Any good guides on growing tomatoes indoors in an apartment without a balcony?
Also our domestic tomato harvest is going to be the lowest in 3 decades because farmers have no one to pick them. So they planted only enough their local labor can handle. Usually million of migrate workers would be arriving in America to plant and harvest. Now… Literally zero. Last year they were caught off guard. This year many farmers went under, sold to corporations, or reduced yields drastically. We are in for major food shock this year.
(not to mention the war impact on fertilizer costs.)
Am I supposed to know how much a box of tomatoes normally costs? How big of a box? Why not give the price increase as a percentage?
I hate headlines.
How much could a tomato cost? $10?
Prices for tomatoes are up 40% over the past year, the biggest increase tracked among products in the Consumer Price Index
Literary the sub headline.
“I will suffer high prices, poverty, and hunger for Trump because I believe in his plan and know he’s doing what is best” - some trump simp
Someone tell my Midwestern grandparents their ship has finally come in. They had a backyard the size of a postage stamp and somehow produced bushels and bushels of tomatoes each year. They could probably singlehandedly close the supply gap especially if you settle for what they canned.
Its like one of the few things worth growing. Why grow a potato when I can get like 20lb of them for $5.
yeah that is the thing with tomatoes. no tomatoes. no tomatoes. no tomatoes. holy hannah tons of tomatoes. no tomatoes.
A pizza place I loved dearly had to close because of this. It’s hard to keep pricing competitive when tomatoes shoot from $20 to $93.
Fuck Trump and his band of Nazis
And still those that voted for him are not far up shit creek to realise how much they have fucked over everyone in America and are STILL proud of their choice.
I mean, we are talking about people that confidently state the high gas prices are worth it. Definitely PROUD of their choice.
…have fucked over everyone in
Americathe World and are STILL proud of their choice.Tomatoes are for pussy liberals! - Trump voter
“They’re the trans fruit of the vegetable world”-MAGAs
Ethnic food! like onions! and, Flavor!
I remind them. I’m not a “told ya so” kind of person, but it’s important to remind them not to make the same mistakes again.
I voted against that mofo 3 times, yo. I try. Every. Single. Day. For so many years. It hurts and I’m really tired.
Tomatoes were already one of the best effort:reward things you could grow in a balcony garden, this makes it even better.
Ushering In a new era of seasonal veggies…
For real. Tomatoes are so easy to grow, and homegrown tomatoes taste so much better.
They really aren’t that much easier to grow than most other things. They just offer more value for the time and space.
Especially with things like the dwarf tomato project, there are hundreds of varieties that dont get over three feet tall. That plus grow bags and the lightweight coco coir soil mixes that can be easily shipped and carried around it really doesn’t make sense not to.
I like to let my tomatoes vine and go crazy for the extra shade in the mornings. :) With trellises, they’re super nice.
Humping out a 5 gallon bucket every couple days, though…
Mmm… Fresh humped tomato
We’re getting into “borrow neighbor’s wife or husband” ““for a bushel of tomatoes”” territory.
As these costs trickle down, outraged shoppers have taken to social media, filming videos lamenting prices they claim have quadrupled, with some vowing to plant their own gardens to avoid paying up to $8 a pound.
In California, the cost of water for consumers precludes growing high-cost vegetables to realize overall savings: unless consumers can figure a way to get their water at agricultural pricing.
We are allowed to setup rain capture systems. I have over 3000 gallons of free water each Feb, and that lasts my plants until Nov.
Where do you store 3000 gallons? Thats a lot of space! Very cool though, I’m kinda jealous
I have 2 × 1550 gallon tanks in my backyard that are cylinders that are about 6’ in diameter, and about 6’6" tall. Also two hundred gallon tanks that are a little smaller in diameter than a standard round yard trashcan, but a bit taller. It doesn’t take as much space as you’d think.
If you were to store it all at once, it would fit in a cube with 2.4 metre (7.84 foot) sides.
Not as much as I expected! Still a decent footprint, but more manageable!
Probably possible to bury the tank deep enough you could grow the tomatoes on the ground above it if space is a concern.
I’m currently running my phone in black & white so I can’t tell for sure, but those look like beefsteaks which I believe, personally, I’ve gotten pretty good at growing.
Looks like I’ll be trading tomatoes for what I want this season. Fuck money
Good tip for tomatoes, start it and let the plant get 2-3 sets of the round leaves (leafs?) or 1 true set, strip the leaves (again, leafs? I’m drunk.). Bury it with the bottom of the stem about 2-4 inches above the bottom of a well drained bucket. Make sure you have holes near the bottom. Put the bucket in a tray. Water the plant from the bottom, in the tray. Never from the top.
Trust me. It works… so well. I promise. You’re welcome.
They are. You can tell because it says “beefsteak” underneath.
How can we be sure these aren’t the Beefs Teak variety?
I didn’t see that. Nice catch, Watson.
As you know - store bought beefsteaks taste of nothing. They’re just bred for tough skin and redness. So much better to grow your own. I basically don’t eat tomatoes if I can’t grow them myself.
So you have tasted the difference? Because why even buy one of those water flavored balloons??? Amirite??? ofc, my love
The stem should be fuzzy when you strip the leaves. That fuzz can turn into roots. Which it should. Soooooo much more fruit this way. Yes, tomato is fruit
That’s why I put it in my fruit salad!
If anyone reading this is wondering: substitute 1/3 of the grapes for cherry or grape tomatoes in Grandma’s fruit salad recipe and you’ll be close to living in the dimensions where I vacation on Sunderstday.
Federal data reveal that U.S. tariffs collected on tomatoes skyrocketed from just $16,424 in 2024 to nearly $4.6 million, a staggering 27,879% increase.
nononono i saw a very reputable meme of a minion wearing a MAGA hat on facebook saying that tariffs make things cheaper
FAKE NEWS
Tomatoes are easy to grow folks
They are super easy to grow, but when youre up north in the US you get a couple of months a year that youre actually getting tomatoes and when youre getting tomatoes, everyone else is getting them too. So everyone has them and just trying to get rid of them. Then comes November and you have thoughts of the wonderful summer and fresh tomatoes as the cold sets in.
Indoor is a thing
Americans are about to get a crash course in relearning home canning if they want to have year round access to seasonal fruits and vegetables.
And a lot of people will learn about botulism hands on.
I hope that more folks are taking community aid, mutual aid, and self-sufficiency seriously right now. Growing food and preserving it are difficult, but they’re not lost arts, it’s just that most who had to live like that (the generation of the Great Depression and war) are pretty much gone. People joke about preppers and homesteaders but as one of them I’ve found that it’s less crazy bunker builders and more people who’ve tried, failed, tried again passing on their skills/knowledge to the newbies who then try, fail a little less, and try again. Survival in a nation in decline is like oxygen masks in a crashing plane- secure yours first and then assist others who need the help. You’re no good to anyone else if you can’t take care of yourself.
If the options are a: americans learn how to can -or- b: americans starve to death. Im fully putting my money on b
The herd could use a good thinning.
whooo eugenics. all the rage right now.
Eugenics is about encouraging or discouraging reproduction to maximize or minimize genetic traits in a population. Food production and preservation is a learned skill. Starving to death because you won’t adapt to changing supply chains or figure out how to feed yourself with what’s available is a choice. My comment leans more towards an indifferent attitude towards the failure of large numbers of people to break their reliance on traditional capitalist structures and hierarchies. The people who choose to share with their neighbors are going to survive because of mutual aid, the others will continue to ride on the power of their wealth even if it gets less, or try and steal from those they think are weaker, but again, the power of mutual aid makes that a dangerous prospect. I plant more than I need for myself so I can share with neighbors, but I’d let my MAGA neighbor shrivel up and blow away rather than waste food on them. They made their choice, live and die by it.
More like natural selection
Stick the seeds in the ground and step back.
