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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

The soil is terrible, I have worked hard on it and am preparing an area for 
the spring (different than where now planeted)'takes time & lots of work.  

Shade cloth wouldn't help I don't think, for fall --use it much toward late 
spring/summer; plants are not wilty, the sun itself isn't that bad (not to 
me, anyway) But the ambient temperature is still around 100 degrees.

My tallest palnt right now is 3 feet high, most are little under two foot, 
they spread a bit.  They will grow taller, have been planted for about 4 - 5 
weeks, but most time was way too hot.

I have several peppers, 4 okra and a quash.  Okra has big , pretty flowers.

..........bobford


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tomatoes not fruiting
> To: "Homestead List" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 3:06 PM
> Bob, set up a shade cloth to tent the toms and if you can
> spare the water, mist the tent.  This should drop the temps
> under the tent and in time, you should get some tomatoes.
> Just out of curiosity...
> my vines grow taller than I can reach, as tall as I can
> support them.  How tall do desert tomatoes grow?  Also, is
> your soil that bad that you have to use miracle grow?  Do
> you not have a compost pile? manure teas?
> 
> Akka Homestead wrote:
> > Tomatoes won't set blooms in temps over 95
> degrees.  Apparently, the high temperature kills/alters the
> sperm, um, pollen. :)
> > Akka
> > 
> > bob ford wrote:
> >> I have 24 tomato plants, all kind of varieties. 
> They are all very
> >> healthy, growing, and have had blossoms for a
> while.  But, I'm hardly
> >> getting any tomatoes, just a very few on 2-3
> plants.  It is right at
> >> 100 degrees today; yesterday was hotter
> 
> 
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