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Re: Tomato Question

Last year I experienced much the same thing here in southeastern
Pennsylvania which I attribute to the weather.  Your description in Iowa
almost matches mine.

Tomatoes were delayed and yielded poorly.  Have you tried Roma?  It
seemed to do somewhat better, although internal rot occurred in some
tomatoes during the late harvest.

The tight wrapping of leaves is probably a fungus due to the damp
weather.  Many times it will reverse if the air beomes dry.

Bill o;-)
wnryan@juno.com

On Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:42:45 -0600 Don Sanderson <donsan5@EARTHLINK.NET>
writes:
>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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