Our First Tomato
 

Here are some pictures of the first beefsteak tomatoes we have attempted to grow in New Mexico... And, our fist harvested fruit!

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Nice pictures Luke......I walked to my garden this morn and was eating serrano chilis and maters fresh off the vine, nothin better.
You should be able to grow some great chilis where your at as well

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I started mine in march and they are growing slowwwwww. they still have flowers on em. I only have like 3 baby green tomatoes. I dont think im going to harvest any before winter.

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Congratulations. Nice tomatoes. I love fresh tomatoes off the vine. So good. Yum.

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Nice tomatoes, nice photos. Congratulations!

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Good for you Luke. Looks like you'll be rolling in maters soon!

Here's today's picking. Few types tomatoes (planted way too many, eating them morning noon and night), some cukes, zucchini, peppers- broccoli and chard in the fridge. Will cut some eggplant tomorrow and pull some more beets.
That'll probably be the last of the zuchhini for us.
Hope I did this right, first time I ever tried posting a pic.

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I got plenty of really nice okra (ate some tonight, cooked with some of my tomatoes), and lots of jalepenos and cayenne peppers. My serano peppers and bell peppers never really took off. I got two bell peppers total. My cucumbers flowered and vined like crazy but never produced fruit. My eggplant and pole beans were planted really late, and the heat got to them. My tomatoes were all very tiny, ranging in size from the diameter of a nickel up to a quarter. No big ones, but I got a lot of tiny ones and they were very tasty, and they are still producing (barely).

The failures don't discourage me. They just make me want to try again.

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Doesn't look good for the tomatoes here in Michigan, too cool this year hasn't even came close to 90. Where is that warming when you need it?

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Lots of tomatoes, lettuce, cukes, and squash, here. Potatoes ready, too. Beans and peas already harvested and 2nd planting of melons in where they were.

I'm surprised I was harvesting here in Chicago before you are in New Mexico. Seems odd.

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How can you tell if an eggplant is ready to harvest? Mine have stayed the same size for weeks and I occasionally cut one open and it it remains green inside.