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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
We had our first hard frost here in SW Pennsylvania just this morning. But my Better Boy variety tomatoes had shriveled up and quite producing more than one month ago. A family friend was still getting production from his Early Girl variety until just last night.

Generally, I have a bucket or more of green tomatoes to pick before the first frost. I wrap them in newspaper and let them ripen off the vine. I'm still pulling ripened tomatoes out of the bucket until mid-November, sometimes even longer. But not this year.

I've read that there's another variety of the noxious stink bug which is supposed to be moving here by next summer. Maybe a hard winter is just what we need to slow the invasion.

13 posted on 10/25/2013 1:09:41 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman
A family friend was still getting production from his Early Girl variety until just last night.

My Early Girl wilted badly in the Tx heat of August but since about mid-Sept its made somewhat of a comeback. I cut back many dead branches and leaves, gave it lots of water, compost and now I got a few green 'maters on the vines and some more tiny ones in the buds. Maybe it goes along for another 2-3 weeks before old frosty shows up. Its all a bonus at this point.

57 posted on 10/25/2013 4:52:52 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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