billyporter said:Rita,
I'm finding out NOW they don't taste good!!! LOL! I paid a good amount of money for the seed. I will juice them till the seeds are gone.
My tomatoes just haven't done well this year. Too much rain at the wrong time. The ground never dried out so they are watery instead of flavorful.

I think many of the "blue" tomatoes are a novelty.

billyporter said:Rita,
I'm finding out NOW they don't taste good!!! LOL! I paid a good amount of money for the seed. I will juice them till the seeds are gone.
My tomatoes just haven't done well this year. Too much rain at the wrong time. The ground never dried out so they are watery instead of flavorful.

Rain has been a huge issue here, as well. My plants are really horrible looking, and lost tons of tomatoes to being waterlogged and splitting. I think it will be an early end to the tomato growing season here.

My Super Sauce paste tomatoes were nothing like they've been in past years. Not nearly the yield, smaller fruits, etc.

That would be very disappointing! Seems like it's always something, doesn't it?

But hope springs eternal, right? There's always next year

I picked tomatoes, but had a lot of greenish ones that will need to ripen. I did cook and strain a pitcherful just for me to drink. I added curry, turmeric and ginger to it. I haven't had any yet, lol!

I think Early Girl will be the next plant pulled. It has the wilted leaves bad and very few tomatoes set on now. I don't think I'll sow those next year either. Rutgers are healthy but not prolific.

Both of my paste tomatoes bottom leaves are turning brown and not many tomatoes.

Hemlady said:Both of my paste tomatoes bottom leaves are turning brown and not many tomatoes.

All of my "outside" tomatoes (those not in the hoophouse) have quickly progressing disease right now... I hope they can hang in there long enough to give us plenty of big tomatoes! Truly amazing how much better the ones in the HH look, especially since they (the Viva Italia plants) are the ones that were always the first to be overtaken by disease. Definitely a good argument for putting up the much bigger hoophouse that I want!

Weedwhacker said:All of my "outside" tomatoes (those not in the hoophouse) have quickly progressing disease right now... I hope they can hang in there long enough to give us plenty of big tomatoes! Truly amazing how much better the ones in the HH look, especially since they (the Viva Italia plants) are the ones that were always the first to be overtaken by disease. Definitely a good argument for putting up the much bigger hoophouse that I want!

I would say it means you should get the biggest hoophouse you can manage!

I think it's going to be 16 x 20; but, of course, I'll still have the little 7x15 one, too...

Weedwhacker said:I think it's going to be 16 x 20; but, of course, I'll still have the little 7x15 one, too...

You can never have a big enough house, hoop or otherwise. Go for it girl!!!

All the paste type tomatoes in my garden are done. I pulled out that section (which had 11 plants) early this week. It looks so bare in that garden area!!

Going to plant peppers there next season although I know that is not much of a garden rotation.

I was pleased with my paste types except for the Striped Roman. What a waste of space those turned out to be as I got no usable tomatoes. All have BER. Yuck. Such a shame as they looked so pretty.

I plucked and pulled all the rest of my tomato plants a couple weeeks ago. We're slowly eating the ripening ones.

I found that mostly the paste types quit production much earlier than the slicer types did. I found that disappointing. But since most of the paste types did do really well I am not unhappy with them.

Rita,
I found that too, and I am going to plant them again.

My paste tomatoes were a total bust this year. Only picked about 2 all summer. Plants had a blight of some sort. Now, I am being overrun by fruit flies and they are destroying the remaining tomatoes on the vines.

Aw Cindy,
That's too bad!

Yes it is Sally. I really should have sprayed the tomatoes this year. I don't usually have to do that but this year was particularly bad for pests.

Hemlady said:My paste tomatoes were a total bust this year. Only picked about 2 all summer. Plants had a blight of some sort. Now, I am being overrun by fruit flies and they are destroying the remaining tomatoes on the vines.

That really is a shame!!