Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 45 Entries. Sunday, March 1 View Page Should be easier for the Canadian growers. Our gallons are bigger � Monday, March 9 View Page Winter grow is over for me. Very humbling experience! This is my best out of 3 tomatoes. 4.2 ozs. or .26 lbs. When I started this I set my goal at making sure I had a tomato to weigh......guess I should have set it higher lol � Monday, March 9 View Page The most important thing I learned from this competition.......don't take off the rest of the tomatoes. they taste great. As long as you slice them thin � Saturday, March 14 View Page All set in case they quarantine us for 2 weeks. 140 beers and 6 rolls of toilet paper. Maybe I should get more beers. � Sunday, March 29 View Page Got my new watering system finished � Saturday, May 9 View Page Started some of my tomatoes on Tuesday. Pic was too big to download until I read Rebels post. Thanks Rick � Saturday, May 16 View Page Second round tomatoes. 36 of 40 on the first round. Having trouble getting the Big Wixoms to go. Got a little advice from Porkchop. I'm going to put these under the light above my fridge. About 5� warmer up there. (80�F) � Wednesday, May 20 View Page Anybody ever seen this before � Thursday, May 21 View Page My throw back pic. This is "Hair-ee" grown in 2008 � Thursday, May 21 View Page Another pic of the 4 cot leaf tomato � Tuesday, May 26 View Page My Easter egg plants are looking good since they went outside � Tuesday, May 26 View Page Eggs are hard to see because they're under the leaves. There's a dosen eggs on this plant � Saturday, June 6 View Page Planting day. Ready to go � Saturday, June 6 View Page First starts are ready to go. Ended up with one of Wixom's 6.23 and one of Porkchop's 9.65. No Big Wixom's. Sorry Chris � Sunday, June 7 View Page Half the eggs on the Easter egg plant are changing color already. They're all different sizes with the biggest not quite the size of a real chicken egg. � Thursday, June 11 View Page Now that we're going to stage 2 of re-opening in Ontario some of the day care is open again. What a relief! � Thursday, June 11 View Page And my favorite hunting spot too. Orange hat....safety first! � Saturday, June 20 View Page Update on Easter egg plants. Both potted plants have 18 eggs on them. I harvested seeds out of one egg each plant and put 10 of each in paper towel today. This is the oldest plant � Saturday, June 20 View Page This plant is 2 weeks younger. The yellow egg and the biggest white one are the same size as a chicken egg � Sunday, June 28 View Page Tomatoes are all in. 40 in the ground and 5 in buckets. First mega on the 4.9 LaRue. Plants pretty small. Won't prune unless this thing really takes off. � Sunday, June 28 View Page At least 25 eggs on this Easter egg plant. Hard to count all the new ones. � Sunday, July 5 View Page Wasn't sure the whole flower would pollinate. On July 1st one half was still flowered. It looks like it took OK though. � Wednesday, July 29 View Page Don't know if anyone has had this problem before but it was new to me. � Wednesday, July 29 View Page Something chewing the crap out of my plants and tomatoes � Wednesday, July 29 View Page Fortunately for me my buddy and mentor John Butler knew straight away. "you've got a horn worm". Guess what? � Wednesday, July 29 View Page It's nice to have an experienced grower helping. � Wednesday, July 29 View Page Found a couple more. Am I ever glad they were on my eating tomatoes. � Wednesday, July 29 View Page These won't be a problem anymore. � Wednesday, July 29 View Page I'll get the stuff John said to put on the plants to get rid of them tomorrow. � Thursday, July 30 View Page Sorry just messing everybody around a bit. I'm like that sometimes especially when I've had a couple cold ones. Food grade Diatomaceous earth is the product. You can get it pretty much anywhere. � Tuesday, August 11 View Page First tomato this tear off the 4.9 LaRue � Tuesday, August 11 View Page 3.594 lbs. � Tuesday, August 11 View Page I really like this one on the 5.23 Lyons. I've got 2 of these growing and the other has had all kinds of tomatoes on it. This was the first flower on this plant. Singing "Sweat Dreams" to this one already. � Friday, August 21 View Page Not sure if this thing will help much with the covid � Friday, August 21 View Page But it sure makes a nice support for my tomato and..... I shouldn't have to worry about my tomato getting a virus! � Friday, August 21 View Page Weighed my second tomato today. Going the wrong direction. 3.57 lbs. � Friday, August 21 View Page 3.57 bottom � Friday, August 28 View Page This pics for Marv. Late mega on the 5.71 Lambchop. Where was this one a few weeks ago lol � Friday, August 28 View Page would have liked to give it a try � Wednesday, September 2 View Page Moving in the right direction now. 4.78 lbs. � Wednesday, September 2 View Page 4.78 bottom pic. Starting to crack. Had to weigh it � Friday, September 11 View Page 4.06 lbs. grown off the 5.21 DeMars � Friday, September 11 View Page 4.63 lbs. grown off the 5.71 Lambchop � Friday, September 11 View Page 4.63 bottom � Saturday, September 12 View Page Pretty small. 5 gallon pail entry �