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$500 a plate spaghetti sauce
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? |
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$500 a plate spaghetti sauce
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 |
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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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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 |
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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. -- Billy Bush and Pelosi Behind Bars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTf...ef=patrick.net http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1009916.html |
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"General Schvantzkopf" wrote in message . .. 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? Don't feel too bad. I have a friend in Maine whose plants rotted out with all the rain. I don't think they harvested more than a basket full of veggies. We had an infestation of whitefly and 2-spotted spider mite the likes of which the ag agent has never seen before. One of the 3 gardens were wiped out. Every pepper and tomato plant was destroyed. The cukes and the cantaloupes and the winter squash were also attacked. No insecticide, either organic or chemical worked. We are getting tomatoes, beans, chard and other veggies from the other 2 gardens though. The collards are so infested with whitefly as to be inedible. |
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"General Schvantzkopf" wrote in message . .. 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. |
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"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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General Schvantzkopf said:
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. My peas always die in July. (And the spring lettuces that are left alway bolt.) Always. This year we have had adequate heat and adequate rain to mid-July. Then the free water stopped so it's all been irrigation since. The sweet corn has been fantastic (no earworms, no bird damage). The tomatoes have been great, ripening in a steady stream, except now I'm getting some BER, what with the lack of rain. Some leaf spotting showing up on the tomatoes in cages, but the staked tomatoe are OK. Pole beans have hit a lull, but should pick up again (especially if we get some rain). Peppers ok, but the damned pepper maggots are back hard this year. Should have sprayed for them. Summer squashes have done really well. Pulled one that looked diseased, otherwise no sign of squash vine borer. Hitting the stems every day or so with pyrethrum spray (once they got too bulky to hand-pick the borer eggs) seems to have worked. Or maybe we just didn't have as many moths this year. Or both... Winter squashes have spread all around. Lots of green ones here and there. Don't notice any butternuts, though, just Rumba and Tetsukabuto, and I've only spotted one jack o'lantern pumpkin. Onions have been good, leeks are sizing up, got some decent looking kohlrabi out there, and one cabbage that grew from a seed in the kohlrabi package that's really tiny. Have no idea what the celeriac are doing under the ground (that's an experiment) and the potatoes I felt for seemed small. The potato plants have already mostly died back. There are two beds cleared and prepped for fall lettuce and bok choi, and the plants are well started in 3" square pots. Just want it to rain, or at least have a good promise of rain, or even a *really cloudy* day, before I transplant them out. July was solid torrential rain, and August has been cold which is why the plants think it's fall. I'm seeing some trees coloring up early, probably because it's been so dry lately and all that leaf surface is more a liability than an asset, with the days already growing rapidly shorter. I'm in Massachusetts near Lowell and Nashua. Has anyone around here had better results than these? I'm in Michigan, where I guess it has been a better summer than yours, mostly. -- Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast) After enlightenment, the laundry. |
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says... 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? http://www.seedsofchange.com/enewsle..._gardeners.asp They're in Maine. |
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$500 a plate spaghetti sauce
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? I was gonna say... This year I have pretty much decided that it might not be worthwhile to grow tomatoes--esp. since I do have access to a nice selection of heirloom ones grown nearby (in Concord, Mass.). This has been an exceptionally nasty summer though. -- Jean B. |
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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 |
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"Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message ... I'm seeing some trees coloring up early, probably because it's been so dry lately and all that leaf surface is more a liability than an asset, with the days already growing rapidly shorter. They're not only coloring up early here in TN but dropping their leaves as well. It looks more like late October than late August. This has been a very dry summer. We got less than 2" of rain this last time - the first rain in over a month. |
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