I've had a sad tomato summer

[platys]

I started with 17 plants. I've lost three, and I'm about to lose two more. I'm pretty sure its white flies, although I haven't had any more yellowing on other plants once I started spraying Neem on a regular basis.

Worse yet, I've had awful fruit set. I didn't plant until Memorial Day, since it stayed cold and rainy. I did get some initial fruit set, but the temps immediately rocketed up into the 100s and stayed there - right as the big mass of blooms came out. I finally had some more fruit set in the last few weeks, but that'll require keeping the plants going for a lot longer, and who knows with this weather.

Then, to make matters EVEN worse, I've got a critter who likes to take a few bites from completely unripe tomatoes. I've been harvesting the second I see any sort of blush. I haven't gotten a tomato off Rutgers (which had bad fruit set), Brandy Boy, Pineapple, or Hillbilly. I've only gotten one tomato off Dagma's Perfection, Hawaiian Pineapple, and Brandywine OTV.

So that is my sad whine.


2011-08-15 18.38.28.jpg by knittergail, on Flickr