"U.S. Janet B." > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:28:31 -0700, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
>
>>"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>>> On 8/31/2018 7:16 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>>> > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> On Friday, August 31, 2018 at 1:16:26 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I say too danged many, picked late yesterday afternoon, a good 20
>>>>>> lbs,
>>>>>> my 16" deep dish pizza pan filled all it can hold:
>>>>>> https://postimg.cc/image/rketjip7h/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Nice looking big bowl of 'maters.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, really nice looking.
>>>
>>> Looks fabulous.
>>>
>>> I grew Early Girls this year, luckily as the mortgage lifters haven't
>>> exactly done well. The weird thing is half the Early Girls are round
>>> as you'd expect, half are Roma looking like those.
>>>
>>> nancy
>>
>>We planted Early Girls too, was a strange crop this year, started out with
>>some blossom rot on a few, then they stayed very small and didn't ripen,
>>then they started ripening all at once. They taste really good, but not
>>looking like the Early Girls of past years.
>>
>>Cheri
>
> due to weather stress all my tomatoes this year have tough skin and
> really, really large cores -- sometimes a third of the tomato must be
> cut away. I haven't had one straight cucumber. We have blasting hot
> days followed by cool, gray and windy. So the shoulders of the
> cucumber get broad and have that really smooth over ripe look and then
> the cucumber tapers down to a skinny curled end. This year has been a
> real disappointment.
> Janet US


I agree, a disappointment. I hope next year is better.

Cheri