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Any one else have a bad tomato season?
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Gary Woods wrote: zxcvbob wrote: I've been having trouble with Late Blight for several years, but usually manage to get a crop anyway I had a heavy attack of late blight, encouraged by a cold wet summer here in upstate NY. Got enough tomatos for salad, but not for canning. I got a few "Silvery Fir Tree" fruits to preserve my seed supply at least.... I'm going to give the seeds a quick dilute Clorox bath after their usual fermenting/cleaning. All my plants are started from seed, but there are apparently enough spores about, despite my rural location, to infect everything in a year like this. I'm looking for suitable treatment for next year, with the emphasis on things that are proven to work. Organic preferred, but.... Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G It was a banner year for tomatoes in Seattle because we had a relatively hot and dry summer. Naturally, I didn't bother with tomatoes because of my abject failures in previous years. Although I think the rains of this weekend are about to drown any chance of a good late-season crop. Right now it looks more like Ithaca rain than Seattle rain. Cindy -- C.J. Fuller Delete the obvious to email me |
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Any one else have a bad tomato season?
"Cindy Fuller" wrote in message ... In article , Gary Woods wrote: zxcvbob wrote: I've been having trouble with Late Blight for several years, but usually manage to get a crop anyway I had a heavy attack of late blight, encouraged by a cold wet summer here in upstate NY. Got enough tomatos for salad, but not for canning. I got a few "Silvery Fir Tree" fruits to preserve my seed supply at least.... I'm going to give the seeds a quick dilute Clorox bath after their usual fermenting/cleaning. All my plants are started from seed, but there are apparently enough spores about, despite my rural location, to infect everything in a year like this. I'm looking for suitable treatment for next year, with the emphasis on things that are proven to work. Organic preferred, but.... Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G It was a banner year for tomatoes in Seattle because we had a relatively hot and dry summer. Naturally, I didn't bother with tomatoes because of my abject failures in previous years. Although I think the rains of this weekend are about to drown any chance of a good late-season crop. Right now it looks more like Ithaca rain than Seattle rain. Cindy -- C.J. Fuller Delete the obvious to email me Had a good year in So-Cal. Planted tomatoes with lots letters after the name. Not as tasty as previous years. I got tired of being hit with blight or whatever it is. The peppers are still going strong. Going to add more varieties next year. All in all a very good year. |
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Any one else have a bad tomato season?
Cindy -- C.J. Fuller Delete the obvious to email me Had a good year in So-Cal. Planted tomatoes with lots letters after the name. Not as tasty as previous years. I got tired of being hit with blight or whatever it is. The peppers are still going strong. Going to add more varieties next year. All in all a very good year. Had a so-so year in the eastern PA area. Despite late blight I had a decent amount of fruit on all 4 plants, but very slow ripening. The only thing that is producing at an OK rate are my yellow cherry tomatoes. Not sure how much longer things will keep ripening. Three of the plants are still flowering, so it's kind of hard to tell. Plus as a novice I don't know whether to call it a day or just hold on to some hope. Any opinions from you guys? Jon |
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Any one else have a bad tomato season?
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"Zeppo" wrote: Cindy -- C.J. Fuller Delete the obvious to email me Had a good year in So-Cal. Planted tomatoes with lots letters after the name. Not as tasty as previous years. I got tired of being hit with blight or whatever it is. The peppers are still going strong. Going to add more varieties next year. All in all a very good year. Had a so-so year in the eastern PA area. Despite late blight I had a decent amount of fruit on all 4 plants, but very slow ripening. The only thing that is producing at an OK rate are my yellow cherry tomatoes. Not sure how much longer things will keep ripening. Three of the plants are still flowering, so it's kind of hard to tell. Plus as a novice I don't know whether to call it a day or just hold on to some hope. Any opinions from you guys? Jon I am in Zone 5 South East Michigan. My tomatoes were great his year. Best crop in years. almost all of them blemish free, bug free, sweet and tasty. I have given up on the larger beefsteaks - the season is a little two short for this type of tomato in Michigan. It was a cooler than usual summer this year. I grew three types of tomatoes from seeds: 10 Roma plants, 10 Bonnie Best plants and 2 Cherry 100 plants. I grew the Romas and Bonnie best tomatoes in the main canning garden and the cherry tomatoes in the kitchen garden. I have canned so far: 14 pints of basic tomato sauce, 14 pints of tomato juice and ten pints of whole tomatoes. All of excellent taste, color and texture - better than anything that is in a typical supermarket. Tomorrow I will make salsa out of more tomatoes. A very good year for tomatoes. All for one and all for none other. But then the topic was "Any one else have a - BAD - tomato season" So - sorry for responding Corn - that is another story Enjoy Life ... Dan -- Garden in Zone 5 South East Michigan. |
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Any one else have a bad tomato season?
Zeppo wrote:
Cindy -- C.J. Fuller Delete the obvious to email me Had a good year in So-Cal. Planted tomatoes with lots letters after the name. Not as tasty as previous years. I got tired of being hit with blight or whatever it is. The peppers are still going strong. Going to add more varieties next year. All in all a very good year. Had a so-so year in the eastern PA area. Despite late blight I had a decent amount of fruit on all 4 plants, but very slow ripening. The only thing that is producing at an OK rate are my yellow cherry tomatoes. Not sure how much longer things will keep ripening. Three of the plants are still flowering, so it's kind of hard to tell. Plus as a novice I don't know whether to call it a day or just hold on to some hope. Any opinions from you guys? Jon Depends, Also in PA . Our plants had very low yield but the cherry tomatoes kicked in with the recent hot weather. If the nights stay mild you can count on more cherry tomatoes. |
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Any one else have a bad tomato season?
"George" wrote in message ... Zeppo wrote: Cindy -- C.J. Fuller Delete the obvious to email me Had a good year in So-Cal. Planted tomatoes with lots letters after the name. Not as tasty as previous years. I got tired of being hit with blight or whatever it is. The peppers are still going strong. Going to add more varieties next year. All in all a very good year. Had a so-so year in the eastern PA area. Despite late blight I had a decent amount of fruit on all 4 plants, but very slow ripening. The only thing that is producing at an OK rate are my yellow cherry tomatoes. Not sure how much longer things will keep ripening. Three of the plants are still flowering, so it's kind of hard to tell. Plus as a novice I don't know whether to call it a day or just hold on to some hope. Any opinions from you guys? Jon Depends, Also in PA . Our plants had very low yield but the cherry tomatoes kicked in with the recent hot weather. If the nights stay mild you can count on more cherry tomatoes. I might just give up and stop watering them, though it looks like I wont need to for at least the next 5 days or so. Fried green tomatoes is now on the menu. Jon |
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