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Hope you can get at least 1 Bear Claw tomato 🤞

My Sunrise Jazz is yellow

My Australian Giants were under 1lb also, my only huge tomatoes are Gigante Farina and Domingo

Gosh - I never got any Tart vibe from Ananas Noire. Over many years.. Mine have more rainbow or red in them tho.

Malachite is my fave Green but haven' tried Abraham. Green Giant Dwarf grew to 8' plus and I didn't care for it. How would you compare Abraham green to Malachite? Wow - My Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (Baker Creek) is Tart as hell for me. Super tart. I won't grow them again unless I believe Baker's seeds are 'off'.

Always enjoy Craig's talk. Really appreciate all the work he has done for the dwarf tomato project. Really fills a need for urban gardeners.

Wow, what a wealth of information. I watched live, but didn't see or hear who won some of Craig's tomato seeds. Must have been after the live stream, nonetheless you 'guys' are super for having nctomato man on. .

Looks good! My plants are all crunchy!

How does it actually work? If I'm looking for certain seeds or just generally want to look around for what people have... then what? How do i find them and how do we swap?

It was a great party!

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It’s pretty though

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Your dress is so fun! You are so naturally beautiful.

I can't wait for your taste test videos! I'll be watching with pen and paper taking notes.

Finally getting decent rains in NC and having slicers ripening yay! Hope rain finds where you live too 💕 fingers crossed Bear Claw stays strong and hope it's tasty for ya too 🍅🍅🍅

Commenting early before I finish watching. Just wanted to say it’s just a hotter than usual and I finally got my shade cloth up so I may actually get peppers in south Florida. Since I don’t have winters like you I just keep stuff alive so that it will be well established by the time it starts to get cooler

With regards to the whole definition of heirloom and the fifty years mark... Seems arbitrarily idiotic. If I create a new tomato, cultivate for a few years to make it stable then put it in a freezer for 45 years. Then someone grows it... Then it's an heirloom? Why... Because it's been over fifty years? Seems too simplistic. An heirloom for me is any tomato that is unique, stable, and preferably carries a story or otherwise that was grown by the same family or region. I'm not feeling overly petty about an X amount of years. Inheritance seems more important to me.

They should be orange when you eat them those just weren't ripe I think

Yum yum !!!

Nice size

They look just like my sugar bombs. Are they sweet?

Did they have orange stripes before they got fully ripe?

I actually got to have these this summer! Yum!

Like your ties, you notice things you didn’t think to try. Lordy, seems like take forever to ripen. Put a Berkeley tye dye in a container, seems the suckers weren’t removed, could be interesting. I wouldn’t have questioned it before you and Lauren schooled me. So hard to consider removing those…all same height, Idk.

Little Red Corvette has been my best producer for me this summer

Juicy and seedy

Great video ❤❤❤ like + ❤❤❤❤

Wow!

God’s goodness seen in creation. ❤

Hi Jen, I just wanted to let you know we are dealing with extreme record breaking heat here in the Mile High City of Denver, Co. Yesterday, the temps broke a record set back in the late 1870's at 103. Imagine that heat and being 1 mile closer to the sun. It is already a challenge to grow here because of the altitude, cooler nights, short growing season, all combined with the arid conditions of the great plains. Having an extended heat wave that started with the 2nd hottest June on record, and a very hot heatwave in July, is kicking the physical butt of my garden and my emotional butt. I remember in June, telling my husband the heat was a searing, almost a radiated heat that I didn't ever remember feeling before. It just penetrated the body and skin. It was overwhelming! I am a lot older that you and truly never felt heat that felt like that before when in the sun. I have lived in L.A. Calif., Las Vegas, NV., Chicago, Il, and Denver, Co. I know the feeling of different climates, altitudes, and humidity,. The way the sun/heat felt in June was nothing like I had ever felt before. Last year, my tomato plants yielded over 300lbs as we had a very, VERY unusual rainy spring that lasted until the end of June. I was one happy gardener! Now, I am one massively depressed gardener. I have 24 tomato plants and only a couple are doing o.k. I have maybe 20 tomatoes growing for all of those plants, which for the most part, are the same types I planted last year. I do have a few other varieties that are also struggling. I have had all of my beds covered in shade cloth, they are on a dripline, I have borage drawing in some bees, and I have even been out for 2 hours a day hand pollinating with an electric toothbrush. Nothing is working except the fact the plants are staying alive with the drip irrigation. IT SUCKS! I wanted to cry when I saw your video because I could completely relate. I know the hard work you are talking about and the emotional toll it is taking to deal with something you can't control. I can't even watch most garden haul video's because I want to scream and cry, mostly because it feels so unfair. To make matters worse, lets just say in the next two weeks after the heatwave the temps. drop and the tomatoes start producing, again, we will be praying that we don't get that first snow sometime in Sept. while whatever fruit we get is trying to size up and ripen (we will be really praying)! I guess the good news is I planted every extra pepper plant I had because usually our yields usually suck and I thought maybe I would get a few extra peppers out of the deal. They are all doing o.k. as long as they are covered too. Our squash and cucumbers are dragging along, but I am hopeful they will produce decently. We are just now starting to see a few flowers on them. Maybe it will be a good squash and cucumber year. :) That being said, I am fearful this will become more of a norm for gardeners, and while currently spotty in areas of our country, maybe not so much in the not to far off future. I will keep my fingers crossed for rain to roll your way, reviving your lovely garden(s)! We all know the hard work and love that has gone into your garden and appreciate all you do for us. Anyhow, I just wanted you and anyone else that is having a rough growing season to know you are not alone. 🥰Catherine

Fun!

Sorry your garden is struggling, friend. I’ve been in a funk too. It was 105+ degrees last week. Luckily, I have drip irrigation, but we’ve only had maybe 8 days since I planted my tomatoes with temps under 90°. Not much fruit set and the heat also delays ripening of the little bit of fruit I have. Several new insect pests popping up too. All we can do is try every year, hope Mother Nature cooperates and learn from what we encounter. Doing a rain dance for you!

I didn’t get anything when I ordered from matts peppers. 🫤🥺

How'd that sharpie taste big Fella 🤣

I'm excited to see a tomato tasting!❤🤤😋🍅

Very nice! I’m nearly ready to give up this year. The dang birds have stolen a lot of markers so I don’t know what stuff is some of the important stuff. I do a lot of the other stuff I have no clue! The stink bugs are making a run at everything that is about to ripen. The stars of my garden so far this year are the beans beans are growing like weeds.!❤

My Lemon Ice is heartshaped too

Things are looking great 👍

What are you using to tie your maters to the trellis?

You should get one of those sprinklers that go back and forth to water the big area. It works for me.

I have spring water but was always depending on rain to water the garden. A couple years ago, I realized I needed to, not only water but, water the garden often!

Hello my friend how are you? Nice sharing my friend ❤❤❤

Wouldn't surprise me if you started seeing the ground hog everyday

humidity feels like 40c = 104f in Nova scotia Canada currently (7/13/24) till atleast next wed

get you some kaolin clay for the cucumber beetles. I used it this year for the first time and I actually am getting cucumbers. And only water with air warm water, never use cold water to water cucaburts

I love your content. I think you are awesome from up here in Canada 🇨🇦 😀! You have been the main reason that i started 200 tomato varieties this year. Honestly, i really can't help but say thank you! P. S. The solution to your dry beds is 4" of quality clay in the bottom of your beds. Then a 5-10 % clay mix in your regular soil. Blue or grey clay works great 👍

those flowers are straw flowers

Been dealing with the hellish heat and drought too in NC! I will say though all my dwarves are so tough n I'm for sure gonna grow even more dwarf varieties next year ! Definitely recommend the variety Rumplestilksin! It has been productive, resilient and tasty along with it being super pretty too.

I hope your heatwave and drought end soon!