A very productive day of garden yesterday. All kinds of harvesting going on. Tomato yield has been improving, we were able to get four quarts of sauce tomatoes in the freezer. We had about twice that many with end rot on them, so we are going to treat them with calcium again as soon as… Continue reading ‘Maters and Corns and Beans, Oh my!
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Tomatoes galore
We sent the kids out to pick tomatoes yesterday. I guess you could call this mission success. And ten minutes later… “Daddy, let me in, I picked some more!” Oh, and a bunch of grapes that they were Not supposed to pick, but somehow it got picked anyway. So… Anyone want some snacking tomatoes?
Tomato update.
A beautiful heirloom marriage, without a trace of blossom end rot. Four days after treating the tomatoes for blossom, end rot with the lime, the “end rot“ spray that we ordered from Amazon finally arrived. By that time we were already starting to see a bunch of well formed sauce tomatoes without end rot, although… Continue reading Tomato update.
Trying to Salvage the Tomatoes
Video post, in which I talk about what is going wrong with our tomatoes, what we are trying to do to fix it, and what we plan on doing differently next year. https://youtu.be/C_yCOsCbIBA