I just posted similar frustrations, Chai...should have looked at your thread first! I totally sympathize with you (and am in utter awe of your results, Ray!) I'm guessing that as Brad says, the strange and tomato unfriendly weather is what is setting things back more than your soil. My soil in both Contra Costa and Oakland is good and I haven't done anything differently than I have in the past 7 years, but my plants are smaller and fruitset is terrible - both are worst I've ever had. I'm just hoping for better weather ahead and a later than usual harvest.
Side note: I was really sorry to have missed last year's N. Cal tomato get together and I'd be happy to come to one the first week of August.
Hope you all are breathing easier this weekend that we all were last week!
Paul
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