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Old August 18, 2013   #33
aclum
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Merced, CA
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Hi Delerium,

I grew NAR a few years ago and, as I recall, it produced very late, I only got a few tomatoes off of it, and the taste didn't really stand out for me. However it wasn't a good tomato year for me and I've read so many good things about it that I've decided to give it another try. Same with Paul Robeson. AGP has always been a favorite and this past season was one of the few times I haven't grown it. Same with Marvel Stripe. I'm giving it a try this fall to (hopefully) compare with Hillbilly and Lucky Cross - still going strong in the garden.

Haven't had any good grafts yet this late summer as I've been doing some major experimenting using the nebulizer for humidity and larger plants than I'm used to. Am about to try grafting some seedlings that I have duplicates of onto the 105 rootstock - going back to the old tried and true methods from last winter-spring.

Haven't posted photos of the new beds yet as it's still a work in progress and it's taken MUCH longer than I expected - mainly because I didn't buy enough aluminet shade cloth and I've been having quite a time piecing things together to get full shade coverage. I'm simultaneously working on pruning and yanking existing plants, doing some lower and lean to make more room for cuttings and new seedlings etc. And I'm restringing all the trellising with baling twine as my old poly twine is rotting away. So things are sort of a mess at the moment, but, just for you , I'm enclosing a couple of photos of things so far. I added more aluminet shade and moved the coolaroo type shade cloth to another bed..... Not a whole lot of tomato production recently but still have about 10 or so to harvest daily and things are starting to blossom again.

Anne
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