Tomatoes and Peppers: Spring Field Notes

possibly the warmest last week of may I can remember in southern MB

the usual is some risk of frost into early june, this year well - I'll say it - 100% safe this time to plant the tomatoes zero...

lucid gem

just enjoying these modern bicolor tomatoes. this batch i've posted is the results from single truss tomatoes grown under lights jan 30-may 20 so about 3.5 months from start to a finished ripe fruit. the experiment was...

ripe tomatoes, plants seeded 90 days ago and grown with a single truss training system

proving to be a good way to quickly grow out and evaluate tomato varieties. this...

single truss tomatoes ripening

this is probably the best experience I've had growing tomatoes indoors, a few things had to click for it to work. small pot sizes, bottom watering, a specific pruning method (leave only 2 leaves above the truss), and...

single truss tomatoes on 65 days

looks like 3-4 per 1020 tray is good spacing, a bamboo pole makes things much tidier. and actually picking them up to move things around makes it easy to keep up on pruning. I like it, a complete tomato crop start to...

single truss tomato experiment, I'm trying a small isolated batch of tomatoes indoors ahead of the season

with this method you trim above the very first truss of flowers leaving 1-2 leaves, so the plants stay small, dense and produce a few fruit. reminds me of the sea of green method. in a couple weeks i'll start our plants...

tomatoes flowering at about 30-35 days

trying some single truss plants, a style of indoor growing where the plants are topped above that first truss of fruit. our regular tomato plants will get started in about a month, since we can get...

potting up tomatoes and peppers this morning

trying a few different variables this year. larger square pots, started about 6-7 weeks before plant out. over plant in cell packs, transplant, wait to thin for biggest ones. think I have a hundred this...

time to move tomatoes into the greenhouse

our last frost can be early june, so being cautious. had tomatoes wiped out too many times by a late frost in june. these are planned at around 6-8 weeks old for transplant around june 10. I have 100 between tomato and...

when growing tomatoes is it ok to keep 2 seedlings in one pot

planning to train as 2 stems up a string or stake. I’m growing to save seed and just want to be able to select the fruit that’s most true to...

when you plant tomato seeds that you know are three years old, and they germinate before all the other seeds you ordered

make you wonder how old those seeds were. 100% of the tomato seeds I have on my shop are from 2023, what’s industry best practice just germ test and keep a secret seed lot number with them? that little green cluster at...

germination testing tomato seeds, hazel mae tomato at 3 days showing 100% germ

greenhouse stayed warm this morning, I have a small GAT system circulating air through the ground, it was 2C at 8am

and the greenhouse stayed at 8C. which is good because all tomatoes are in there.. heating a greenhouse without an actual heater is tricky, and even though I built it into a hillside and lined it with water barrels...

trying something new with tomatoes this year, going to keep them topped low in pots for 12 weeks

We get from about Jun 7 - Sep 7 frost free here, some years a couple more weeks - and usually I’m out in sept picking all the tomatoes green. Hoping to start with larger plants and pick more through august. Trying about...