Look how big my green tomatoes are getting! These are still from the first flush on the Giant Syrian plant. Too bad only 1 out of 25 flowers are turning into green tomatoes now. They don’t like to set fruit when the weather is this hot.
Soon these will be ripe and I’ll be able to can up some salsa!
Posted by Leslie@vigorfamily.com on July 6, 2012 at 9:37 am
They will make great sauce!
Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn on July 6, 2012 at 9:42 am
It is spelled Salsa, not Sauce.
Posted by healingmagichands on July 6, 2012 at 10:01 am
My tomatoes are sitting around being green too. I wonder if the plants also don’t like to ripen at hot temps; I know they don’t like to set fruit. It has been really way too hot here for over a week.
Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn on July 6, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Today it is 106 in the shade, and over 120 in the sun. Brutal. I can’t keep the new cucumber plants from wilting and there is zero hope for starting new seeds until this breaks.
Posted by healingmagichands on July 6, 2012 at 9:35 pm
We had similar conditions. We were teased by scattered rain in the area, none here though. I am in despair.
Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn on July 7, 2012 at 10:23 am
Just keep your fingers crossed.
Posted by cressinghamgardeners on July 6, 2012 at 12:34 pm
We had huge tomatoes last summer, but they never ripened in our English summer, and then we got blight, and had to put the plants in the dustbin.
Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn on July 6, 2012 at 3:10 pm
That would be very frustrating. Have you tried pickled green tomatoes?
Posted by Skip Slone on July 6, 2012 at 8:20 pm
I don’t believe I’m even getting one in 25. I probably won’t get very many setting until September, actually. Enjoy!!
Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn on July 7, 2012 at 10:21 am
It’s enough work just to keep the plant alive at this point.
Posted by Karen on July 11, 2012 at 12:47 pm
You have been having brutal weather but your tomatoes look good. I don’t have many tomatoes on my plants. The blossoms weren’t setting because it was to cool (40′s) in the evenings and mornings here in Maine. Hopefully some will start setting now or I won’t’ have ripe tomatoes by the time we get our early frosts.
Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn on July 11, 2012 at 12:58 pm
I can’t even imagine fighting cold nighttime lows late in June or early in July! Gardening is such a struggle some times I am surprised at how well the grocery stores can stay stocked up.
Posted by Karen on July 11, 2012 at 1:05 pm
I totally agree Jimmy. It will be interesting to see what happens in the produce departments this year with such bad growing conditions everywhere. I’m sure prices will go higher.
Posted by Linnae on July 11, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Beautiful!!! I am soooo jealous!
Posted by Jimmy Cracked-Corn on July 13, 2012 at 8:17 am
They were loving the sunny spot they were in until we didn’t get any rain. Now they are surviving on tap water until the good stuff falls again.