Thankfully, some of my leaves are already starting to grow back on the bare
stems. Of course, now I'm paranoid and have been checking my plants twice a
day. LOL. Haven't seen any more of those nasty boogers. I've planted 1/2
and 1/2 det/indet varieties, so I've still got lots and lots of flowers and
fruits. This is a new garden area (square foot beds) and I don't have my
soil exactly right, but the 'maters were the best thing growing.

I'm about 30 miles south of Houston. How cool is it getting there at night?
We're still in the mid to upper 70's at night, so we don't get a chance to
cool down much at all. This heat wave has totally destroyed my attempt at
lettuce. What didn't wilt, scorched and burned.




B.Server wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:00:45 GMT, "Lisa"
wrote:

Yep -- insecticidal soap. Got mixed up. They ate the undersides of most
of
the green tomatoes, but on the plus side -- I've got lots of flowers on
the
stems they didn't manage to scarf down. We must have pulled off at least
10-15 of the things on about 4 plants. It was horrible. LOL -- I almost
cried.

Lisa

I see you have since posted that you are in SE Texas, so I am guessing
that you will have a tomato growing season until at least the end of
November. Plenty of time for the plants to recover. We have had cool
enough nights here in Austin that some of our tomatos are still
setting fruit even though they usually give up toward the end of June.
I often grow new plants and set them out during the first 2 weeks of
July for fall tomatos.