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Heidi
Sept 21, 2020 23:07:19 GMT -6
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 21, 2020 23:07:19 GMT -6
Mine came to me that way. I enjoy the variety. They all look like peanuts and bear very heavily. I got over 100 pounds of tomatoes off of only 14 plants. and the flavor was spectacular!
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Post by glen on Sept 22, 2020 0:42:37 GMT -6
Ok, sounds like your Heidi has been messing around a little. Well, the first time I grew it I had some round tomato's plus mostly peanut style pears. I don't know what I will get this time. I will let you know though and take some photo's. I only plan to grow one variety of tomato's so whatever it is will have to work.
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Post by macmex on Sept 22, 2020 7:19:09 GMT -6
I always plant mine a good distance from any others. Over the years I've been decreasing the number of varieties I grow in a given year. Pollinators are on the increase in our garden. I frequently see bumble bees and other natives working tomato, bean and pepper flowers. The original seed I received produced some cherry tomato types. I haven't seen one of those for a while, but they can still crop up.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 23, 2020 21:21:53 GMT -6
A little while ago, my wife got a craving and decided that she wanted to try a little of Lisa Turner's wonderful goat feta cheese to make some, horsd'oeuvres using those little cracked black pepper Triscuit crackers, fresh basil, black olives, olive oil, dried tomatoes, marinated artichoke hearts, and little sliced Heidi tomato on top as garnish.
Trouble was, we didn't have any fresh picked Heidi tomatoes sitting around up here at our house, so I had to make a late-night run with a flashlight, down to 'God's Grocery Store', AKA 'my garden', to get a few good, ripe ones, for my wife's Midnight project.
One thing about God's Grocery Store; if he doesn't happen to have what you want exactly, you'll always walk away with what you really need, (Some quality time with our Lord, in his garden, where he provides our every need for most of our summer desires, no matter how fickle they may sometimes be.
Thank you, Lord, for your bountiful provision! Thank you ,Lord, for your wonderful abundance in supplying our every need, no matter what time of day or night it might be. Because of you, we are truly blessed and can go to our gardens to fulfil just about any crazy culinary dream!
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Heidi
Oct 9, 2020 23:56:45 GMT -6
Post by glen on Oct 9, 2020 23:56:45 GMT -6
Ron, I am really liking those Heidi tomato photo's. Today I transplanted 6 little baby Heidi's into large pots. They aren't the best looking baby's but they will have to do. The weather here is awful. Rainy every day, no sun. The baby's are leggy and kind of sad looking. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this hardy variety survives until the weather turns. We'll see.
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Heidi
Oct 10, 2020 9:47:38 GMT -6
Post by heavyhitterokra on Oct 10, 2020 9:47:38 GMT -6
My Heidi tomatoes are just about played out, but I still had enough stragglers to fill the dehydrator one more time. They certainly have a long growing season. My other so-called, favorite table tomatoes are long, long, gone, but Heidi keeps on chugging along. You gotta love that much about them if nothing else.
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Post by glen on Oct 10, 2020 23:08:24 GMT -6
The thing I like the best about Heidi is its flavor plus its dependability. Most tomato's don't produce for me and when they do they don't taste good. Heidi produces a lot of tomato's for a long season. I can depend on it. Plus the flavor is rich. Its a keeper in the tropics. I really hope the plants I have now are not crossed and that they survive.
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Post by glen on Oct 11, 2020 19:56:16 GMT -6
Here is a photo or two of my Heidi tomato grow. Tomato's hate Panama's rainy season. Not enough sun. Too much humidity and dampness. I am still in the rainy season. If these seedlings can survive for a the next 30 days I will have an early season. We are really getting an awful lot of rain now. Plus, I do have white fly's in the yard now. The white fly's had attacked my oldest Purple Thunder chili's. I pulled all of them up today. White fly's hate the rainy season. I had my Purple Thunder adults living under the over-hang of the house roof. A perfect place for white fly's to hang out. If they decide to attack my heidi tomato's my dreams of a lush tomato harvest will be dashed.
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Post by theozarkan on Jan 4, 2021 20:21:34 GMT -6
Y'all had me about to try and run down some seeds for these but then I looked in my seed box and went through all the tomatoes I won't have room for again this year anyway and I was able to resist. Maybe someday.
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Heidi
Jan 5, 2021 4:52:14 GMT -6
Post by macmex on Jan 5, 2021 4:52:14 GMT -6
2020 was the only season I've ever had a Heidi crop failure. I had them in part of the garden that got severely overgrown with weeds and neglected. I should do a good planting of them this coming season. They are so very practical for our hot summer climate.
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Post by glen on Jan 5, 2021 14:03:08 GMT -6
I have 7 Heidi plants in pots against my fence now. I have severe blossom end rot. Tomato's are very tiny. Not that many tomato's. Most are too damaged to use. Its horrible hot now. I have the plants under palm tree's to try and shield them from the sun some. Nothing is helping. I did have tomato horn worms for a little while. I am not happy with this planting at all. Heidi is not bullet proof when conditions are not good for them. In Panama this is the tomato season so I should be seeing much better results. I did follow Ron's suggesting by adding calcium to the pots. The weather is affecting my peppers also. I have a lot of sweet chili's growing also. Very poor fruit set. Jalepeno's are not setting fruits either. Chili Rayado did overcome the galls that attacked them and now they are growing normally. I am seeing blooms but no fruit set. Hot chili's are producing but not as much as usual.
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Post by rdback on Jan 7, 2021 8:58:15 GMT -6
Growing things can have its challenges, and your environment makes it even more so. I'm impressed with what you're able to accomplish. Best of luck Glen, and keep after it.
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 7, 2021 16:44:52 GMT -6
I transplanted my first Heidi tomato today. I own one hand-me-down tomato cage (normally I trellis), and I thought it might work in a pot on the deck. The seedling was a bit leggy from before I put it under lights, so that little stem is buried. My five year old asked yesterday if he could plant a tomato, so he helped me with this, and it is now “his” tomato.
(The fancy pot is a hand me down, too. A master gardener neighbor moved a couple of years ago, and she gave me all her plants, pots, and leftover gardening supplies.)
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 8, 2021 21:26:38 GMT -6
I’ve got one teen, one tween, an eight year old and a just-turned five. No one is taller than I am yet, but they’re getting there. The older ones don’t have as much interest in the garden, but I do what I can to keep them engaged.
It was very cute this morning. My husband and I were scooping water out of a trash can rain barrel where we collect air conditioning condensation and watering plants. The five year old got a little water and made sure that he went first to take care of Heidi. I guess that’s a proper name as well as a variety for this one plant.
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Heidi
May 9, 2021 13:31:12 GMT -6
Post by heavyhitterokra on May 9, 2021 13:31:12 GMT -6
chrysanthemum,
That was a wonderful picture in my mind's eye. Thanks, for sharing that.
In summer, we run a 2" inch PVC pipe from our air conditioning condensate line over to our blueberry patch 20' feet away. Being how it's distilled water, the blueberry plants love it!
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