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Originally Posted by Redbaron
For the first time in 4 years my bell peppers went crazy productive. 1/2 my tomatoes died, but the other 1/2 are doing awesome. Since all that died were dwarfs, I am thinking it must have something to do with slow growing roots and not being deep enough when the heat hits.
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Great to see you back! Assuming it *is* you and not a ghost of some sort. Do you have half your tomatoes still performing this late?
I suspect that you're right about root depths. My paternal grandmother used to grow large gardens out on the ranch in the early 20th century and had no way to supplement water. I've thought that it must have been that she was able to plant varieties that put down deep roots during the spring rain periods and used those to survive the rest of the largely rainless summer.