On 7/8/2014 6:43 PM, John wrote:
No tomatoes this year

Wiped out the cherry tomato plants and the larger varieties aren't
producing much of anything. Two different nurseries and the same
results. Looking it up on the net evidently its the same fungus that
caused the Irish potato famine.

Everything else (except cabbage, lost 1/2 the plants, no roots? ) is
doing well at least. Cucumbers coming out our ears. Peppers and onions
doing great.

From SW PA

John


As a followup some of the tomato plants rebounded, horribly gnarled
stems and all, and are actually producing a lot of fruit, all getting
ripe at the same time of course! The large tomatoes are actually very
tiny, about golf ball sized (?) but pretty good eating.

Hungarian wax hot peppers just love it here, canned 24 quarts of pepper
rings yesterday. Still plenty out there but need a few more weeks to get
large enough to pick. I only put in 4 dozen plants and should get that
many quarts when done. We have also made a pepper, olive, garlic & spice
mix in oil. Great as a side with a lunch time sandwich.

Bell peppers doing very well too but not quite ready yet. Best (I think)
when the fruit just begins to turn red, a good mix of crisp green &
sweet red.

Cukes & zucs are done except for some late planted zucs just beginning
to produce.

The few onions I planted are either gone for green onions or overgrown
by other plants. What is left I will leave to winter after the peppers
are done and the plants pulled.

A small garden in SW PA,

John