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Old August 9, 2015   #52
joseph
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To show my attitude towards problems with tomato plants... On Friday I was in the garden picking tomatoes, and noticed a plant (yellow pear) on which the leaves were turning yellow/brown. It was a large plant, full of green tomatoes that would ripen in a few weeks whether or not the plant died.

I yanked up by the roots and tossed into a fallow area of the field. If a tomato is going to be allowed to grow in my garden next year, then it has to have grown perfectly healthy this year. (In theory, it still has a chance to volunteer next year, but the odd are much lower than if it convinced me to save seeds.)

I didn't try to determine if it was a blight, or a mineral deficiency, or an insect, or whatever. It was just cull, Cull, CULL!!!

I am growing some crosses between domestic tomato and pimpinellifolium. A couple of those will be culled because they can't out-compete the flea beetles.

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