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Late Tomatoes
« on: February 06, 2009, 06:12:02 PM »
I got a hankering for a BLT.  I knew I had bread, lettuce and bacon but was unsure if I had a tomato.  None in the fridge....  :(   I had some green tomatoes growing in the garden a month or two back from which I made fried green tomatoes.  Having nothing to lose I checked the tomato bush.....  Bush?  Hah!  I looked up into the top of an arbor, about 9' high, and I saw what I was looking for.... tomatoes growing on a vine...



While in the area I noticed my saucer magnolia in bloom with the parrot's feather covered pond in the background...
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Re: Late Tomatoes
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2009, 07:05:01 PM »
i got a few in Jan, but it is finished now.
Spring is almost here!
Yours look lush!
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Re: Late Tomatoes
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2009, 04:35:08 PM »
Nothing better than home grown tomatoes!  Lucky you still have so many growing.  I picked the last heirloom tomato about 2 weeks ago and the plant has been chopped back.

I bought another cooler weather tomato called "Mortgage Lifter".  It was the only heirloom available at Rodger's Garden.  But why the name?!  I checked its origins out here
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Is that the Saucer Mag you purchased recently at Green Thumbs?  Its a beauty!
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Re: Late Tomatoes
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2009, 10:18:23 PM »
Mortgage lifter was and is a favorite with snall FARMERS. IT DID WELL FOR ME TOO.
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Re: Late Tomatoes
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2009, 05:16:12 PM »
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Is that the Saucer Mag you purchased recently at Green Thumbs?
Yes it is.  Thanks for the tip that it was on sale....  O0
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Re: Late Tomatoes
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2009, 06:11:04 PM »
Whoever heard of tomatoes in FEBRUARY!?   ::)   8)   :'( 
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Re: Late Tomatoes
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2009, 07:09:53 PM »
Tomatoes in February ! That is SO unfair !
They look soo yummy too   :woot:

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Re: Late Tomatoes
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2009, 09:28:20 AM »
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Whoever heard of tomatoes in FEBRUARY!?
  The tomato bush has lots of green growth still and I am tempted to cut it down to the ground and see how it produces in its second year.  Just before Christmas we took the Amtrak Coast Starlight north to Portland.  While traveling through Camarillo (south of Santa Barbara) I was amazed to see workers still picking strawberries. 
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Re: Late Tomatoes
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2009, 10:49:30 PM »
But they are not like summer tomatoes and besides, just a few. Only good for bragging rights.
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