Is anyone getting them from the garden yet?
How about you Brook?
When should they start to get ripe?

A few people at the farmers market were selling green ones but no one has any ripe ones yet.
It just seems like with it being the second week in July someone should be getting them by now. Even the green ones for sale are smaller than normal. We have a good amount of green ones in the garden but they are smaller and none of them even look like they are near starting to ripen.

They have 100 tomato plants at my husband's brothers place but its gonna be a log time on them. They already have a guy here in town planning to buy all they can produce. I am just hoping to get enough to eat and can a few. At this rate by the time I have tomatoes all of my peppers are gonna be played out and I really wanted to make salsa.
What I would give for a fresh tomato, mozerella and basil salad lol.

Be careful what you wish for - they may all ripen at the same time! It happened to me one year - seemed like they just wouldn't ripen - then - bingo! Kept me dang busy - that was for sure. And then they were gone! So sad...................

Im dying here Mama.
I have such a craving for a fresh tomato.
I bought some at Wal Mart the other day that were supposed to be fresh.
Wal Mart lied.

That happened with us a few years ago. They all got ripe at once. They came and went fast but were delish while they were here lol.

Janie, I never got a garden in, to speak of, this year. Between the non-stop rains, and involvement with other projects. Got a few things in containers, but that's it.

Tomato maturity is based on two things: the variety itself, and ambient conditions. Weather, in short, can effect when they mature. I'm sure the unseasonably cool temperatures we had all through June will effect the plants.

But a lot depends on the varieity. Most Kentucky heirloom tomatoes, for instance, are late-season types, maturing in 85-95 days.

Wish I could be more helpful. But my only advice is to hang in there. Soon enough they'll turn color.

I could live on homegrown tomoates! Just plain and I would be in heaven! BTW - they all lie. Fresh to me is fresh off the vine - not fresh out of truck that's been on the road 2 days after picking up tomatoes that were waiting 3 days or more!