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Re: “I Am drowning in tomatoes from five plants. ”
I'm not surprised. Romas are incredibly productive plants. The fruit is pretty boring, but you sure will get a lot of them.

Just so you know: There are two types of tomato plants: Determinate and Indeterminate. The Indeterminate plants will just keep growing and producing tomatoes for as long as the weather allows. They can be nine feet tall... maybe more if you put down a trellis that's tall enough to give them the support they need.

Determinate plants produce one batch of tomatoes and then that's it. The plants are much smaller, often just growing three feet high.

So, why would anyone want to plant determinate tomatoes? The main reason is because they produce their tomatoes SOONER. Once they yield, gardeners can rip the plants out and grow a second batch. Also, being small, gardeners can grow them on the little tomato cages stores sell. Those things are useless for indeterminate tomato plants!

The next thing you may wonder is whether your roma tomatoes are determinate or indeterminate. The answer is, they come in both varieties. But it sure sounds like yours are indeterminate. Mine were too! In my case, I'm happy about that and will always grow a few roma plants. The New Hampshire growing season is extremely short, and if I can get roma tomatoes three weeks before any other variety of big tomato, then I'm going to do that. In some years (like 2023), they may be the only variety I can grow that has a chance of yielding anything.

Lest I haven't mentioned it, cherry tomatoes are another variety that yields early. They, however, may as well be considered a different crop. They have different uses and are more like a snack than a real tomato. But if you just want something for your dinner salad, or to munch on while waiting for dinner, they're pretty good. (I know, I know. You hate tomatoes and wouldn't want to snack on them. Some of us don't hate them, though. I think cherry tomatoes are great.)








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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


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By: micro
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Tue, 19 Sep 23 2:39 PM
Msg. 45938 of 60008

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I would be happy to send you a box full of them. I Am drowning in tomatoes from five plants. I took about 15 tomatoes over to my older brother last night.. He only lives about 5 miles from me. He is getting ready for a major kitchen remodeling and has everything there to get started now. I won't be volunteering to help as I am physically a train wreck from being eaten by arthritis in my spine, hips, shoulders, knees. I just keep on moving and do my best to not aggravate the arthritis which is why I hire my grandson to do yardwork like weed-eating around the entire fence line on both sides and other things I cannot do.

But I can help my wife plant tomatoes and flowers. I am considering buying a small roto tiller for our shrub bed areas. Only problem I have is storage so it would have to stay outdoors likely covered up with a tarp. I also do not know if I could even handle it myself. I am afraid if I wrestled with it I would not be able to walk or stand for the back, hip, shoulder pains. SO I think I am basically just SOL.

You have inspired me to try to grow tomato plants which I did and miz micro gives the tomatoes away to her nieces and sisters. I still want to take about a dozen to my next door neighbor who was in high school with my youngest daughter. Small world.. They are nice and good neighbors. The husband has serious medical problems so she has a lot to deal with beside being the medical director at a large medical practice.

If they enjoy tomatoes I suspect they may like a bunch of these because we cannot eat them all and I really don;t eat any except sliced on a burger. Or in a salad.

Got a long day ahead today so got to get going.. Later!


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