r/tomatoes

Did this set the other day on a client and thought I’d share with the tomato community! 🍅

Costco baguette, Kewpie mayo, and this year’s harvest of Big Rainbow and Black Krim tomatoes. Finished with pink sea salt, black pepper, and olive oil.* *chef’s kiss

Arranged on top of cream cheese and sourdough! Also my new Reddit profile picture :) I sourced these for a tomato-obsessed shoot. Basic, but fun looking!

What a beauty,,, taste test tomorrow….

Had to run outside to pick them when the slight drizzle became a torrential downpour. Would have been a waste if these beauties got all cracked by time the storm passed. Was hoping to leave them on the vine to ripen for another week but Mother Nature had her own plans. They’ll ripen more on the counter for a week instead. First two are Mushroom Basket. The second two are Large Barred Boar. The medium sized one in the bowl with the cherries and grapes was supposed to be Black Krim but very disappointingly is not (queue tomato-gate)

Wanted to share this huge tomato harvest I gathered up from my garden this morning!

Green hard flesh on ripe San Marzano tomatoes. This is the only tomato on this bed. I planted garlic last Fall in this bed. The garlic cloves I planted had brownish dots and I planted them anyway. Come spring very few sprouted. Did I introduce disease?
If not what could this be? They don’t seem to be edible.

I let the plant go a bit too crazy vegging out and now I have a lot but very small tomatoes on it

The wait has been long and excruciating but we‘re finally harvesting, yay!!

More varieties still to come 🍅

Pictured:
- Fleur de Reagir (the fairest of them all)
- Sonnenherz
- Striped Roman
- Old yellow Candystripe
… forgot to check the rest

I'll end up with at least 4 harvests like this this year, crazy weather hear in Europe. If you cut me I will already bleed tomato sauce, and I'm just not sure I have room in my little spare freezer to keep all of this, but luxury problems I know!

I’ve been waiting for these for nearly 7 months - from seed to germination - I had 100 that sprouted and 70 that made it outside, then we had a freeze after they finally made it outside. Not as much fruit as I expected (yet) but very thrilled

It's my first time entering the county fair, and I've been looking forward to it all year. Exhibition drop off day is tomorrow, and I need help choosing my champions! I can only enter three varieties in the heirloom class.

I'm listing each variety as a separate comment below. Upvote your favorite, and I'll drop off the top three at the fairgrounds tomorrow. It's been a hell of a season, fellow tomato lovers!

From our garden!

1. Today’s harvest.
2. The San Marzanos are coming.
3. The Amish Pastes are not far behind.
4. The Chocolate Cherries and Brad’s Atomic Grapes are keeping on keeping on.
5. The Brandywines have joined the party bigly.
6. Other slicers include more Black Krims and Green Zebras, the first Big Rainbow of the season, and my first-ever Pork Chops.

We started over 45 heirloom tomatoes this year but we started them late for my zone which is 10b Los Angeles

Some of the varieties haven’t even started to blush yet. We have them under 55% shade cloth and they are still pumping out Flowers like crazy so it looks like we will have tomatoes until Christmas!

I’m new here and could use some help! This is my first time growing tomatoes.
I started with 2 plants, but we had some really heavy rain and it broke plant #2. This one had some complications too, but I helped fix it and luckily it started to fix itself after that.

I started this tomato plant in mid July and this is where I’m at now. I feel like I probably need to prune it, but I honestly have no idea where to start. I already cut off the bottom stems that were touching the soil. I also have some stems near the top of the main stem that are kind of hanging down toward the soil.

I know I also need a tomato cage and I’m working on getting one.

Any advice on what I should be doing with it from here? Should I prune it, and if so, where? Any tips would be really appreciated!

So happy with this year choice