Tomatoes 🍅

[aztropic]

Tomato season has begun in Arizona! Put your seedlings in the ground mid August here, and you should have a crop supplying until mid May. Usually a trouble free plant around here except for the rare occasional year when white flies attack and spread the tomato curly leaf virus. Easy to grow, and the benefits are delicious!

Store bought tomatoes can never compete with the flavor of a home grown, vine ripened tomato. 🤪

 

aztropic 

Mesa, Arizona 

[Ben G.]

Very nice. I need to get started clearing some space and making beds for growing food at my  home. I had a nice established (and well fenced) garden at my old home in Oklahoma. I will need to figure out which tomato varieties will actually do well here in TX and the best times to plant.

Do you have to grow especially heat tolerant tomato varieties? Or do your nights cool off well enough during the growing season to grow most any type of tomato?

[aztropic]

No special varieties... I believe we chose burpee early girl this year although we've grown many others without any trouble. A previous seasons early girl vines ended up 8 ft tall by the end of the season yielding hundreds of tomatoes from just 6 plants.

 

aztropic 

Mesa, Arizona 

[JohnAndSancho]

I'm not a huge fan, but my mom is old skool southern and she'll eat tomato sandwiches. I keep telling myself I need to start a food garden and maybe if I get some tomatoes going I can get her diet to change. I'll just need to get some deer fencing to keep the cats out.