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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Yellow/Orange Tomatoes ripening better this year?
  • Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:50:59 -0400

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:50:01 -0400, you wrote:

>Anyone else have comments on their tomatoes?
>

I live in PA too, although in north-central PA - in the
Northern Tier. We had an incredibly cold wet spring, and
we've had a very wet summer, and cool for the most part.

I also have zillions of green tomatoes on incredibly huge,
lush, healthy plants. One of the cherry tomatoes (caged) is
threatening to break it's *rebar* support stakes....

My Early Girls have FINALLY started to ripen and we've had
a few ripe Sweet Million cherries. But - considering that I
got them transplanted out into the garden way early, and
they were very large plants by then - this is incredibly
late.

I'm disappointed in the taste of both the Early Girls and
the Sweet Millions - blah, boring, and bland. I don't know
if this is the excessive water they've received, or it's
their nature. But I don't think I'll grow either one again.

I'm growing Better Boy for the 'big' tomato this year: none
ripe. Maybe there won't be any ripe before frost (the first
week in October in this area).

Pat




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