We’ve got six plants of full-sized tomatoes. They have thus far escaped the tomato blight epidemic that’s been plaguing commercial growers in the NE. Two of ours are bush varieties, which stay compact, but the other four need more support than stakes can provide. I’ll have to get cages for them next year.
What irks me, a little, is that within the past two days, I’ve had to chuck out five decent sized tomatoes that I’d left to vine ripen. They got basal rot, where they sat on the ground. My solution is to pick them 2-3 days before they really are ripe, and let them bench ripen. Rot is not an issue if I do that.
Despite the ones I had to toss, we’ll have to start canning them pretty soon. There are only so many grilled cheese & tomato sandwiches we can eat, or so much chicken ciacciatore before we get sick of them.
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