General Schvantzkopf wrote:
I've had my worst harvest ever, the only thing that did well this year was
my blueberry bushes and my cucumbers. Most of my tomato plants died, those
that didn't have only produced enough tomatoes for a couple of quarts of
sauce (thus the $500/plate estimate). I don't think the remaining tomatoes
are going to ripen because the plants think it's fall (the leaves on my
blueberry bushes have already turned color). My corn isn't maturing
either, I've got small ears with missing kernels. The peas and beans all
died in July. July was solid torrential rain, and August has been cold
which is why the plants think it's fall.

I'm in Massachusetts near Lowell and Nashua. Has anyone around here had
better results than these?


Did you at least have a couple of tomato sandwiches or BLT's? I can't
imagine *cooking* a small tomato crop when store-bought canned tomatoes
are as good (and cheap) as they are.

Bob

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:20:11 -0500, zxcvbob wrote:

General Schvantzkopf wrote:
I've had my worst harvest ever, the only thing that did well this year
was my blueberry bushes and my cucumbers. Most of my tomato plants
died, those that didn't have only produced enough tomatoes for a couple
of quarts of sauce (thus the $500/plate estimate). I don't think the
remaining tomatoes are going to ripen because the plants think it's
fall (the leaves on my blueberry bushes have already turned color). My
corn isn't maturing either, I've got small ears with missing kernels.
The peas and beans all died in July. July was solid torrential rain,
and August has been cold which is why the plants think it's fall.

I'm in Massachusetts near Lowell and Nashua. Has anyone around here had
better results than these?


Did you at least have a couple of tomato sandwiches or BLT's? I can't
imagine *cooking* a small tomato crop when store-bought canned tomatoes
are as good (and cheap) as they are.

Bob

Actually the cherry tomatoes are doing OK, I've been eating a handful of
them every day, it's the large tomatoes that I grow for sauce. The large
tomatoes are getting no where.

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General Schvantzkopf wrote:

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:20:11 -0500, zxcvbob wrote:

General Schvantzkopf wrote:
I've had my worst harvest ever, the only thing that did well this year
was my blueberry bushes and my cucumbers. Most of my tomato plants
died, those that didn't have only produced enough tomatoes for a couple
of quarts of sauce (thus the $500/plate estimate). I don't think the
remaining tomatoes are going to ripen because the plants think it's
fall (the leaves on my blueberry bushes have already turned color). My
corn isn't maturing either, I've got small ears with missing kernels.
The peas and beans all died in July. July was solid torrential rain,
and August has been cold which is why the plants think it's fall.

I'm in Massachusetts near Lowell and Nashua. Has anyone around here had
better results than these?


Did you at least have a couple of tomato sandwiches or BLT's? I can't
imagine *cooking* a small tomato crop when store-bought canned tomatoes
are as good (and cheap) as they are.

Bob

Actually the cherry tomatoes are doing OK, I've been eating a handful of
them every day, it's the large tomatoes that I grow for sauce. The large
tomatoes are getting no where.

See post to phorbin.
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"General Schvantzkopf" wrote in message
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Actually the cherry tomatoes are doing OK, I've been eating a handful of
them every day, it's the large tomatoes that I grow for sauce. The large
tomatoes are getting no where.

Next year you may want to select tomatoes more tolerant to cool weather. See
if that helps.

In article ,
zxcvbob wrote:

General Schvantzkopf wrote:
I've had my worst harvest ever, the only thing that did well this year was
my blueberry bushes and my cucumbers. Most of my tomato plants died, those
that didn't have only produced enough tomatoes for a couple of quarts of
sauce (thus the $500/plate estimate). I don't think the remaining tomatoes
are going to ripen because the plants think it's fall (the leaves on my
blueberry bushes have already turned color). My corn isn't maturing
either, I've got small ears with missing kernels. The peas and beans all
died in July. July was solid torrential rain, and August has been cold
which is why the plants think it's fall.

I'm in Massachusetts near Lowell and Nashua. Has anyone around here had
better results than these?

Did you at least have a couple of tomato sandwiches or BLT's? [...]

Oh my gosh that reminds me that we haven't done that yet. What have I
been thinking? My kingdom for some really good bacon...

Isabella
--
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
-T.S. Eliot

"Isabella Woodhouse" wrote in message
...

Oh my gosh that reminds me that we haven't done that yet. What have I
been thinking? My kingdom for some really good bacon...

You eat fatty salty poison loaded bacon? Do you know about all the poisoned
preservatives they use in Bacon, all the salt and how dangerous the fat is?
You're eating pure poison. ;-)


Isabella
--
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
-T.S. Eliot

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"Marie Dodge" wrote:

"Isabella Woodhouse" wrote in message
...

Oh my gosh that reminds me that we haven't done that yet. What have I
been thinking? My kingdom for some really good bacon...

You eat fatty salty poison loaded bacon? Do you know about all the poisoned
preservatives they use in Bacon, all the salt and how dangerous the fat is?
You're eating pure poison. ;-)

Like I said in my other post, we buy uncured bacon--- from pastured pigs
when we can get it. No poison, no preservatives. I also use properly
rendered lard (when I can get it). Imagine that. We don't eat poison
in our home. We eat real food.
--
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
-T.S. Eliot