JayBone's 7/8/13 Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes & Jalapenos

[jaybone]

Early Girl, Brandywine, & Roma tomatoes are annual staples in my veggie beds.
Each year I add a new tomato variety to the garden..
This year's addition is one called Mortgage Lifter.
Here's a picture taken 6/25/13;

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• jaybone
• Jul 8, 2013

Today I was fortunate enough to be able to harvest some.
This is a shot of today's tomato harvest with yesterdays jalapeno harvest;

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• jaybone
• Jul 8, 2013

Had one that weighed in at 13 ounces and another at 12 ounces.
Here's the 13 ouncer;

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• jaybone
• Jul 8, 2013

Man, I love the summer garden!

 

[kathrynn]

Huge maters!  Those looks great!

Kat

 

[chef willie]

Sweet......my peppers are doin ok and setting lots of flowers but the tomato is no where near ready to set fruit.

 

[jaybone]

We had a heat wave over the fourth of July week (105 deg F and over everyday for a whole week) that slowed things way down in my garden.
Cucumbers are still alive but show that they're under a lot of stress.
Pepper, Tomato, and Cucumber blossoms dried up and fell off.
Things should start picking up again now that temps have lowered a bit.

 

[smokinhusker]

Nice veggies! My Early Girls are about the size of a qtr...not too good for the weather to be changing in a few weeks!