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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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Cindy

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C.J. Fuller

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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

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Cindy

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C.J. Fuller

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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

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Garden in Zone 5 South East Michigan.
Here in the UK my outdoor tomatoes have all been killed off by late blight, but those in the greenhouse have done reasonably well lots of fruit but are now only starting to ripen.
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Cindy

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C.J. Fuller

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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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Zeppo wrote:
Cindy

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C.J. Fuller

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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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