Problems growing tomatoes

[asly]

Devany, what are pineapple tomatoes?

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[Devany]

They are a yellow striped low acid large tomato, about the size of a beef steak. You can order them from seedsavers.

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devany

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[d96778]

Pineapple tomatoes are also an heirloom variety, and their seeds will plant true. They're one of my very favorites....old fashioned flavor....Yummy!

Dee

[MarkP]

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And of course, the volunteer cherries are effortless.

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I have heard that before. Why is that? Fruit flis don't like them?

[Dinamight]

Thank you everyone for all the great advice.

Some of the seeds I started myself are beginning to look like tomato plants and I bought 2 very healthy looking tomato starts from Paradise Plants - 2 varieties to see which works best. I will follow all your advice and definitely use containers.

I wonder, where can I get free packing peanuts, or can I buy them locally?

[Sean]

We grew a few types of tomato plants and the cherry tomatoes took off with no problems at all. They were outside in the ground and all we did was build a trellis and put large mesh netting to keep the birds off. Zero problems with bugs or mildew. Probably just lucky. We had a yellow tomato shaped like a pear and those tended to split. The taste was fine, but the texture was off.

We used 3/8" black cinder soil from Sanford with a hole scooped out and mixed in supersoil with the cinder soil. The fertilizer was CTAHR and dolomite. A friends father was a soil scientist with UH and he developed the CTAHR fertilizer specifically for the mineral deficient soils typically mixed with the cinder for the cinder soil. Our next batch of tomatoes will be inside a greenhouse similar to what Dick Wilson has above, but with the cherry tomatoes still outside.

Good luck,

Sean

[Liz]

You might try posting a request on Freecycle... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreecycleBigIsland/


aloha, Liz

"The best things in life aren't things."

[asly]

Hi MarkP, I asked this same question about the cherry tomatoes on another thread, some of the response I've gotten was that they grow so fast and had a little tougher skin, and ripen really quick that the bugs seemed to be less, or maybe don't find them yet. Ummm, having said that, I now remember I was asking why the wasps tend to not be interested in these tomatoes.

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