https://davidbach.net/wiki/ 2026-06-27T07:49:32+00:00 https://davidbach.net/wiki/ https://davidbach.net/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2015-09-30T15:47:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:about:plants:tomatoes:blight&rev=1443628031&do=diff Late season tomato blight I attended a webinar about late season blight. It is caused by a fungus that can affect both tomatoes and potatoes. The presenters at the webinar, all agricultural researchers, agreed on several statements: * The several fungi active in the U.S. cannot survive cold winter weather unless they inhabit an over-wintering potato. As the potato sprouts it can release thousands of spores to infect the area. text/html 2015-09-30T15:38:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:about:plants:tomatoes:growing&rev=1443627529&do=diff Growing tomatoes History Attempts at growing tomatoes in 2012 and 2013, our first here in the Pacific Northwest, weren't encouraging at all. In 2012 we had limited space in a hoop house. We grew some tomatoes, but late season blight took its toll. text/html 2015-09-30T15:42:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:about:plants:tomatoes:indeterminate&rev=1443627759&do=diff Growing indeterminate tomatoes My wife and I can most of the tomatoes we grow. The rest we give away. I'm looking for a good, blight-resistant, determinate paste tomato (Roma or similar). Yes, indeterminate tomatoes keep on bearing and they keep on growing, sending out suckers from every possible end and joint. I would be happy with a variety that could be contained or was determinate and produced its crop all at once. text/html 2025-08-03T00:49:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:about:plants:tomatoes:niles&rev=1754182171&do=diff Nile's 2020 Tomato Selections Fellow gardener Niles (sadly, deceased) offered a list of his favorite tomato varieties in 2020. Click a variety name in the sidebar to view a photo and see a link to the seller's web page for more information. If a seller changed a location a link may be broken, but you may be able to search there for more information on the variety. text/html 2014-09-28T00:40:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:about:plants:tomatoes:pix&rev=1411864813&do=diff Creating the hoop house for tomatoes and peppers Below is a gallery of photos of building the hoop house and growing the tomatoes (and peppers) in it. Click any image to view it larger. [Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array][Array] text/html 2015-01-17T16:27:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:about:plants:tomatoes:seeds&rev=1421512062&do=diff Savings seeds I seldom save seeds from our vegetables. Exceptions are: * Beans (dry beans are easy to manage) * Corn (from flint corn which are dried and grown in isolation from other corn) * Leeks (once, anyway) * One variety of tomato Of course, the seeds I do collect are from open-pollinated varieties. Selection I save seeds for only one variety of tomato. It is not commercially available, as far as I know. The main reason is that this variety, text/html 2015-09-30T15:46:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:about:plants:tomatoes:varieties&rev=1443627986&do=diff Varieties of tomatoes we have grown Here are the few varieties of tomatoes we have successfully grown. Brandywine [Brandywine heirloom tomatoes]I received a retirement gift of some Burpee seeds for Brandywine tomatoes. I didn't realize when I planted them that this heirloom tomato has great flavor, and produces large slicer tomatoes that are as good canned as on a sandwich.