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Re: tomato cracks, bitter cucumbers

I find this true. For the last couple of years we have always picked our
tomatoes when they go pink. I put a card table up with a cover in the
dark corner of the back room and they do very well there.  Also
we too, have learned to pick cucumbers as early as is feasible as
they are sweeter. We've had a drier summer this year and yet our
cucumbers do remain sweet but have a tendency to  have those
smiley face holes where the seeds were but have shrunk.
Barbara
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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:09:16 -0500 Martin Halterman
<mhalterman@HALNET.COM> writes:
>Mark, I have been told that you can pick the tomatoes just when they
>start
>to go pink to avoid the splitting...As far as the cukes, I was told to
>not
>let them grow so large- pick earlier and they are sweeter.
>

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