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dixiegrrrrl

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32. About those tomatoes

Tue Jul 3, 2012, 03:02 PM

Jul 2012

one reason I buy growing starts at the feed store in March..
down here, tomatoes don't "set" once evening temps hit 70.
which happens in June now.
The cherry tomaotes are very prolific in hotter weather, but the bigger tomatoes now need part shade
to grow, and stop producing early in our increasing heat.
So I cut the bigger tomatoes down, to about 8 inches of the stalk, keep them in the shade, lightly watered, till evening temps go back down, they grow and set, and I get a fall crop from them.
And also have to spray for blight in the spring..a homemade organic spray.
It has worked well for last 3 years.

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