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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Peaches and Cream sweet corn - 83 days to maturity.

I alway plant at least four rows of sweet corn and I crowd it a bit. Generally get complete pollination when the wind doesn’t flatten the crop. My spring crop got flattened three times after it had started to tassle so I only got about half of what the yield should have been due to incomplete/absent pollination and having to chop it all in one go due to the tangled mess it was in.

With any luck the 2nd crop will have better luck with the weather. I planted in September last year and was about a week away from harvest when we had a hard freeze and it all got killed. Should be safe from that this time.

Two of my beefsteak tomato plants are loaded with fruit but the vines are toast. The other 14 plants look to be headed the same direction. It can’t hurt to try a few things to keep them alive but I think rooting some cuttings is going to be my best chance of having late tomatoes this year.


38 posted on 07/31/2023 2:04:51 PM PDT by Augie
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To: Augie; Diana in Wisconsin
Sounds like a good idea. Rooting cuttings of your fastest maturing varieties.

Diana; Any suggestions for Augie's tomatoes?

(A....Did you clean your tomato cages before using them this year?)

39 posted on 07/31/2023 6:16:02 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission (6B KS/MO border )
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