Ten mistakes concerning tomatoes

Aug 15, 2010 20 Replies

The Armenian cukes got into trouble quickly, and this is in an area where I haven't grown corn or cucurbits before. The growing tips of the cukes look fine but from there on down it looks like wilt. The lemon cukes, next to the Armenians, look fine except that the zuchs, which I mistook for Romanesco cukes, are over shadowing them. The Romanesco cukes are growing slowly, but look healthy and are each producing at least a cuke a week, each. Going to have to go in and open up the zuch canopy today. Problem is, the zuchs are growing toward the cukes, so the canopy is where the latest foliage is. Stuffed zucchini in on the menu tonight, again. I feel like we are saving the planet, one zuch at a time ;O) Presently, we are having zucchini at least 2 - 3 times a week, pesto every 5 days, about the same for bruchetta, and salad everyday from the garden. Tomatoes are just coming on. Between the bruchetta and salad, we ate 6, 2" tomatoes last night.

The cherry tomatoes (Blondkopfchen[yellow] & Koralic[red]) are steadily producing, the (2)Glaciers have 3 or so a day between them, and the Stupice seems to have caught its breath and is producing again. The Marmande have several ripening to a deeper redness, and the Old German is starting to lose its solid green look and is taking on some yellow streaks. It's hard to tell how close the Zebras are, and the Brandywines are huge and dark green.

Not too bad for 6 hours full sun.

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