The Endzone Garden Thread

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#804
Look at all your land! I am jealous!

Whatā€™s the tomato in the second pic? Some type of oxheart? It has that point on the blossom end.
 
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#808
I used concrete mesh to make these tomato cages. You can reach thru the holes to get a tomato or a tomato worm. However, the tomato vines really like to grow thru the holes and not towards the top.
 
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MWR said:
I used concrete mesh to make these tomato cages. You can reach thru the holes to get a tomato or a tomato worm. However, the tomato vines really like to grow thru the holes and not towards the top.
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I gave up on cages for the bush tomatoes and staked them. I was a lot happier with how they turned out.

The vining tomatoes were staked this year, but next year in their new bed, theyā€™ll be trellised and pruned to only three stems each. By golly.
 
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Sigh. @joevol33, this is all your fault! There are tomatoes on the vines, but no flowers:

The optimum daytime growing temperature range for tomatoes is between 70 and 85 F. Several days of nighttime temperatures above 70 F and or daytime temperatures above 85 F will cause the plants to abort flowers. Under these temperatures the pollen becomes tacky and nonviable, preventing proper pollination from taking place. When this happens, the flowers dry up and fall off. When temperatures get this high the best thing a gardener can do is keep the plants irrigated and wait for more favorable growing temperatures to arrive.
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Why Did My Tomatoes Stop Producing Fruit?
 
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#818
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Could just convert to varieties that set fruit on into the upper 90's.
 
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GVF said:
Could just convert to varieties that set fruit on into the upper 90's.
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True, although my time machine is in the shop. šŸ¤Ŗ

The recent stretch of high 80ā€™s-90ā€™s is very unusual for Asheville, even though it was expected to be higher than the good old days, 4-5 years ago.

Looks like temps will be getting back to normal soon, allowing the tomatoes to flower again. Dat rain tho. ā˜”ļø

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VolNExile said:
True, although my time machine is in the shop. šŸ¤Ŗ

The recent stretch of high 80ā€™s-90ā€™s is very unusual for Asheville, even though it was expected to be higher than the good old days, 4-5 years ago.

Looks like temps will be getting back to normal soon, allowing the tomatoes to flower again. Dat rain tho. ā˜”ļø

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Used to be in Black Mountain a week every June. Had some cool years. Had some hot years. The pool never felt like it got above 40.
 
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GVF said:
Used to be in Black Mountain a week every June. Had some cool years. Had some hot years. The pool never felt like it got above 40.
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June is still great, although warmer. July and August have gotten pretty brutal the last few years.

Every time I go to the garden centers or farmers market, all anyone talks about is the hotter, wetter weather and the new batch of diseases weā€™re seeing. Weā€™re all drowning in cucumbers and just starting to see tomatoes ripening. Makes it hard to plan.

So essentially, we can plant two weeks earlier but wait longer for harvest, which makes no sense.

USDA reclassified us from 6b to 7a.
 
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