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Post by garf on Jun 21, 2011 12:11:30 GMT -5
It is officially the rainy season in Miami. This might sound good to some of you, but not so for the swamps of Miami. Miami was carved out from the Everglades, and mother nature has never forgotten this. Most days now, we will be getting rain in the afternoon, sometimes light, sometimes heavy. Bottom line, plants in the ground drown, plants in containers have the medium washed clean and the plants starve. Diseases and insects run rampant. The few tomatoes that ripen intact usually split after a rainstorm. Time to pack it in and wait for October.
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Post by tucsontomato on Jun 21, 2011 20:41:01 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that. Have you ever grown Neptune?
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Post by jcm05 on Jun 22, 2011 5:11:09 GMT -5
Bummer garf. Sounds like a gloomy outlook.
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Post by garf on Jun 22, 2011 14:59:55 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that. Have you ever grown Neptune? Never even heard of them. |
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Post by PVP on Jun 22, 2011 15:02:17 GMT -5
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Post by garf on Jul 12, 2011 12:11:05 GMT -5
This is what happens when you attempt to grow tomatoes in Summer in Miami. Attachments:
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Post by tucsontomato on Jul 12, 2011 15:24:02 GMT -5
I think it would be worth a try for Neptune (howbiet in an isolated area). It is a real shame to lose out on all the sun that is available in the summer. With a company emphisis on disease resistance SESE would be a good source for this variety.
Neptune has a very open growth habit, it is determinate, it is one of the only varieties I would comfortably water on a daily basis, and it has vigor and disease resistance that set it apart from most every other variety I have grown. It just doesn't set a ton of fruit. But then again- it might provide fruit when nothing else will.
Another possibility would be to fill in the gap from the tomatoes with a cover crop that will still produce fruit such as sweet potatoes, Chinese long beans, or Yamato cucumber. That is often what I do in the summer time.
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garf
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Post by garf on Aug 9, 2011 21:22:34 GMT -5
Bummer garf. Sounds like a gloomy outlook.
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It's not as bad as it seems. After the rainy season is over in October, I can grow all winter until the rainy season starts again in June.
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Post by garf on Aug 15, 2011 17:57:07 GMT -5
Strangely enough, a few plants are surviving. I no longer know what variety they are, but if they are still alive when the growing season arrives, I will see what happens. I may have to move them around to freshen the growing medium in the containers. One plant is actually flowering. That must be an Everglades.
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