Comments on: wet-year tomato troubles: the plot sickens http://awaytogarden.com/wet-year-tomato-troubles-the-plot-sickens Gardening information and inspiration from Margaret Roach Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:29:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Margaret http://awaytogarden.com/wet-year-tomato-troubles-the-plot-sickens/comment-page-1#comment-11326 Margaret Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:57:41 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=5855#comment-11326 Welcome, Leslie. Yes, hah, some year for the experiment on both our parts (in "hydroponic" tomatoes here, in other tortures there). So sorry. But we gardeners, we just try again next year, don't we? :) See you soon! Welcome, Leslie. Yes, hah, some year for the experiment on both our parts (in “hydroponic” tomatoes here, in other tortures there). So sorry. But we gardeners, we just try again next year, don’t we? :) See you soon!

]]> By: Leslie http://awaytogarden.com/wet-year-tomato-troubles-the-plot-sickens/comment-page-1#comment-11318 Leslie Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:39:18 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=5855#comment-11318 I'm in PNW too, near Mt. Rainier - this was my "heirloom tomato experiment" year - hah. Even getting them started indoors in Feb. only a couple varieties have set fruit, and no telling yet if some of that will ripen enough to get tomatoes and seeds for next year. Even the Early Girls have not made a good showing and they have BER to boot. Oh well. The beans and zukes are going great...will just buy fresh from the farmer's market and canned for winter this year. I’m in PNW too, near Mt. Rainier – this was my “heirloom tomato experiment” year – hah. Even getting them started indoors in Feb. only a couple varieties have set fruit, and no telling yet if some of that will ripen enough to get tomatoes and seeds for next year. Even the Early Girls have not made a good showing and they have BER to boot. Oh well. The beans and zukes are going great…will just buy fresh from the farmer’s market and canned for winter this year.

]]> By: Margaret http://awaytogarden.com/wet-year-tomato-troubles-the-plot-sickens/comment-page-1#comment-11051 Margaret Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:02:13 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=5855#comment-11051 Welcome, Dori. I have so many gardening friends in the PNW, and all are in pain after the freakish winter followed by this impossible drought. I am so sorry. Hope we see you soon again, anyway...we can all just complain together and commiserate. :) Welcome, Dori. I have so many gardening friends in the PNW, and all are in pain after the freakish winter followed by this impossible drought. I am so sorry. Hope we see you soon again, anyway…we can all just complain together and commiserate. :)

]]> By: Dori http://awaytogarden.com/wet-year-tomato-troubles-the-plot-sickens/comment-page-1#comment-11048 Dori Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:43:05 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=5855#comment-11048 Oh, how I long for some of your rain! I'm on Whidbey Island in Washington and this has been one of the driest summers ever. We had the lightest of showers this morning but all it did was add humidity. I'll be turning on the soakers once again. Sorry about your tomato rot! Usually that is the scurge of our gardens! Strange weather! Oh, how I long for some of your rain! I’m on Whidbey Island in Washington and this has been one of the driest summers ever. We had the lightest of showers this morning but all it did was add humidity. I’ll be turning on the soakers once again. Sorry about your tomato rot! Usually that is the scurge of our gardens! Strange weather!

]]> By: Margaret http://awaytogarden.com/wet-year-tomato-troubles-the-plot-sickens/comment-page-1#comment-11035 Margaret Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:36:37 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=5855#comment-11035 Welcome, Judy. Sounds like you have Nitrogen galore! And yes, never a dull moment. Glad you sister put us in touch, and hope that we will see you again here soon. Welcome Lindsay. I think we had interference with pollination, as I said in the post...I have now cut up and cooked maybe 20 such fruits, and only 2 others had this situation with the decaying seeds. So I am having a little harvest now, better than nothing, and hope to at least get to put up half of my usual tomato sauce. We shall see. Again, don't give up; this isn't the devastating late blight or anything, at least not yet. :) Welcome, Judy. Sounds like you have Nitrogen galore! And yes, never a dull moment. Glad you sister put us in touch, and hope that we will see you again here soon.

Welcome Lindsay. I think we had interference with pollination, as I said in the post…I have now cut up and cooked maybe 20 such fruits, and only 2 others had this situation with the decaying seeds. So I am having a little harvest now, better than nothing, and hope to at least get to put up half of my usual tomato sauce. We shall see. Again, don’t give up; this isn’t the devastating late blight or anything, at least not yet. :)

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