Well , yesterday I recieved my order of CHerokee Purple, cherry tomato, and the Standard's as well. I also got some Heirloom mix with the Dark Green , orange pineapple , and a few others mixed in. I am starting them under a growlight so they can be put out for fall with the ten or so I have prop-gated off the others , I also got a Strawberry Spinach..will be interesting to try...how is everyone else doing? Anyone with good news , despite the abcense of Rain?

I saw that it was time to plant fall tomatoes back in July but A)I couldn't find any that were less than 4 bucks and B) I didn't think it would be a good idea to plant in this heat.

So, I'm conducting a little experiment. I cut half of my tomato plants back to about 1.5 - 2 feet tall. Mostly red cherry, sweet 100 and early girls. In the few weeks since, they've gone mad. I've never seen as many blooms on these plants as I'm seeing right now.

I know that they most likely will not set so I'm going to cut back the other half of the tomatoes soon and hope they bloom when it's not so hot.

I also did this with a pepper plant and it seems to be doing pretty well. I started seeing new flowers this week.

Anyone ever done this? Any luck?

I wondered if I should trim mine too, they are getting tall , and blooming , but as you said won't set til this heat backs off. I have rooted mine indoors so far when taking from another plant, and started seeds week before last in little greenhouse, will have to add new seeds, last year I got Tomatoe's well into fall , so I am hoping this year works out too...

Well I just had to come tell everyone I have five tomatoes on apatio plant....there is hope....

That's awesome! I have some tomato plants trying to survive, but this heat is very hard on them.

The Walmart here on I-35 had this very same Patio out for sale the last two days...if you can get one and put it in a pot on a porch , I bet you will get a bunch like I am , I bought two more last night....hoping they put out as well as the first one...very study plants too...about 3 buks.

Well, in the last two days I have gotten twenty five peppers in three varieties, and I set out fifteen Cherokee Purples to harden and about a dozen Heirloom Dark green and Pineapple tomatoes,......anyone else going to try for a fall crop?

I planted tomatoes, cabbage, collards, pole beans, bush beans and squash 2 weeks ago. Everything is doing great.

I have a boat load of pepper plants and a few tomato plants that survived the summer. They aren't producing, but most are 3' to 5' tall and they are now budding out again.

me too. The gypsy peppers, cubanelles and italian sweets have survived the summer, and my laziness of not weeding them, and are covered up with fruit, so much that two main beams on the italian pepper split and broke from too many peppers on it.

Tomatoes are pretty much shot, but I've got a watermelon plant still going nuts.

Today I am harvesting Zuccini, Okra ,and Anahiem , Banana , Mexi Bells and an Eggplant. I too have one Tomato that make it thru , all strung out, but covered in blooms, so if I can spare the room I am going to leave it and see if it puts out as well as it did before the heatwave. I can't wait to see my Cherokee's start makin.

Does anybody have anything going out there for fall right now...I lost all my armenian cukes to some little black bug that doesent care about pesticide too much , but put out 15 tomatoes from seed , purple , pineapple and a solid dark green, hoping I get enough before the first freeze, to put some up ...hope you all are having luck.

I'm getting some great peppers and have some tomatoes showing up. I also have okra growing and producing. However, I didn't replant anything...it all either survived the summer or has popped up on it's own. I have had a few volunteer pepper plants this year which was a surprise.

Pleasant surprise as the cool weather and a little rain have made their way her. I had planted 3 broccoli plants earlier this year that have struggled. The one that actually started to produce a crown was overtaken my some type of caterpillar. Thought the plants were done and they only rec'd watering every 4-5 days when I watered my yard. Oddly enough, 2 of the plants survived the summer and both have new crowns on them now and they are really starting to grow, lol. I guess we might get something off of them this year afterall.