Here was yesterday’s take of Early Girl’s, Big Beef’s and Super Sweet 100’s. We estimate about 4 pounds. Before this we had about 4 pounds of Early Girls and Super Sweet’s. We ordered a digital scale today.
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Hey y’all! Welcome to Lord Got Tomatoes.
We started this thing for a couple of reasons. Primarily it’s for sharing “How To” videos and gardening tips and tricks. We’ve learned a thousand times more from YouTube videos than we ever did in the classroom, and it’s just time to give back to the community. Secondly, we just want to somehow share all this juicy sweet goodness growing in our backyard! Our kids said the other day that “It was just a matter of time before you started showing what you are doing back there.”
Here in north Texas, we have a unique, and some say impossible climate for growing these red wonders. Our summers are scorching hot! When it gets above 90-95 degrees toward the end of June, tomato blooms dry up and drop off. And forget the heat tolerant varieties, they aren’t worth the cost of water for a bunch of foliage and only one or two fruits. It’s just too hot, often double digit days-in-a-row above 100. So the trick is to get the tomatoes in early, by mid-March, so you’re done harvesting by mid-July.
But guess what this unique climate also offers us…a second growing season! A Fall Garden! At the end of this month, we’re going to start another batch of these bad boys to plant at the end of July. They’ll grow strong stalks and height in the dog days of August, but when that cool fall breeze hits early September, they’ll start putting out those pretty yellow blooms and Lord have mercy we’ll have home grown tomatoes on Thanksgiving Day!
Herbs, cantaloupe, and watermelon are all in to grow throughout the summer. We’re going to try some heirloom tomato varieties in the Fall Garden, along with some pole beans, okra, and peppers, and we’ll put in a second batch of corn. We’ll be canning and cooking and starting from seed, so please pull up a chair and make yourself at home.
Wait, did we mention the third growing season? The Winter Garden with salad and collard greens? Stay Tuned.
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