"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:56:07 +1000, FarmI wrote:
"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message
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This has been the best year that I've had for tomatoes since the 1980s,
it's more than made up for last year's disaster. The most prolific
plants have been the Sugar Snacks which have produced many hundreds of
tomatoes. The Grape and Sun Gold Cherrys are also producing countless
tomatoes, the Tellow Pears are also doing OK but not as well as the
Sugar Snacks, Sun Golds and Grapes. My large varieties are just now
starting to ripen but they are all heavy with tomatoes. The first to
start ripening have been the Cherokee Purples, but now I'm getting
Black Princes and Cosmonaut Volkov's. I started the Black Princes and
Cosmonaut Volkov's from seed, this is the first time that I've been
successful doing that.

The hot dry weather gets most of the credit, but the other thing that's
different this year is that I covered my garden with a horse manure
mulch.

My cucumbers and corn are also doing well, they both failed completely
last year. The disappointment has been my blueberry bushes, last year
in they produced so many berries that I still have a freezer full of
them, this year I only got berries for a couple of weeks.

I'm in Massachusetts. Is everyone else having a good year also?

Do you mean for the first summer period of the year or the second one?
I did average for the first summer period of the year and I've not yet
planted for the second summer period so I can't forecast how my toms
will go then. I expect I'll get some cherry toms before the end of the
calendar year though.

What do you mean by second summer period?

The summer that starts on 1 December 2010 (as oppossed to the first summer
period of the year which was in January and February 2010).

Where do you live? In New
England it's always touch and go about having enough time for one crop to
come in before it turns cold.

I live in the Southern Hemisphere.