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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 22/01/2009 : 19:32:07
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Found Beefsteak Tomato seedlings at Bunnings today gee the punnets are getting lousy only four plants in them now and the price has gone up again since Christmas.. So I will give them a go now, hopefully they will kick on in this hot dry weather..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 23/01/2009 : 07:01:18
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they are one of my favs MA, a really nice tommie 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 23/01/2009 : 08:05:30
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We have never grown them before Cheryl, so I hope they do well here.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
Edited by - Mary-Anne on 23/01/2009 08:05:56 |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 23/01/2009 : 09:04:51
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You'll be pleased, yummy flavour, colour and nice and juicy if ripened on the bush
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 23/01/2009 : 09:54:05
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what about the fruit fly?
MA...on another site...someone recently told me that in hawaii...they wrap newspaper around their tomatoes and secure it with toothpicks. what do you think the rain might do to that setup?
at the spotlight...the tulle bags are $1 each. expensive. but then they're reusable, cheaper than buying a tomato, and will dry out nicely.
anyway...good luck, MA. i'll be interested in seeing how the beefsteaks look. i grew bunning's 'big beef' this year...it was very productive and is on my top 5 list.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 23/01/2009 : 09:58:10
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We grew beefsteak a couple of years ago - nice flavour, lovely,soft and juicy like a real tomato but was prone to fruit fly though that shouldn't be a problem by another couple of months when they are fruiting.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 23/01/2009 : 11:30:29
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Thanks Everyone they sound delicious.
Cheryl if it has cooled down a lot by time they are ready to pick we will leave them on the vine to ripen
Tessa well wet paper will only fall apart wont it but then the toothpick may keep it in place, and as Gail wrote Fruit Fly will not be a problem when they are fruiting. We usually start growing tomato seedlings again in Feb a few weeks earlier but they should be ok..Of course I will post pics of what they look like..
Thanks Gail we will see how they go..
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
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Posted - 24/01/2009 : 03:09:12
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 24/01/2009 : 07:21:08
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stings the fruit and lays it's maggots in them.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 24/01/2009 : 07:47:10
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ewwwwww you make is sound so yucky LOL
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 24/01/2009 : 08:17:14
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I`ll say |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 24/01/2009 : 09:17:26
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It is yukky especially when your hubby brings in all the tomatoes and I say throw that one out and here is another with a sting spot on it, no they alright he says then a couple of days later you see these little white maggots crawling around in the fruit basket on the bench or better still when I cut one open for his salad sandwich at lunch time and they are in there, he quickly disposes of them then I tell you.. He also quickly forgets and more get back in the fruit bowl the next time as I have thrown that basket away...
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 25/01/2009 : 05:06:31
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extra fillings for hubby  
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 25/01/2009 : 08:22:42
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No Definitely not
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 25/01/2009 : 10:29:28
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Good source of protein
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 25/01/2009 : 12:17:20
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I know that and you know that Gail..
Try telling Tony that ...
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Got Some Beefsteak Seedlings..