Harvest of the day!  My biggest ever!! this is an awesome variety I am saving my own seeds for a few years, and each year, I get better yields.  Only problem is that it ripens all at once.  I see at two others as big as the one in first picture. 

This year, the plant put out some 30 fruits, all huge. I am feeling very lucky. 

Never a gram of any store bought fertilizer was ever used.

Enjoy.

Nice tomatoes. This year I tried Pink Berkeley Tie Dye and  Green Berkeley Tie Dye.

The description said the Acid content might cause Flashbacks

Beautiful tomatoes! Are they in the ground?

very impressive! can you tell us what variety you are using?

Thanks for posting Grasa. I do have interest in tomatoes.
I tried many varieties; the heritage types and hybrid but for the last few years I settled with " Big Beaf". I do get big size tomatoes but not even close to 3 pounder. My neighbour has 10 ft high cedar hedge that hides the sun for part of the day but still enough sun. We plant seedlings after May 20. This year the first ripe tomatoes were on August 5. And yes mine also ripen many at the same time.

I have very very hard time with raccoons for all fruit trees and bushes and more so with figs but they always have left tomatoes and raspberries alone.

I put rat traps... they were coming to visit my chickens, but now totally sealed coop, they are making runs in my garden, which is very overcrowded with many places to hide. I plant poppies and nasturtiums and sunflowers around the plants, these rats and squirels go for the poppy seed and sunflower heads, and chew them up under some plants.. once I see where they are dragging the  heads to munch on, I put traps, and ew ew ew... it is a rat a day, very nasty...Into the garbage can they go.   I struggle with slugs, as my birds cannot be going to the garden beds or they would eat the plants...so each night I spend a long time with  a flashing light looking for the night crawlers.  I collect them in a jar for the birds, if I see a licked tomato, I pick it for the birds...so far, we have a good harvest. 

My figs just started producing.  I got a few brebas on my large tree and many more to come, so far, the rats and squirels left them alone.

As to what variety, I recall it being a determinate beef steak plant I got at a discount store we have here (grocery outlet), they were healthy looking plants with 'heirloom Univ. of Oregon testing' label on them.  I  saved the seeds of the best looking and tasting one and I am using my own saved seeds for several seasons now.  I have some 10+ other different varieties out there. As to Beef steak, this is sweet, large,perfect for sandwiches and salads.


Igor, my tomatoes don't like to grow in pots, I tried, with exception of yellow cherry and a black cherry that I am growing in ''upside down bags" and an indigo blue in a huge pot, all my plants are in raised garden beds, overcrowed with everything else I have out there. 

I like growing the German Johnson heirloom tomatoes.
At least they are my favorite today anyway.

Nice growing there Grasa.
Home grown tomatoes always taste the best.


Doug

Even watering/moisture is important to prevent cracking.

Also crush up some egg shells early in the season and put around the base of the plant.

The kitchen that feeds the homeless will like them, I am bringing to them.   No excess is wasted, believe me... and my hungry chickens love them also.


I am sure the egg shells are in the soil.  I blend them  in a dedicated cup and mix with oats, rice, buckwheat and give it back to the chicken.  Their waste is soaked up in water and diluted to feed the plants.   I guess the plants like it.   I learned this from a gentleman from Iraq, he reported being how his dad grew tomatoes for the market. Since I learn this, I don't compost their waste. I soak it and diluted in the water. I move the mulch out and pour the tea on the roots and cover with the mulch again.  It is a lot of work, but seems to work well. I am going to try this with the fig trees/

Good-looking tomatoes! A couple of my Brandywines are finally ripening - same thing with the German Greens. I'm also starting with a crush of Black Cherry. Just on the cusp of having a handful of tomatoes now and again to having bags full.

Now if only the chile peppers would comply - I'm ready, willing, and able to take on that crush :)

Tomato looks great:)    Toms here have been done for months, just can't handle the summer heat.  This year with the new greenhouse can grow the toms all winter which will be nice, really extends the season.