Today’s pick of Cherokee Purple, Big Rainbow, Green Zebra, Black Cherry, Tropical Sunset, Midnight Snack, and “wild cherry”
Today’s pick of Cherokee Purple, Big Rainbow, Green Zebra, Black Cherry, Tropical Sunset, Midnight Snack, and “wild cherry”
by ThePeoplesBard
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ThePeoplesBard
Biggest pick of the year, and I should have a couple more like it. You can see bad splitting or critter bites (mostly slugs) on the big slicers, but I’ll still cut around that and stew ’em. I know exactly what I have to do to protect them better next year. But isn’t it funny how life works? When I was younger, it was lack of knowledge that led to poor or low yields. Now I’m wise enough to know what needs to be done, but I have two kids and an insane job, so I don’t have the time or energy to do it right. Big lesson for myself is to grow less next year; better to care for many fewer plants appropriately than a ton of plants poorly.
Butterflyhornet
It looks like you can benefit from adding mulch next year.a lot of this, the mud and the slugs might be from having the soil uncovered and the tomatos close to the soil.
The critter bites, unfortunately I have to deal with as well. Picking them green with a little blushing helps a little. I put a woven bag over the unripe ones and that keeps the grasshoppers out.
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Biggest pick of the year, and I should have a couple more like it. You can see bad splitting or critter bites (mostly slugs) on the big slicers, but I’ll still cut around that and stew ’em. I know exactly what I have to do to protect them better next year. But isn’t it funny how life works? When I was younger, it was lack of knowledge that led to poor or low yields. Now I’m wise enough to know what needs to be done, but I have two kids and an insane job, so I don’t have the time or energy to do it right. Big lesson for myself is to grow less next year; better to care for many fewer plants appropriately than a ton of plants poorly.
It looks like you can benefit from adding mulch next year.a lot of this, the mud and the slugs might be from having the soil uncovered and the tomatos close to the soil.
The critter bites, unfortunately I have to deal with as well. Picking them green with a little blushing helps a little.
I put a woven bag over the unripe ones and that keeps the grasshoppers out.