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Post by jtcm05 on Aug 15, 2008 10:43:20 GMT -5
Are those carrots or Queen Anne's Lace?  Is all that damage from the rain? It's just sad. Definitely carrots, but Queen's anne lace is a member of the same family as carrots.  Yes, tons of rain and humidity this season.  Well, all is not lost. I'm still getting many tomatoes...  |
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Post by stratcat on Aug 15, 2008 11:12:27 GMT -5
Glad to see you're getting a crop, John. Those tomatoes look good. Late yesterday I was poking around my sorry-looking plants and see they have set some tiny fruit lately behind my back. I expect the end of September or beginning of October to get some fresh, ripe ones! I usually end up planting some tomatoes in containers later than the main crop even though they get more shade. This gives me a better chance of missing some of the heat and humidity and still getting a few. Per Seed to Seed, Queen Anne's Lace crosses readily with carrots if you're a seed saver. john |
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Post by canadamike on Aug 15, 2008 13:00:46 GMT -5
Queen Anne's Lace IS carrot, as simple as that, DAUCUS CAROTA, the ancestor of our modern friend, frokm which selection was made.
I am happy for you John, at least all is not lost as you wrote.
They are forecsting many days of nice weather here, so I expect some red maters to come out next week or so, the 5 that I picked where the only ones with any color... but at least taste was very good, not watery at all.
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Post by stratcat on Aug 15, 2008 13:49:48 GMT -5
Queen Anne's tastes like our carrots, too.
I grew a 5'9" one in my backyard in 2006 for the townsfolk to complain about and they did! hehehe ;D
john
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Post by kctomato on Aug 15, 2008 14:15:33 GMT -5
Just like German's love David Hasselhof...
disease organisms love charged soils
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Post by canadamike on Aug 15, 2008 14:45:46 GMT -5
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Post by spud on Sept 3, 2008 21:22:47 GMT -5
Hope your mator harvest is going better. Wierd that you were getting nonstop rain and we've have about a half inch since July 5. I've gotten over a bushel so far with some plants not given me any ripe ones yet. My pineapple beefstake hasn't given me a one and my tennessee green spears has only given me a half dozen or so. Thank goodness for my first lady two and lemon boy, you can count on them for both quality and good taste too. Can't wait for that pineapple to ripen since it's a new variety. This has been my best year for peppers ever and I contribute that to the comfrey tea that I put on them and my mators.
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Post by canadamike on Sept 5, 2008 17:48:32 GMT -5
It's harvest time for me now, they are ripening. I had to do spome trimming to walk between the isles last week and disease has zeroed in like Mr. Evil Lizard man on a bad idea. All but the Spudakees are sick. I don't care, plants are loaded and it's ripening.
My first ABSINTHE was delicious, so was COPIA. The 2 are amazing to look at together in a plate. BLACK ELEPHANT is very prolific, beautiful large maters, but the best tasting ones are, for the moment, JAPANESE BLACK TRIFELE.
I will grow a lot of these next year to can, along with others, mostly italian style canners.
I'll have seeds of another fantastic french one, ORANGE BOURGUOIN, a delicious sweet very large cherry/saladette with trusses of 7to9 1.5-2 ounces beauties.
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Post by ohiorganic on Sept 26, 2008 5:57:19 GMT -5
We had a pretty crappy tomato year. sold no canning maters (used them all myself) despite planting 25 additional plants over last year, the yields were so low.
The weather started cool and rainy than in late July is dried up and got hot and humid and now it is warm and dry with no humidity, like the desert.
like most everyone else we had a cool wet spring which was great for the early tomatoes in the hoop house which did very very well-we had our first maters by July 4th and beat everyone by 3 weeks at market with our early tomatoes. grew yellow taxi, early Girl and Matina which is the best tasting tomato I have ever grown. Unfortunately it is small like a moscovich so not easy to sell (people want big red orbs just like at the grocery store). the main crops was 25 different maters. The best yeilders were home bred seeds. Cherrywine a pink cherry that is a sunsugar x pink brandywine, did well and did not succumb to early and late blight. Boulder belt striped came on great early got blighted than started to grow out of the blight about 3 weeks ago and started producing a late crop. The GL-18 (nice OP red tomato I saved from extinction about 10 years ago) did well for about 4 weeks but like about everything else got late blight and gave up.
Tried a white called great white and it did decently-low yields of huge (1LB+) white maters that have great taste. Saved seed from those puppies
Created a new tomato by accident but have saved seed and will spend the next 5 to 7 years stabilizing it-green pear. I have no idea where this came from as I have not grown green maters on this farm (the past 3 seasons). They came up with the yellow pear and taste much much better than yellow pear. I guess I grew something last year that has green genes and they were passed to the yellow pears seed I saved.
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Post by Jim on Sept 26, 2008 18:08:19 GMT -5
Ohioorganic that is awesome. A green pear would be cool.
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Post by winter unfazed on Sept 27, 2008 12:02:22 GMT -5
Right here it's been the best tomato year ever. And that's not sarcasm!
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Is all that damage from the rain? It's just sad.
Yes, tons of rain and humidity this season. 
