Got some Pink Brandywine!

Wow! Very nice! I skipped a vegetable garden this year to concentrate on trees (and to take a break from fighting the deer each year), but do miss it at times. I may try again next year, but may have to put up a much stronger and higher fence. I sure do miss home grown tomatoes. Never tried Brandywine...it looks good!
 
RandyK said:
Wow! Very nice! I skipped a vegetable garden this year to concentrate on trees (and to take a break from fighting the deer each year), but do miss it at times. I may try again next year, but may have to put up a much stronger and higher fence. I sure do miss home grown tomatoes. Never tried Brandywine...it looks good!
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No veggies!!!?


I got lucky, I showed up here with a fenced in garden. I'm having a great year with peppers, I love Pink Brandywines, they're a great slicing tomato.
 
ZomVee said:
No veggies!!!?


I got lucky, I showed up here with a fenced in garden. I'm having a great year with peppers, I love Pink Brandywines, they're a great slicing tomato.
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I know. I am missing the veggie garden more than I thought I would. Especially the tomatoes and peppers. And I would love to get zucchini and squash, but the deer have never left those alone. I guess I could have planted all onions and garlic...the deer don't seem to like those. A fenced garden...very nice!
 
RandyK said:
I know. I am missing the veggie garden more than I thought I would. Especially the tomatoes and peppers. And I would love to get zucchini and squash, but the deer have never left those alone. I guess I could have planted all onions and garlic...the deer don't seem to like those. A fenced garden...very nice!
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Do you bring in your figs each winter? Or are you protecting them? I have mine in the ground, my Ischia Black and Algerian Chetoui have come back, but I probably won't get a harvest. I'm making so more compost right now to mulch around them. I'll probably make a makeshift greenhouse box to protect them this winter.
 
ZomVee said:
Do you bring in your figs each winter? Or are you protecting them? I have mine in the ground, my Ischia Black and Algerian Chetoui have come back, but I probably won't get a harvest. I'm making so more compost right now to mulch around them. I'll probably make a makeshift greenhouse box to protect them this winter.
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I have all my figs potted and bring them in each winter, with the exception of one tree. The first tree that I ever got in Tennessee was a Chicago Hardy. I immediately put that one in the ground. It was young and tender that first year and died back, but I had heard and read up that this was likely to happen and that they usually come back from their roots. And it did. For the next couple of years it never experienced ANY die back...not even the tips. Once it was established, it did great. But then 3 winters ago and also 2 winters ago, we had serious and prolonged "polar vortex" events. These were events where night time temps were single digits and even below zero on one occasion. And they lasted 3 or 4 days, when even the daytime highs were mostly single digits. I think it is just too cold for too long. Both of those years it died to the ground. Two years ago I even tried to provide a little protection, but it didn't make any difference, it still died back down to the ground. So this last winter I just didn't provide any protection at all and figured it will just make it or die back...not going to baby it. This past winter we had a night that was single digits and a there were a couple of other occasions where it was in the teens. It didn't have any die back again, not even the tips. So, I think true cold hardy varieties can do very well in your area and mine with no protection at all once they are established...but they will die back in prolonged severe cold. Just what I've experienced. That tree is a monster tree again this year...tall, broad, deep green leaves, lots of figs...I never water it, I never fertilize it, and it does great! I'll bet if you mulch and put that greenhouse box around yours, that they will thrive outside!
 
ZomVee said:
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Just ate two and man it's good to have some awesome beefsteaks again. Juicy, meaty, tangy goodness
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Oh baby.... With our late start I've only been eating cherry tomatoes. I can't wait to start getting some of the big, juicy ones like that. I'm looking forward to that point in August where I can make tomato salads every day for lunch... maybe toss in a cuc or sweet pepper.... few basil leaves and olive oil... and carve into a hunk of bread.....

....crap, now I'm hungry again!
 
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