Doing some planning for 2010 season, I know what I'm planting from heirloom varieties and have all the seeds (except Spudakee - still looking for them).
But I also wanted to plant a row and try few disease resistant hybrids. So if you have any experience with the following varieties, please share your thoughts! I've read the vendor's description, but would like to hear what real world experiences are.
Golden Girl
Cabernet
Tomande
Another one is Sweet Cluster, but Alex have already done his part on this one, definitely planting it.
Regards,
D
a0c8c - thank you for your input, appreciated indeed!
TZ - Everything in the raised beds is fine (my brother snapped a pic after I fed the tomatoes in the morning)
[img]https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i230/duhvinci/2009_garden/2009_garden_me.jpg[/img]
No trouble with heirlooms, really pleased!
But there are few in the ground - from the pictures I've seen [url=https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver/leaf/]aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu[/url] , what it appears, that one plant in one location has verticillium wilt (Cherokee Purple), and there are two, on entirely different side of the house has some alternaria (Yellow Boy in the area adjasent to a large field of wild grasses and weeds of every kind)
All still have blooms, all still producing. I will definitely rotate the crops next year, but wanted to try those resistant varieties in the area next to the field. I love fresh tomato juice in the morning, so if those taste good, productive and dz resistant, I though why not to plant one row of 8 (2 of each) It gets plenty of sunshine in the morning, and partial shade after 3pm, so these don't fry.
Regards,
D
TZ - Everything in the raised beds is fine (my brother snapped a pic after I fed the tomatoes in the morning)
[img]https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i230/duhvinci/2009_garden/2009_garden_me.jpg[/img]
No trouble with heirlooms, really pleased!
But there are few in the ground - from the pictures I've seen [url=https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/publications/tomatoproblemsolver/leaf/]aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu[/url] , what it appears, that one plant in one location has verticillium wilt (Cherokee Purple), and there are two, on entirely different side of the house has some alternaria (Yellow Boy in the area adjasent to a large field of wild grasses and weeds of every kind)
All still have blooms, all still producing. I will definitely rotate the crops next year, but wanted to try those resistant varieties in the area next to the field. I love fresh tomato juice in the morning, so if those taste good, productive and dz resistant, I though why not to plant one row of 8 (2 of each) It gets plenty of sunshine in the morning, and partial shade after 3pm, so these don't fry.
Regards,
D
Exactly!
I had very little of the quality soil and local compost left, so this bed is only 10" high. But to keep the rabbits out of this low riser, put this little "fence". Drilled some holes as you guessed, works like a charm.
Plus this was a good way for me to test the "square gardening". I think it works, bell peppers are very productive (5 in this bed) plus 1 Hungarian Wax, loads of sweet and Tai basil, and on the pedestal I didn't want to take a chance are 2 Russian Bull's heart (directly behind me).
Regards,
D
I had very little of the quality soil and local compost left, so this bed is only 10" high. But to keep the rabbits out of this low riser, put this little "fence". Drilled some holes as you guessed, works like a charm.
Plus this was a good way for me to test the "square gardening". I think it works, bell peppers are very productive (5 in this bed) plus 1 Hungarian Wax, loads of sweet and Tai basil, and on the pedestal I didn't want to take a chance are 2 Russian Bull's heart (directly behind me).
Regards,
D
In case you didn't know, hybrids are only resistant to the specific diseases listed on their packages (the letters after their name -VFN etc), and for verticillium wilt I believe that there are three strains so you would have to know which strain hits your area of the country. The hybrids will not come through unscathed, they just resist the disease long enough to get some ripe tomatoes... long enough to be profitable for farmers.
Those hybrids will not resist foliage diseases any better than open pollinated varieties.
Those hybrids will not resist foliage diseases any better than open pollinated varieties.
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