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How To Grow Fast Tomatoes in a Container
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2009 Growing Journal: Early Girl Tomato vs. Jetsetter Tomato

2010 Growing Journal Start Page:

- Siberian Tomato vs Stupice Tomato

- Bloody Butcher vs Gregori's Altai Tomato

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Early Girl vs Jetsetter
Comparison of Two Early Season Varieties

Disclaimer: The following Growing Journal is just one way to grow a Early Season tomato plant. There are many different methods, tips and do's and dont's on growing tomatoes. The following method is right for our climate zone, requirements, and situation. We hope that it will be helpful to readers. Also, tomatoes grown in containers larger than 5 gallons, (10 to 25 gallons) will produce more and larger fruit, but 5 gallon is what we have to work with this year. So,...

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Update: June 4, 2009

Both the Early Girl and Jetsetter tomatoes have grown a lot in the last 3 weeks are past the top rung of the tomato cage, and are the exact same size. The Early Girl is on the left, and the Jetsetter is on the right. Both have started to produce little fruit which I picked off so that it will produce more tomatoes later. I moved the tomatoes against a better background to produce a picture that was more clear. Both are larger than some older beefsteaks I started 6.5 weeks earlier but are now the same size as my Brandywines planted started at the same time as the beefsteaks. I also pruned off a few yellow leaves and bad branches.

Update: June 15, 2009

Below: As you can probably tell from this picture, both tomatoes have grown another 6 to 8 inches and are about 42 inches - - tall. Both plants started producing tomatoes soon after the last photo's were taken. The Early Girl on the left has a total of 9 tomatoes coming out and the Jetsetter on the right only has 2. All 4 of my Early Girl tomato plants have about 5 to 10 tomatoes on them while the four Jetsetter plants have 2 or only one. Since Jetsetter's mature about 7 to 10 days later than the Early Girls, this is not a surprise. The one positive about the Jetsetter tomatoes by this point is the larger size of the tomato they have produced. I've been watering once a day unless it rains. The temperatures are slowly starting to climb and soon I will be watering twice a day and adding mulch to the base to keep the roots cool and the moisture locked in.

Below: Close up shot of the tomatoes on the Early Girl. Although you can't see them all in this picture, there are a total of 9 so far on this plant you are looking at (5 are visible). Nine tomatoes by June 15 - this Early Girl is living up to her name quite nicely.

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