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Re: Paste tomato and corn questions

Richard wrote from Brooklyn,
>I am planning on planting some paste or roma type tomatoes this year and
>I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. Are these types of
>tomatoes determinate or indeterminate or both?

'Mama Mia' is absolutely terrific but very hard to find.  Loads of
blemish-free fruit on very productive vines.  Basically unfazed by diseases,
too.

Paste tomatoes tend to be listed as determinates (ripen all fruit in one big
flush, an obvious advantage for the canneries), but MM doesn't behave that
way at all.

Richard went on to query us about corn, but I'll bow out now as I've never
had enough room to do justice to a cornpatch.  The one year I tried it at a
community plot, we didn't get any rain between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Everything, corn included, was toast by late July.

--Janet

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