Crop failure in So Cal
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- Subject: Crop failure in So Cal
- From: N* S*
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 22:22:09 -0700
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Well, it is finally Fall here in San Diego and though our growing
season is 355 days (actually, it is 364, but my yard gets a bit too
cold to grow much in those additional 9 days), I still have some time
to be productive. Problem is, I've been tremendously un productive.
At least, my tomatoes have. I don't have enough garden beds to
rotate the solanums each year, so I planted a cover crop of grasses
and legumes last fall. harvested them, and then planted my favorite
tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. The eggplants did well, teh peppers
did okay, but I've yet to harvest a single tomato! The plants look
awful -- leaves shriveled and died, didn't produce. I just can't
figure it out. If it were a solanum problem, the eggplant and
peppers should have suffered.
Any ideas?
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Nan Sterman
San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
