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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Tomatoes and Irene
  • Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:33:28 -0400

Striped German. Black Prince need to pick a little under ripe before it splits.  Orange Banana hasn’t had as much blossom end rot as in the past.  Speckled Roman, Djena Lee. Polish Linguisa but it doesn’t sell well.

 

Thought power was back after 8 hours, but is is coming and going so will unplug again after this quick round of email.  Over 6 inches rain but not gully washing.  We started our really really dry.  Wind wasn’t all that bad, but hated the hoophouse plastic whipping deflated with no power.  Broilers OK in battened down field pens so I know the rain soaked in rather than ponding too badly (though walking out to the broilers was very slushy).  Ducks seemed to enjoy it.  Haven’t looked in the field yet.

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY

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"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry

"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe

 

 


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Michael Libsch
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:57 PM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Market-farming Digest, Vol 103, Issue 25

 

Like many of you, I have been forced to take a day off by Irene. I hope that everyone's farms and gardens are faring well in the storm.

Since this is tomato season, I wanted to ask people which heirloom varieties they have been having success with this summer.

I live in upstate NY where we have a late spring and a warm summer. This year the spring and early summer were rainy. July was very dry and August has been quite rainy.

The varieties that have had the fewest disease problems and least splitting in my garden include: Orange banana, Speckled Roman Paste, Green Zebra, and Brandy wine, and Pineapple. Probably in that order. The first 2 which are paste tomatoes have been very resistant to splitting.

Varieties that have not done well include Cherokee Purple - plants and fruit very diseased with many black spots, Nyagous - almost all fruit split badly, and Beauty Queen- lots of splitters. Most of my cherry tomatoes have also split- I grow Sungold, 5 star grape, Lollipop, and Yellow Pear.

Thanks for your input.

Best,

Mike
New Leaf Farm


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