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Any one else have a bad tomato season?
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, Billy wrote: In article , "D. Arlington" wrote: "Dan Abel" wrote in message ... In article , "D. Arlington" wrote: Kris wrote: Hi all, I've been accessing my tomato patch this year with dismay. I've had few tomatoes compared to last year. What is also puzzling is that some plants are doing much better than ones right next to it! They all received the same amount of water. Someone told me there was "tomato blight" (not sure what that is) this year. We also had a record cold July, which didn't help I'm sure. Did anyone else experience this? Kris Late blight struck ours but many had already ripened by then, or were near ripe. I canned several dozen quarts, pints and half pints of sauce. I'll have enough to last us over a year. The freezer is full of greens and peppers. Also canned many quarts and pints of green and wax beans. Interesting. I live in an area that isn't great for tomatoes, although one of the biggest US tomato growing areas is less than 100 miles away. This year our big tomatoes ripened first, early and often. The first year I grew big tomatoes, they didn't ripen until November, and they were horrible ugly due to cracks and deformities. They are perfect this year. Or tomatoes seldom get really large for some reason. I get the soil checked, add what's needed, water, spray if necessary.... and still get tomatoes on the small side. I just grow more plants. The Roma's will reach full size but are very prone to early and late blight. Our summers are generally hot, humid and lacking in rainfall. Peppers do well here, especially the cowhorn/banana types. Also, the Japanese eggplant. -- Dan Abel Petaluma, California USA You in the Bloomfield Gap or near the estuary? Humid doesn't make any sense. I'm on the north side of a hill in Forestville and I get large Brandywines and Striped Germans, not many but some. I had some blossom end rot on my San Marzanos but it is a minor problem. Who are you responding to? You posted right underneath my name and address, but the text above that was from somebody who complained about humidity but didn't say where they lived. I've got no daytime humidity here in Petaluma, but the nights are cool (and the humidity is up but not stifling) so tomato plants don't always set fruit reliably. I'm not close to Bloomfield or the Russian River estuary, but rather right smack in the Petaluma Valley, in the flatlands within 1/2 mile of the Petaluma River (which isn't actually a river at all, since it is brackish water and flows backwards when the tide is coming in and there is no rain). -- Dan Abel Petaluma, California USA |