Beefsteak Tomatoes growth update

As with the Roma bed, the Beefsteak bed is overgrown and not producing well because of the mature trees that surround my yard. Hopefully my plan for next year will increase the yield. If it doesn't I may give up on tomatoes.



Here's a closeup of the one and only beefsteak tomato growing so far:

Beefsteak Tomatoes growth update

After the risk of frost nights, the beefsteak plants didn't look too good. I am hoping that they will recover.

tomatoes growth update

It has been a considerable amount of time since last I posted. The photos taken were on May 5th, though I am posting them on the night of May 16th, I've back dated the post to better represent the timing of the images.

The plants had overgrown the greenhouse and so I put them outside one morning. Here they are:


There ended up being thunderstorms on that very day with some wind gusts that the plants were not terribly pleased about, as evidenced in the following two photos:




Fortunately, the plants did not break when they fell over, they merely bent. When I planted the plants, the point of the 'bend' in the main stalk of the plant ended up being about four inches below the surface as I buried the plants quite significantly when I put them in my raised bed. The following four photos show them in place:

tomatoes growth update

The tomato plants started to outgrow their paper pots. Of one type, one out of the six has died, so here are the five others in their 750g yogurt containers. To the right, separated from the others is the first of the second type in its new container.



Here you can see the five remaining of the second type that need to have their container size upgraded. I ran out of potting soil.



Here is the dead one of the first type.

tomatoes growth update

I took the tomatoes outside for the photo. Again I don't recall which is which, but they are grouped together, so when I plant them, the like ones will be planted with the like ones and I'll know which is which once they start producing fruit.

tomatoes growth update

I don't remember quite which is which, but these are the two types of tomatoes I planted.

Beefsteak Tomatoes sprout

Sorry for the blurriness, my camera's flash isn't the only problem any longer - now it doesn't take pictures at all. This I took with my son's very simple 5MP Photosmart E327. I guess I need to be more still when using his camera.

First seeds planted

The left three are the Dwarf Sun Flowers, the middle six are the Roma Tomatoes, the right six are the Beefsteak Tomatoes. The image is a little dark because the flash on my camera wasn't working.