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Old 19-06-2010, 08:39 PM posted to rec.gardens
David E. Ross[_2_] David E. Ross[_2_] is offline
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Default The curse of BER

On 6/18/10 10:24 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote [in part]:

I mean those plants do
grow in the wild and surely a consistently moist soil is not something they
enjoy. I can see BER is more of a challenge in container gardening.

Paul


I'm quite sure you will not find tomato plants of the type you want
growing in the wild. Even heritage tomatoes represent decades or
centuries of selective breeding.

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