I grew Celebrity tomatoes (or at least they were tagged as such) in a spot that had never grown any tomatoes before. All plants after being in decent production, though with smaller fruit, got what looked to be a blight; the tomatoes went bronzed, the leaves turned up, went bronzy then yellow. Now, no more big tomatoes.
My seed-started cherry tomatoes, which were just starting to bloom, look to be succumbing to something like bacterial wilt, as did some other volunteers earlier this summer.
Went to local farmer's market in Claremont CA to look for 'maters last Sunday. This should be the height of tomato season, but my sister and I found very no heirlooms, no romas/paste and the tomatoes we did see looked like they had been picked early (not red-ripe, very firm), had set around for a while (dried calyxes) and had NO scent at all--and everyone wanted 2$ plus a pound.
Upon talking to a couple of the growers, it seems that this might have been an especially bad, disease-wise, growing season.
Has anyone else heard anything about a possible bad growing season, at least for farmer's market growers?
My seed-started cherry tomatoes, which were just starting to bloom, look to be succumbing to something like bacterial wilt, as did some other volunteers earlier this summer.
Went to local farmer's market in Claremont CA to look for 'maters last Sunday. This should be the height of tomato season, but my sister and I found very no heirlooms, no romas/paste and the tomatoes we did see looked like they had been picked early (not red-ripe, very firm), had set around for a while (dried calyxes) and had NO scent at all--and everyone wanted 2$ plus a pound.
Upon talking to a couple of the growers, it seems that this might have been an especially bad, disease-wise, growing season.
Has anyone else heard anything about a possible bad growing season, at least for farmer's market growers?