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Best tomato year since the Reagan administration
General Schvantzkoph said:
I'm in Massachusetts. Is everyone else having a good year also? Weather started out pretty wet, then turned hot and very dry -- August was disasterous. I have a theory that the wet spring and early summer led to underdeveloped root systems, leaving the plants less able to cope with the dramatic shift in moisture. (I wasn't able to do enough watering to make up for the lack of rain.) The pole beans stopped setting and dropped a ton of leaves and I lost the last planting of sweet corn. (We had the first Labor Day without sweet corn and pole beans in many years.) The SunSugar and grapes tomatoes were OK; for the sauce tomatoes I had my smallest harvest in many years, and the slicers tapered off to almost nothing. Zuchinnis and cucumbers never recovered from the attack of cucumber beetles that happend in early June (while I was out of state). Cabbage is dwarfed (wilting every day must do that to them). -- Pat in Plymouth MI "Vegetables are like bombs packed tight with all kinds of important nutrients..." --Largo Potter, Valkyria Chronicles email valid but not regularly monitored |
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Best tomato year since the Reagan administration
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, Pat Kiewicz wrote: General Schvantzkoph said: I'm in Massachusetts. Is everyone else having a good year also? Weather started out pretty wet, then turned hot and very dry -- August was disasterous. I have a theory that the wet spring and early summer led to underdeveloped root systems, leaving the plants less able to cope with the dramatic shift in moisture. (I wasn't able to do enough watering to make up for the lack of rain.) The pole beans stopped setting and dropped a ton of leaves and I lost the last planting of sweet corn. (We had the first Labor Day without sweet corn and pole beans in many years.) The SunSugar and grapes tomatoes were OK; for the sauce tomatoes I had my smallest harvest in many years, and the slicers tapered off to almost nothing. Zuchinnis and cucumbers never recovered from the attack of cucumber beetles that happend in early June (while I was out of state). Cabbage is dwarfed (wilting every day must do that to them). Cold summer here in northern California but everything has been producing for the last month. Glacier tomatoes were a sight for sore eyes, but they don't have much taste. Think I'll stick with Stupice next year for my early tomatoes. Old German is producing some softball size tomatoes, and the Green Zebras and Blondkopfchen (cherry) are tart and good for salads. I'm still waiting on the Brandywines, and the Gold Medals. Best crop we've ever had for sweet peppers, Quadrato di Asti, Corno di Toro, Giant Szgedi, and Yellow Wax. We are still waiting for the Quadrato to turn red, before we start harvesting them. Nothing like grilled, red bell pepper. The Corno di Toro, and Giant Szgedi are sauteed as a side dish, and the Yellow wax go fresh into salads. Rascally Raccoon scratched out half of the potatoes, but the potatoes with tomato cages are doing fine, and going dormant now. Great year for lettuce. The sugar pumpkin initially headed south, until it ran into the shade from our fence, now has doubled back heading east, looking like it's going to make a break for it;O) Bad year for the cukes, but that was because I was having brain farts. The zuchs have settled down, and we don't have to eat them every night (Gott sei dank). Already laying out the 2011 garden plan. Crop rotation is really hard, because I grow 3 Solanaceae, and there is only so much good light in the yard. The temptation is to follow Solanum with Capsicum this year, and then I'll have it mostly sorted out after that. -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html |
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