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This is why I spend months on my tomatoes starting in January
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This is why I spend months on my tomatoes starting in January


With Denver being Zone 5b, our season starts in May and ends in October.

If I do it right, we start to get tomatoes in June. Then by late July we're getting them every day.

Now in September we've reached the time of year where we can't eat them fast enough. So we picked 2 rounds this week. One batch is going to be salsa and then another batch is going to be sun dried tomatoes.

We have approximately one month-ish before the frost wipes it all out again.

by denvergardener

11 Comments

  2. Isaythereisa-chance

    Nice. Tommy toe and cherry tomatoes are my favorite to grow 

  3. Skeletoregano

    So, what do you do in January? Start indoor growing?

  4. realmikebrady

    What you doing in that last pic? Drying?

  6. Roses_all_day

    I am in zone 5b, but in Ontario. I didn’t do it right haha 😅 we had a terribly cold spring and then I pulled my back… I didn’t get things into the ground soon enough. I planted in mid June. 

    I did make sure that the soil was fertilized and sheep manuer seemed to help, but I am just getting some in the last couple weeks. 

    I’ve been reading as much as I can for next year, determined to do better with indeterminates! 

  9. GravityBright

    Cool! What are the big yellow ones?

  10. Solid-Bet1972

    Hello. So you have the plant 4 months old when you take it outside?
    How do you keep it at home?

  11. McBuck2

    How do you store sundried cherry tomatoes and what do you use them for?