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djlnc 09-13-2023 10:21 AM

Fall Tomato Plants?
 
I've read that tomatoes can be planted here in September and harvested in a couple months. Anybody have experience with that? And where might plants be sold around here now?
Thanks!

Stu from NYC 09-13-2023 12:25 PM

Interesting but think best off with cherry tomatoes for quicker harvest.

Bogie Shooter 09-13-2023 02:38 PM

Growing fall tomatoes in centra Florida.
Growing Tomatoes in Central Florida

ThirdOfFive 09-13-2023 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djlnc (Post 2256247)
I've read that tomatoes can be planted here in September and harvested in a couple months. Anybody have experience with that? And where might plants be sold around here now?
Thanks!

You can buy set plants at Lowe's Garden Center (I imagine Home Depot as well). They have a good variety of plants.

My "success" with them has been off and on. Do well with springtime planting (harvesting in May) but not as well with the fall ones. I think my problem the last two years was that I waited until October to plant. This year I started my own seedlings, which I transplanted outside a couple of weeks ago and are now about 4" - 5" high and doing well. I'm trying one I never tried before; "Abe Lincoln" which is an inteterminate heirloom variety.

Peppers seem to do well whenever. Cucumbers and zucchini, not so much.

Good luck.

djlnc 09-13-2023 04:29 PM

Thank you! I had looked online at Lowes and they didn't show any available. I'll do some shopping and do a trial run this year to see how it goes.

asianthree 09-13-2023 04:30 PM

No matter what tomato I plant it just doesn’t taste really good. Kind of reminds me of hot house tomatoes. I am bringing down my heirloom tomato seeds along with garden dirt, in the spring. Plant seeds have been in our family for over 100 years. Hope I can duplicate taste of the many years of great tomatoes, you could pick off the vine and just eat them

ScottGo 09-13-2023 04:38 PM

I planted beefstakes mid-august and doing great. Got asparagus 3 yrs now still growing, jalenapinos more than I need 3 yrs same plant, bell peppers, corn, onions, squash, and pineapples. Cukes grow best in cooler months and radishes also. Beans the birds eat them. I've been starting them in planters in the launi. I use the filtered house water, the tomatoes are usually small for a beefstake but taste better. Spring planting Apr on up, it's to hot.

CFrance 09-13-2023 04:41 PM

There is a nursery in Leesburg on a street kind of parallel to the main drag. I think this is it, though the name doesn't ring a bell: Central Florida Gardener: Simon Seed Farm & Garden Center I bought tomato plants there one year and grew them in the fall. I used a raised planter they sold and the soil they recommended. I agree that Florida tomatoes lack the je-ne-sais-quoi of those in the north.

Jima72 09-13-2023 05:25 PM

Tomatoes
 
Problem with fall tomatoes is the nighttime temperature for them needs to be in the mid to high 70’s.

mikreb 09-14-2023 05:36 AM

Do you have pest problems with tomatoes, peppers, zucchini,...etc?

MidWestIA 09-14-2023 05:38 AM

taste
 
Tried tomatoes in the southern heat no taste Iowa tomatoes were awesome but take 70-80 days to mature without the big heat

Bogie Shooter 09-14-2023 06:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 2256435)
There is a nursery in Leesburg on a street kind of parallel to the main drag. I think this is it, though the name doesn't ring a bell: Central Florida Gardener: Simon Seed Farm & Garden Center I bought tomato plants there one year and grew them in the fall. I used a raised planter they sold and the soil they recommended. I agree that Florida tomatoes lack the je-ne-sais-quoi of those in the north.

Simon Seed went out of business.

Santiagogirl 09-14-2023 07:31 AM

I planted cherry tomatoes in the spring & picked a handful of tomatoes every day through most of the summer. In late summer I started new plants by cutting off tops & suckers from the old plants (they root very easily in a little moist potting soil). I just removed the old original plants & cages and repotted the new ones in large pots. Going to see how they do in the fall. As an aside, I used a fertilizer product called Mater Magic from Lowes this year, which gave good results.

nn0wheremann 09-14-2023 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 2256369)
Growing fall tomatoes in centra Florida.
Growing Tomatoes in Central Florida

One other observation. On your next trip north, dig up a couple of buckets of decent topsoil. I recommend southern or central Illinois or eastern Missouri dirt. Florida topsoil isn’t worth dirt.

RuthA 09-14-2023 10:46 AM

Growing Tomatoes
 
I have tried growing tomatoes here and have had NO success. I got plants at the Farmers Market in Brownwood on Saturdays. The plant grew and grew (5' stems) and NO tomatoes! The soil and weather just does not grow good tomatoes here.


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