You Reap What You Sow (Garden Harvests)

[Feathers and Fins]

Wow Ness, hate hearing that on your maters mine are on steroids or something. Been pulling about 2pnds on my cherries every 3 to 5 days and both my beefsteak and goliaths are producing 8 to 15 a week right now. But we had no bugs on them. I did lose my cucumbers due to beetle though and Okra is a tad slow to come on. Peppers are the best we have seen in years. We did lose our carrots but that was my fault I planted them amongst the peppers thinking the peppers would be a typical year and not overpower them. Normally it works out great but this year it didn't.

[tippet7]

Pulled a nice fat ripe tomato, a "better boy" I think my wife said it was. It seemed perfect, no holes, rips, but when I cut it open it was as rotten as a corpse. Any ideas what caused that and why it looked perfect on the outside?

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This is the culprit

[ness]

I dunno what happened, tippet7. I do tend to pull my tomatoes before they're ripe -- when they start to turn color -- and let them ripen inside where they're safe and sound.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I struggled with tomatoes for the same reason, but so far the Celebrity's and the one Big Beef, both VFN, and the Big beef is resistant to everything, are doing well. If I can just catch the cut worms if they arrive I should be in good shape.

[Quillback]

Speaking of tomatoes - I haven't seen a single hornworm yet this year, usually I'm picking 2-3 a day off my plants. Haven't seen any Japanese beetles either.

[Feathers and Fins]

Speaking of tomatoes - I haven't seen a single hornworm yet this year, usually I'm picking 2-3 a day off my plants. Haven't seen any Japanese beetles either.

Ditto

[Jason R.]

Got a few bigguns so far- I think the biggest is a beefsteak. Also no hornworms yet in Central AR.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I think I mentioned before that we have a row of Hibiscus that is a magnet for the Japanese beetles. I did find one on them several weeks ago, but that was it. The mystery for me is not just the fact they didn't make an appearance, but why? Someone knew because the wife started looking for trap after I found the one and none were available?

[rainbow]

We are having a bumper crop of everything this year. Picked two baskets like this today of tomatoes and cucumbers. Been taking the surplus to the farmers market in our area once a week to sell it.