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June 14, 2022
What would we do without the translating of friends, expressly Master Gardener friends.
Beverly, who volunteers in the vegetable garden at Raincatcher’s, gets the credit for my bumper yield of tomatoes this year. She talks well-nigh tomato problems as in her last blog and this one, but moreover gives promising advice.
After viewing the webinar Epic Tomatoes with Joe Lamp’l and Craig LeHoullier, Beverly sent these notes:
Pick tomatoes at full size and 35% of color. This has a tomfool name – “breaker stage”. It will help prevent splitting due to rain and will moreover help protect from all kinds of creatures.
Ripen indoors, don’t use sunny area.
Do not pinch suckers off dwarf or determinate plants.
Don’t take off all suckers on indeterminates.
Suckers are new plants. On big plants they may proffer fruiting periods. They moreover provide shade.
Use suckers, expressly on hybrids like Sun Gold, to start new plants (clone). Let root in water.
More good translating from TAMU : Why are my tomato leaves turning yellow? Nutrition, disease, physical disorders may be the culprit.
And thanks to my eldest son and grandson for watering my garden during the crucial early stages when I was out of town with a trademark new grandson. Your diligence made my tomato hopes a juicy reality.
Ann Lamb, Dallas County Master Gardener Class of 2005
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