[AT] OT: Re: test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)

[Rupert]

	Is it the wet cold weather that is causing that tomato blight? I had to 
throw out most of my larger tomatoes. The cherry tomatoes are fairing 
better.

Rupert

On 9/14/2010 10:52 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant Brians"<sales at heirloom-organic.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 3:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] test (apropos the Saskatechewan weather comment)
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>
>> Ralph, the scary part for me here in California is that we still do not
>> have
>> our first tomatoes ripe.... They are a big cost item to grow and I have no
>> fruit yet about to go into the third week of September! Why? Cool and wet
>> spring, then cool summer, now what about the fall? So far this year looks
>> like 1964 when the cannery tomatoes were still being harvested at almost
>> Christmas. I'm praying for a WARM fall without rain!
>>          Grant Brians
>>          Hollister,California
>>          Vegetable Farmer
>
> Grant, that sound like Sask. weather. As I mentioned to Charlie, the cold
> might save our crops from sprouting in the fields since they are too wet to
> combine.
> RE: tomatoes, they are a failure here this year. Some type of blight has
> struck and I don't know if I am going to get one edible tomato off the whole
> garden. Picked a few green ones to ripen in the house but they are starting
> to rot before they ripen or turn red. I've heard of other people having to
> throw all their out as the same thing happened. The problems of a wet year.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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