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To: greeneyes

Interested in hearing everybody’s favorite tomato variety. I love Cherokee purple, mortgage lifter, a good beefsteak. So do the deer. :(

The past several years my production has gone way down. I end up with plants that just look diseased. It has been frustrating as I have thought it was soil nutrition/minerals. I need to build raised beds so I can start with fresh soil.


33 posted on 04/21/2018 5:00:41 AM PDT by Dartoid
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To: Dartoid

Do you practice crop rotation? I rotate my crops, but I mostly grow tomatoes in buckets or pots of potting mix, and it seems to help keep the disease down. Hubby still grows his in the garden plots and rotates on 3 year cycle.

I love a big mortgage lifter for a one slice covers the bread or bun sandwich. The grape cluster type - IIRC sweet million, for snacking. Roma for a salad or sauce/cooking.


44 posted on 04/21/2018 7:27:19 AM PDT by greeneyes
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To: Dartoid

See my post just above


52 posted on 04/21/2018 8:30:55 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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