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May 15th, 2009 at 2:00pm
 
I've got TOMATOES!!!! Yep, this morning we have tomatoes on our topsy turvy vines. A BUNCH of them... Looks like in a week or so we're gonna be EATING tomatoes!!!! Wow that was fast (of course I've been talking to them real sternly every day... Smiley and explaining what's "expected" of them.

But I guess those topsy turvy things DO work. IT's only been a month or so since we planted them and we've already got tomatoes. I'm just so excited!!! (course at my age it doesn't take much to excite me!)

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Reply #1 - May 15th, 2009 at 2:08pm
 
I'm so jealous!!!!!  

I don't even try to have tomatoes any more.   I got tired of feeding the squirrels.   They would take one bite and then leave the darn things on the ground!

I have to get my home grown tomatoes from the Farmer's Market.

Enjoy!

Jeannie

ETA:  What kind of tomatoes are they?  Beef Eater, Big  Boy?  Can you buy different varieties in the Topsy Turvy plants?
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Reply #2 - May 15th, 2009 at 3:09pm
 
Christy sez without pics you ain't got sh%$!!!!  But wait....there's more!!! C'mon, we wanna see!!!

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Reply #3 - May 15th, 2009 at 6:14pm
 
Jeannie,

Go to a Barber Shop or a Beauty Salon and get a bag of hair.  Sprinkle it around your plants periodically and you should have no probs.

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Reply #4 - May 15th, 2009 at 6:26pm
 
Jeannie wrote on May 15th, 2009 at 2:08pm:
ETA:  What kind of tomatoes are they?  Beef Eater, Big  Boy?  Can you buy different varieties in the Topsy Turvy plants?

"Topsy Turvy" is a method for growing. It means they grow upside down, with the root ball and soil in a bucket above the vines. You hang the whole thing, keeping the fruit from touching the ground.
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Reply #5 - May 15th, 2009 at 7:15pm
 
I see,  So you can grow any type of tomato that way.   

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Reply #6 - May 15th, 2009 at 9:39pm
 
At harvest time, I would recommend an Upsidedown Tomato Sandwich.

Toast, mayo, pepper and thin sliced tomatos. Don't forget to smash it a little. And, when you are about to take the first bite, turn it over.

Let us know how it goes.

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Reply #7 - May 15th, 2009 at 9:44pm
 
stevegeebe wrote on May 15th, 2009 at 9:39pm:
And, when you are about to take the first bite, turn it over.

Why?
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Reply #8 - May 16th, 2009 at 6:44am
 
Jeanie - we planted Beef Eaters - the big juicy ones... I can already taste them.  They just grow out the bottom of the hanging pot. You can hang the pot anywhere.

And Steve LMAO - now that's funny.  I think I'll put it in my next cookbook - Topsy Turvy Tomato Sandwich -  Smiley 

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Reply #9 - May 16th, 2009 at 6:53am
 
Nevermind, Steve. I get it now. Nicely done.
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Reply #10 - May 16th, 2009 at 7:49am
 
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Toast, mayo, pepper and thin sliced tomatos


Steve,

This is one of my favourite sarnies ever!! I like a little salt in mine too. I think I'll be having one for lunch now. Thanks!!

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Reply #11 - May 16th, 2009 at 9:32am
 
Does anyone ever simply stand over the sink with a huge, vine-ripened tomato in one hand, salt shaker in the other, and sleeves rolled up so as to allow the juice to drip off the elbow?

That's my most favoritst way.
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Reply #12 - May 16th, 2009 at 1:51pm
 
Brew wrote on May 16th, 2009 at 9:32am:
Does anyone ever simply stand over the sink with a huge, vine-ripened tomato in one hand, salt shaker in the other, and sleeves rolled up so as to allow the juice to drip off the elbow?

That's my most favoritst way.


Throw in a cold beer and that'll be my "last meal" request. Grin

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Reply #13 - May 16th, 2009 at 2:53pm
 
Guiseppi wrote on May 16th, 2009 at 1:51pm:
Brew wrote on May 16th, 2009 at 9:32am:
Does anyone ever simply stand over the sink with a huge, vine-ripened tomato in one hand, salt shaker in the other, and sleeves rolled up so as to allow the juice to drip off the elbow?

That's my most favoritst way.


Throw in a cold beer and that'll be my "last meal" request. Grin

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To each his own, but I thought they came with their own juice. Wink
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Reply #14 - May 16th, 2009 at 9:33pm
 
Brew wrote on May 16th, 2009 at 9:32am:
Does anyone ever simply stand over the sink with a huge, vine-ripened tomato in one hand, salt shaker in the other, and sleeves rolled up so as to allow the juice to drip off the elbow?

That's my most favoritst way.


Well, yeah, but it's a LONG walk back inside...vine ripened, sun warmed, rub the dust and bird poop off on your shirt...salt shaker in hand right in the garden....oh my....
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Reply #15 - May 17th, 2009 at 4:03pm
 
Why wait til they get red? Fried Green Tomatoes were my big discovery of last year and I adore them - ooooh I could so eat some right now!
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Reply #16 - May 17th, 2009 at 4:26pm
 
BarbaraD wrote on May 15th, 2009 at 2:00pm:
I've got TOMATOES!!!!


HARRUMPH!!!

I don't believe it ...

This thread is TOTALLY worthless, and unprovable without pictures ...

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Reply #17 - May 18th, 2009 at 6:34am
 
My project for this year is to learn to UPLOAD pics... Got the camera just don't know how to do the uploads -- I'm OLD....(you old goat!!)

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