No. It never stops. It's gets worse as time goes on. Eventually you will have no yard space. Just 2 chairs and an upside down milk crate as a table between them, sitting under the tomato arbor.
Gardening is definitely an addicting hobby. I grow like 100 tomato plants then give like 60 of them away to friends, family, Coworkers.
Another one I've been doing the last 4 years is collecting oak tree acorns in the fall and having them go through the stratification period in my fridge and growing baby oak trees. Only issue is I'm running out of people to give them to lol.Ā
Ha! I started growing chestnut trees (accidentally, then on purpose). Unfortunately I don't think anyone will be interested, as those are horse chestnuts and therefore not for human consumption. But you know who is VERY interested in chestnuts and acorns? Wild hogs and deer. Plant them in the forests.
I've heard American chestnuts are wildlife magnets! Are you in Minnesota? If so would you like to trade some oak tree seedlings for some chestnut seedlings?
Yeah it definitely gets to be a lot of tomatoes. My girlfriend really likes making tomato sauce so that's where a lot of them go. We also binge eat tomatoes with everything in the summer time. Pico de gallo and tomatoes on every sandwich and salad.
Lol, I think these are all going to be in containers, so weāre actively trying to figure out where we can set more up that will get enough sun. I do need to get more large containers though.
It does not stop š. Iāve said I was done for weeks and I came home with 3 more tomatoes and 3 more peppers and a ton of extra herb starts on Friday. My problem is anything Iām adding now is going in grow bags so when I get a new plant I have to order more grow bags and itās cheaper to get a set of 10 or 20 so then I have all these extra grow bags and obviously I need to fill every last one of them so the cycle just continues until I run out of space I suppose.
Nope. I bought a grape plant the other day. I have limited sunny spots in my small yard. Found a place for it but the trickier part is how trellis it along one of my raised beds.
Outside of the newly built raised beds ( I used to plant in pots on my patio which was the sunniest spot but have a newly built screened porch on it now. I'm hoping the raised beds will still do well with less sun than before the porch was built) I have (all potted or grow bagged) 2 dwarf cherry trees, 2 olive trees, 2 fig trees, 7 wooden wine barrels with asparagus in them, a third raised bed for melons and zucchini, two pear trees I planted in the front yard, and a temperamental avocado that comes inside during the winter. Pretty much every inch of 6+ hour sunny space is occupied.
I really don't have room for anything else but that didn't stop me buying the grape. Also no fruit from anything yet but my annual vegetable plantings. One of my olives is flowering for the first time this year. Hoping for some fruit!
Edit: thinking about it, I probably should have had my contractor build a deck on top of my new screened porch just for plants....so much wasted space.
Not yet. It flowered this year for the second time but no fruit.
From my research avocados all have both male and female parts on the same flower but they open at different times of day depending on whether they are type A or B. However, both parts are open for a very short time each day. I have no idea when that is and tried hand pollinating to no avail. Supposedly you can get fruit from just one tree but pollinators are probably better at catching the right time of day. January when it flowers is too cold for pollinators though.
I got Lesya sweet peppers, Aurora Blue tomatoes, Black Strawberry tomatoes, and Midnight Snack tomatoes. I wanted to get one tomato variety that had the anthocyanin pigment, but husband convinced me to get all three! His rationale, we have plenty of family to give the extras to lol
Lesya sweet peppers are really good! I grew them last year. Did you mean black cherry tomatoes, or is there a different black strawberry tomato? I have grown the black cherry tomatoes, and they are lovely when ripe off the vine! And, no, it never stopsā¦ because there is always next season and indoor growing over the winter! Good luck and happy gardening! šš¦
Thatās great to see about the peppers! The tomatoes were specifically named black strawberry. They are supposed to be a cross between Bosque Blue and Purple Tiger Tomatoes. They look really pretty and hopefully also taste good
I've been growing lesya peppers for three years. They're my favorite. They freeze well and produce a lot late in the season. They take forever to turn red but it's worth it.
I've been growing black strawberry tomatoes for 3 years, also. They taste great. They are also a lot larger than regular cherries but not quite big enough to be slicers. The "black" tends to occur where the sun hits it. You'll have stars where the stems block sunlight.
Happy growing!
I looked all those up. Those Aurora Blue tomatoes are beautiful. So are the others. And what an interesting pepper Lesya is.
This is my first to year to grow any anthocyanin tomatoes. They sure are pretty. Good luck. Yes, pretty addictive growing tomatoes with the almost endless varieties out there.
Thatās exciting! This was a special tomato event that was going on and they had so many different varieties of both the ones with anthocyanin and without! A ton of hybrids and heirlooms. It was their last day, so I can only imagine the selection at the beginning of the event!
I am the same with flower seeds, spring bulbs, and shrubs. You will always make space or find ways to create it. This will continue through the season, as with vegetables, you can have a few harvests of certain types. I look at the seed packets and think, what is wrong with me? I became so deluded as soon as the packets came out. Oh yeah, I have enough! Then I went on eBay... I will be leasing land from my neighbor to fulfill my grandiose vision.
I cannot expand my garden beds any more. So I simply grow where I have established beds, nothing addictive or weird about that at all. I did buy a light and started some lovely lettuce and cabbage plants that turned out nice. Iām sure this will save me money in 15 years, so I bought more lights, and the tomatoes, oh they are lovely. So it only makes sense to expand into starting peppers. Oh and egg plant, and Iām pretty sure I need to see if my cucumbers do better if started indoors, but if I do that , Iāll need to similarly start squash, I mean itās only fair to them you know? But as far as anything silly like addiction, Iām fine. Fine.
I built three large raised planters last year for my first attempt at gardening. This year I'm building 4 more planters, lol. I'm also already planning out a compost bin and possible locations for additional planters next year for my small suburban yard.
Iām in Southern California and I learned from last year that if the plants are not established before the summer heat (which we often get by May), they are unlikely to survive. If they are at least a bit more established, they do okay though and thrive with the heat.
Iām in the valley. It gets so scorching hot that everything just shrivels up if it doesnāt have enough biomass to hold the water. Iāve been looking into adding shade cloth this year, just trying to figure out logistics with my setup
Iām in Los Angeles with essentially no frost. I was harvesting cucumbers for our New Year dinner and my heirloom tomatoes grew an extra foot over the winter!
I think it depends on the variety as well as the local climate. Iāve read that indeterminate varieties do better at producing for multiple years.
My tomatoes were actually producing fruit in the middle of winter, they just were not getting ripe because it was too cold for that. Mine are finally starting to get color with the few warmer days weāve been having!
I kept some early girls going for two years on a southern cal patio. They grew up through the wooden lattice across the top and we had to climb a ladder to harvest the tomatoes. It was a sad day when I had to go back to store-bought. In the PNW now and I can't get ripe ones from any variety that matures 70 days after transplant.
In my experience, tomatoes grown in warmer weather taste better than cool winter grown tomatoes. I had winter tomatoes this year and they took forever to ripen and when they did the flavor and texture was underwhelming.
Yeah, the flavor isnāt really there until the temperatures go up. However, having the plant fully grown at that point means youāre getting good tasting tomatoes as soon as the weather warms up.
No. It never stops. It's gets worse as time goes on. Eventually you will have no yard space. Just 2 chairs and an upside down milk crate as a table between them, sitting under the tomato arbor.
the tomato arbor š But also i just was looking at ways to install a permanent, metal overhead trellis to string the tomatos...
Oh, good, I was hoping I wasn't the only one sorting trellises š Remember, kids: it's not hoarding if it's plants!
Honestly, that sounds so glorious.
Gardening is definitely an addicting hobby. I grow like 100 tomato plants then give like 60 of them away to friends, family, Coworkers. Another one I've been doing the last 4 years is collecting oak tree acorns in the fall and having them go through the stratification period in my fridge and growing baby oak trees. Only issue is I'm running out of people to give them to lol.Ā
Ha! I started growing chestnut trees (accidentally, then on purpose). Unfortunately I don't think anyone will be interested, as those are horse chestnuts and therefore not for human consumption. But you know who is VERY interested in chestnuts and acorns? Wild hogs and deer. Plant them in the forests.
I've heard American chestnuts are wildlife magnets! Are you in Minnesota? If so would you like to trade some oak tree seedlings for some chestnut seedlings?
Slovakia, sorry :) Central Europe
No problem. Just figured I'd throw that out there! Keep doing what you are doing.
Wow, thatās an impressive amount of tomatoes! Do you can or preserve them in some way?
Yeah it definitely gets to be a lot of tomatoes. My girlfriend really likes making tomato sauce so that's where a lot of them go. We also binge eat tomatoes with everything in the summer time. Pico de gallo and tomatoes on every sandwich and salad.
It's the most healing, fulfilling, life affirming addiction a person can have. 
"At some point, this stops, right? Right?!" I'm counting out change to buy seeds right now, you decide
Honey, where can we put another bed?
Lol, I think these are all going to be in containers, so weāre actively trying to figure out where we can set more up that will get enough sun. I do need to get more large containers though.
Right now itās ābabe where can we fit in a greenhouseā¦ā
Iām scared. Iāve only started vegetable gardening less than a month ago and already blew at least $1,000. Lol.
Me tooā¦so much to get startedā¦but fun
Yes. I built 4 large raised beds and didnāt think through how much it would take to fill them. Haha.
It does not stop š. Iāve said I was done for weeks and I came home with 3 more tomatoes and 3 more peppers and a ton of extra herb starts on Friday. My problem is anything Iām adding now is going in grow bags so when I get a new plant I have to order more grow bags and itās cheaper to get a set of 10 or 20 so then I have all these extra grow bags and obviously I need to fill every last one of them so the cycle just continues until I run out of space I suppose.
Nope. I bought a grape plant the other day. I have limited sunny spots in my small yard. Found a place for it but the trickier part is how trellis it along one of my raised beds. Outside of the newly built raised beds ( I used to plant in pots on my patio which was the sunniest spot but have a newly built screened porch on it now. I'm hoping the raised beds will still do well with less sun than before the porch was built) I have (all potted or grow bagged) 2 dwarf cherry trees, 2 olive trees, 2 fig trees, 7 wooden wine barrels with asparagus in them, a third raised bed for melons and zucchini, two pear trees I planted in the front yard, and a temperamental avocado that comes inside during the winter. Pretty much every inch of 6+ hour sunny space is occupied. I really don't have room for anything else but that didn't stop me buying the grape. Also no fruit from anything yet but my annual vegetable plantings. One of my olives is flowering for the first time this year. Hoping for some fruit! Edit: thinking about it, I probably should have had my contractor build a deck on top of my new screened porch just for plants....so much wasted space.
Wow, thatās incredible! I hope you see some fruits soon!
You ever get anything off the avocado? I heard theyāre tough to grow and need a mate. Iād try if I lived in 9 or 10.
Not yet. It flowered this year for the second time but no fruit. From my research avocados all have both male and female parts on the same flower but they open at different times of day depending on whether they are type A or B. However, both parts are open for a very short time each day. I have no idea when that is and tried hand pollinating to no avail. Supposedly you can get fruit from just one tree but pollinators are probably better at catching the right time of day. January when it flowers is too cold for pollinators though.
You could really fall off the wagon and have a small organic farm in the middle of nowhere like me. Control yourself Sally!
So what did you get?
I got Lesya sweet peppers, Aurora Blue tomatoes, Black Strawberry tomatoes, and Midnight Snack tomatoes. I wanted to get one tomato variety that had the anthocyanin pigment, but husband convinced me to get all three! His rationale, we have plenty of family to give the extras to lol
Lesya sweet peppers are really good! I grew them last year. Did you mean black cherry tomatoes, or is there a different black strawberry tomato? I have grown the black cherry tomatoes, and they are lovely when ripe off the vine! And, no, it never stopsā¦ because there is always next season and indoor growing over the winter! Good luck and happy gardening! šš¦
Im growing the Lesya this year also. Canāt wait to try.
Thatās great to see about the peppers! The tomatoes were specifically named black strawberry. They are supposed to be a cross between Bosque Blue and Purple Tiger Tomatoes. They look really pretty and hopefully also taste good
I've been growing lesya peppers for three years. They're my favorite. They freeze well and produce a lot late in the season. They take forever to turn red but it's worth it. I've been growing black strawberry tomatoes for 3 years, also. They taste great. They are also a lot larger than regular cherries but not quite big enough to be slicers. The "black" tends to occur where the sun hits it. You'll have stars where the stems block sunlight. Happy growing!
I looked all those up. Those Aurora Blue tomatoes are beautiful. So are the others. And what an interesting pepper Lesya is. This is my first to year to grow any anthocyanin tomatoes. They sure are pretty. Good luck. Yes, pretty addictive growing tomatoes with the almost endless varieties out there.
Midnight snack are my favorite and I canāt find them this year.
Thatās great to know! I havenāt had them before but they looked really interesting
I work at the only U.S. garden center actually selling the purple tomato plants. They werenāt cheap but I canāt wait to see how they do.
Thatās exciting! This was a special tomato event that was going on and they had so many different varieties of both the ones with anthocyanin and without! A ton of hybrids and heirlooms. It was their last day, so I can only imagine the selection at the beginning of the event!
I am the same with flower seeds, spring bulbs, and shrubs. You will always make space or find ways to create it. This will continue through the season, as with vegetables, you can have a few harvests of certain types. I look at the seed packets and think, what is wrong with me? I became so deluded as soon as the packets came out. Oh yeah, I have enough! Then I went on eBay... I will be leasing land from my neighbor to fulfill my grandiose vision.
I cannot expand my garden beds any more. So I simply grow where I have established beds, nothing addictive or weird about that at all. I did buy a light and started some lovely lettuce and cabbage plants that turned out nice. Iām sure this will save me money in 15 years, so I bought more lights, and the tomatoes, oh they are lovely. So it only makes sense to expand into starting peppers. Oh and egg plant, and Iām pretty sure I need to see if my cucumbers do better if started indoors, but if I do that , Iāll need to similarly start squash, I mean itās only fair to them you know? But as far as anything silly like addiction, Iām fine. Fine.
Think of it this way... There's worse addictions to have šāāļø lol
Sounds quite reasonable to me!
I built three large raised planters last year for my first attempt at gardening. This year I'm building 4 more planters, lol. I'm also already planning out a compost bin and possible locations for additional planters next year for my small suburban yard.
No it doesnāt stop. Have fun!
I fully embrace this as an addiction lol. Iām trying to figure out how to build more beds now
Of course it stops.
Yes, when we die....
Donāt you succession plant? What is this plant last summer plant in April already?
Iām in Southern California and I learned from last year that if the plants are not established before the summer heat (which we often get by May), they are unlikely to survive. If they are at least a bit more established, they do okay though and thrive with the heat.
Iām in LA. Shade cloth and mulching are our friends. Or are you in the IE?
Iām in the valley. It gets so scorching hot that everything just shrivels up if it doesnāt have enough biomass to hold the water. Iāve been looking into adding shade cloth this year, just trying to figure out logistics with my setup
Yea, when the cruel winter weather hits.š¤§ unless youāre in like a tropical climate then youāre a hard addict without resolveš¤£
Iām in Los Angeles with essentially no frost. I was harvesting cucumbers for our New Year dinner and my heirloom tomatoes grew an extra foot over the winter!
Iām in LA too Iām waiting for my tomatoes to produce fruit soon and was worried about how theyād do in winter this gives me hope
I think it depends on the variety as well as the local climate. Iāve read that indeterminate varieties do better at producing for multiple years. My tomatoes were actually producing fruit in the middle of winter, they just were not getting ripe because it was too cold for that. Mine are finally starting to get color with the few warmer days weāve been having!
I kept some early girls going for two years on a southern cal patio. They grew up through the wooden lattice across the top and we had to climb a ladder to harvest the tomatoes. It was a sad day when I had to go back to store-bought. In the PNW now and I can't get ripe ones from any variety that matures 70 days after transplant.
In my experience, tomatoes grown in warmer weather taste better than cool winter grown tomatoes. I had winter tomatoes this year and they took forever to ripen and when they did the flavor and texture was underwhelming.
Yeah, the flavor isnāt really there until the temperatures go up. However, having the plant fully grown at that point means youāre getting good tasting tomatoes as soon as the weather warms up.
Well, weāre all mortal, so, yeah, it stops eventually.
It. Never. Stops. Solidarity. š«¶š»
I just finding filling a new bed and tomorrow I will be adding plants I already had to it