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

[Bob McNitt]

  Cornell University said that was the case this year - once people 
started planting, it turned cool & wet. However, cherry & grape tomatoes 
are more resistant.

On 9/15/2010 5:57 PM, Rupert wrote:
> 	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)
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> AT mailing list
>> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>>