Growing Tomato's

These are our high tunnels. The high tunnels are 20' x 90'. One is mostly tomatoes the other blue berries and raspberries.

Jerry is tilling the garden for more tomatoes. This tractor is a 1954 Allis Chalmers tractor. It was built when things were built to last.

This does not have much to do with tomatoes. This is Rylin she has just finished raiding the strawberries and snow peas. It was such a cute picture I had to use it.

Tomatoes make roots of the stem and should be planted up to the first leaves. A strong root system is essential to good growth.

These nodules will turn into roots

This tomato is in our outside garden. We will eventual put the tomatoes into a Florida weave trellis system to support the plant and keep the tomato's off the ground

Some heirloom tomato's have different shaded leaves then the hybrids. The leaves smell like tomatoes just like the hybrids. This is a heirloom tomato plant.

This is  a hybrid tomato plant.

This is a tomatillo plant. They are sometimes referred to as Mexican tomato's but they are in a different genus. The tomatillo is a member of the night shade family along with the egg plant and potato. Tomatillo's are good in salsas especially for those who do not like a strong tomato  flavor. Other tomatillo's are called ground cherries and have a pineapple flavor.

high tunnel tomato's

  Buffalo Creek Farms has around 120 tomato plants in the ground right now. We have over 20 varieties of tomato plants. The plants are mostly heirloom but there are varieties of hybrids as well. Some tomatoes are grown in the high tunnels others outside. The high tunnels are mostly filled with heirloom tomatoes, because the heirlooms are indeterminate. The indeterminate tomatoes continue to grow through out the season. The trellis system in the high tunnel is designed for this type of tomato plant. There are good reasons for both type. The outside tomato's will be put in to a Florida weave system.We have had a few ripe tomatoes already. I think we will start the real harvesting in about 3 weeks and continue throughout the season.