Tomatoes 2025

[flowerbug]

yesterday when picking i needed a snack so i was munching on a fresh tomato in the garden. for some reason in the past i've not normally done that much at all other than for cherry tomatoes (which we don't grow any longer). it was sunwarmed and delicious.

at the moment i've finished rinsing and dunking the tomatoes i'll be canning tonight so now they are sitting there ready for me to start peeling, coring and chunking them. i'm taking it easy today so not in any rush to get around to it.

 

[Branching Out]

A few of my Dwarf Sweet Sue tomatoes have developed a marbled tan patch on the bottom, and I'm trying to figure out if it's maybe a bacterial fruit rot or perhaps the beginning of late blight. These tomatoes are growing in a hot dry spot under cover of the roof, so blight would be an unlikely candidate-- especially because we had no rain for almost a month, beginning in mid-August. https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/Portals/0/Gardening/Gardening Help/Visual Guides/Tomato Fruit Problems.pdf

 

[ducks4you]

Finally got a small harvest of 13 medium sized tomatoes from my big garden. I added 2 more from the pot next to the house and DH and I had salad with onions, tomatoes and tunafish for dinner.

 

[digitS']

@Branching Out , I have used Cornell University information on plant diseases and found that it is helpful. However, they say that their VegMD program has "retired." They continue to have help for commercial growers here LINK. The information from Missouri is certainly comprehensive in just a few pages.

I looked at Cornell's Botrytis Gray Mold pdf just because it said "gray." The information and pictures have it at the stem end.

The information on Late Blight wasn't all that helpful in my brief look but they have photos that are somewhat like yours. But, the pictures look like it was further along than those patches if they are the same. Late blight seemed to be a problem beginning a number of years ago on the eastern side of N America. There should be more information out there. It just occurred to me that I have found North Carolina Cooperative Extension online info helpful.

Steve