On 9/1/2018 12:07 AM, Cheri wrote:
> "U.S. Janet B." > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:28:31 -0700, "Cheri" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> 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
* Bummer for y'all . I was having the best year ever - until the
critters found my tomatoes and ate them all . Even the green ones .
Those particular critters aren't around any more , and the tomatoes are
coming back now , but we lost probably two dozen or more quarts to them .
--
Snag
Yes , I'm old
and crochety .
Get off my lawn !