Yeah, we also stole Seattle's weather with 24 days of rain and temps in the 60s & 70s during June. Causing lots of problems with fungus & such... On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:28:11 -0700, Doug Irvine wrote > =Mark wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:52:06 -0400, Jose Cisneros wrote > > > >> The stooper markets don't quite get it yet. > >> > > > > Ya got that right. Went to 3 markets yesterday, in the middle of July, and > > they're still only selling billiard ball tomatoes... > > > > I just read that you guys in the east are going to have a bad time > with tomatoes this year due to a blight which is hitting the plants, > both the commercial and private growers. So you may be stuck with > lousy tomatoes for this year. Too bad, because we went through that > a few years ago, and never did get decent priced fruit for the rest > of that year. I had 6 plants on the roof of the building that year, > which is over 100 ft up, and we got nothing at all. I companion > plant with marigolds, so we had lots of flowers but no maters! > Cheers, Doug in BC -- =Mark http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens