"Laura at theGardenPages" wrote:

I had a similar experience with sweet 100. I liked the red pear
tomatoes better, but I don't recall the name. I know they are bigger
than the grapes, but I didn't get so overwhelmed towards the end of the
season.

FYI, cracked tomatoes can sometimes be caused by uneven watering. If
the plants get dried out and then are given too much water the fruit
expands too fast and cracks the skin open.
Laura

It could have been the year--that may have been a rainy year. Other
plants in the patch didn't seem water stressed(too much/too
little)--actually did very well. Last year I had a lot of problem with
cracking on heirlooms, but that was due to my job taking all my time
It was also a new planting ground, although I gave the tomatoes the
best pickings.

They also dropped a lot of ripe fruit. Which was frustrating to see
ripe fruit dropped yet split and moldy fruit still stuck on the vine
squashed against new healthy ones.

DigitalVinyl wrote:
I grew a sweet 100 the other year and found the vast amount of waste
discouraging. Lots of popped fruit, rotting on the vine, tomatoes
dropping from the plant as ai harvest, a black sea of squirming ants
under the plant. It reseeded like crazy.

Anybody have a grape-sized tomato plant that has a more useful yield?


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DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
4th year gardener
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