roma tomato growth update

In previous photos I showed a few roma's, here are the only two currently growing.



I am rethinking where I will plant the tomatoes for next year. Probably put the garlic against the hedge and put the tomatoes further from the hedge.

roma tomato growth update

The tomatoes are not doing well at all. There are large mature trees that keep growing every year which now put too much shade on this side of these beds. Next year I'm going to switch it up a bit. It doesn't help, of course, that I've let them become overgrown with weeds and the flowers that grow from behind.



Here's a closeup of the two romas, there is a third behind them that is the same size and shape.



Here's a closeup of the other one that has actually started to change colour a little bit.

roma tomato growth update

A buddy of mine was able to differentiate between which was which, so now I know which are the Roma tomatoes and which are the Beefsteak. We had a risk of frost two nights in a row last week after I had planted them outdoors and I had to over them. The Roma plants seemed to survive this ordeal okay.

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.

Roma Tomatoes have sprouted

Yes, the Roma's have now sprouted, so everything that I started from seed are now out from behind the fridge and down in the small indoor green house. I'll take a photo of the green house for my next post.

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.