil and salt ! Late frosts means a late start for us hills dwellers but can't beat home grown. Now you just need Nugget to dig the holes GT

Cheers

 

[Wally69]

My thumbs are gangrenous, anything I plant tends to drop dead.

Doesn't stop me trying. I have some pink garlic in the garden, not sure if I planted them at the right time of year or not but they have been in the ground for a couple of months and are still green, so maybe...........just maybe

Thankfully I can rely on my brother, his crop usually takes out first place at the show. There is nothing quite like fresh pink roasted garlic to accompany a lamb roast and his homegrown pumpkin.

 

[AtomRat]

Will be doing mine in next few days. Still gotta turn the soil

 

[Ramjet]

I am way behind this year. Really must get my tomato and chilli plants in the ground. Love a vege patch. Nothing like growing your own. I swap fresh veg for eggs and jars of pickles etc. Good deal

 

[AtomRat]

I spent a bit of this year playing with some things out in the garden.. made my own compost / mulch using the garden mulcher and turn8ng it over several months. Its now rich with worms, warm and fluffy. I also sewed a wheat which a bird deposited in my gutter via stool and 50 of the seeds are at 20cm height and growing strong now. Next year ill be planting them later in the year, lucky its grass and hardy though so its survived well. The maths seems that 1 plant = 50 seedlings so next year I will have a mini crop of roughly 500 and then to 5000 or more expanding it to my mothers farm and still only just for fun and learning self sustained living when I can.

I have a hell of a lot of work to do in the garden though. It had been left idle for a year and has overgrown into a jungle and wandering dew has overtaken a lot of the ground surface from the damp back garden. Any tips on removing large amounts of this horrid weed is muchly appreciated. I'm on 1/4 acre.. half of it now weed..

 

[Zorgs]

Last couple of years put in black russian, tigerella, tommy toe. Not sure what to do this year I reckon I'm probably out of seeds.

Put chickens in last year for eggs and fertiliser, been planting some fruit trees as well.

How do the rest of you guys go with early/late blights wilt etc? Esp other Adelaide people that cop the hot weather.

 

[silver]

We've just built a new compost box in the chook pen(next to the macadamia nut tree) and all the scraps from the kitchen are going into the compost box(as well as green waste from the garden),... the chooks hop into the compost bin and eat, $h!te and scratch and turn the compost,... the nut tree will catch all the nutriebts that wash down into the soil and turn it into nuts for us,... and eventually we should harvest some nice rich compost for the vegge garden.

 

[AngerManagement]

I can only plant things that the friggin possums refuse to eat...

And that is not much.

And if they do not like the end product they usually love the plant...

I can see that my Wife will end up marrying her Father... ( Old Sicilian Farmer)

YES... The whole yard will be covered in NETS...

 

[silver]

I have to net the chocolate pudding tree tomorrow as the fruit bats are already showing an interest in that tree.

 

[Sandta]

I have to net the chocolate pudding tree tomorrow as the fruit bats are already showing an interest in that tree.

Oh wow ... Thats a real tree
I was thinking you had made a cake and the kids were hovering before it was even cooled down

 

[Tathradj]

This is wonderful for removing weeds.
To 1 litre of vinegar add 1 cup full of salt then 1 table spoon of detergent.
Spray it on with a spray bottle but be warned.
Anything it gets on will kill it.
I had an African Love Grass Tussock to experiment on and it wiped it out within 5 days.
Totally natural and deadly on weeds.

 

[Hotrob]

I'm hearing ya Goldtruck....... one of my favourite things is going down to the veggie patch on a hot arvo/evening & watering my tomatos with an ice cold beer in hand. ......the smell as the water hits the tommies is magic.
I grow from seedlings & its still six weeks too early to even think about planting yet. We had a good crop last year..... took 22 kilos in one pick..... 18 kilos in another & 10 kilos from the last pick at the end of April. Come on summer.
Rob.

 

[silver]

I have to net the chocolate pudding tree tomorrow as the fruit bats are already showing an interest in that tree.

Oh wow ... Thats a real tree
I was thinking you had made a cake and the kids were hovering before it was even cooled down

Like Vultures on old road kill,....it's who will get the biggest piece.
But yeah(ha), real tree.

 

[goldtruck59]

I'm hearing ya Goldtruck....... one of my favourite things is going down to the veggie patch on a hot arvo/evening & watering my tomatos with an ice cold beer in hand. ......the smell as the water hits the tommies is magic.
I grow from seedlings & its still six weeks too early to even think about planting yet. We had a good crop last year..... took 22 kilos in one pick..... 18 kilos in another & 10 kilos from the last pick at the end of April. Come on summer.
Rob.

Spot on Hotrob,

Its a bloody pleasure the old tomatoes.
I got my seeds from an Italian barber who got them from his dad and his dad and etc. Fairdinkum they are 6" across on a good year and give you amazing taste.
**** Im mouth watering now.
Couple of tips he taught me are
1. Always take the seeds from the lowest large tomato
2. Never water the foliage just the ground
3 Feed them wit seasol every two weeks once starting to fruit
4. Plant the seeds in the hot house in early august and raise to seedlings gradually exposing them to the climate and then plant out in the garden after the melb cup
5. Give them a good drink every other day in summer
6. shade them if possible on that run of 40 degree plus days we have each year for a week or so.
7. Dig in heaps of cow *****, blood and bone and etc now into the beds as you turn the soil.
8. Tomato dust is your friend

This picture was a days picking last season YUMMO

 

[Magilla]

I should have flowers on my plants in a week or two, one of the advantages of living on the nth coast. Only growing cherry tomatoes this year, great in salads and lightly sauteed with bacon and eggs.

 

[bushpig]

I'm going to have to track down the pics of my old hydo set up now and before anyone asks yes they are tomato plants!

 

[JeffP]

I am sick of the Fruit Fly getting mine !! Any remedies ?

 

[bushpig]