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Tomato Question

Hi Folks!
I haven't written to the list in a while, it's been way too cold in Iowa to
think about gardening!
However, it's getting close to time to start thinking about a seed order
and I hope You can help me with a question.
Last season ALL of our tomatoes were rather ill and yields very poor and
not very tasty at all.
The spring was very cold, late in coming and rainy.
The summer hot and dry.
All of our plants (10 varieties and several locations) were stunted and the
new leaves were wrapped up and hard (like little "fists")
Could this be a disease or just the terrible weather?
The only variety that did fairly well was "Sweeet 100"
I'm wondering if a particular variety would be better or just to plant an
assortment and hope the year is better.
We also added a lot of peat and topsoil to our VERY clay soil, the PH
tested almost neutral.
We use all raised beds.
Tomatoes have always been a very good crop for us and this is puzzling!
Any Ideas?????


Thanks
Don and Barb Sanderson
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