>> My tomatoes were sad, the worst output in almost 30 years of growing them. Toms just don't set fruit and ripen in cool, cloudy, rainy weather. Seems everyone locally had similar results
"Toms just don't set fruit and ripen in cool, cloudy, rainy weather" ... I agree, but decided to let three plants follow me home from anusery last Spring, just to see what I could get them to do in my yard.
I was delighted to get ANYTHING to ripen on two of those plants ... though even the Stupice were somewhat lame and the "Supersweet 100" were more like the "Semiripe 10 fruits".
I think my "delighted" results in Seattle were probably about the same as your
"sad, worst in 30 years" in Cincinnati!
I hope to get some plastic tents or hoops going this year, plus pots, so I can position them in what sun I do have. And move the young ones back into the house when nights go below 50 or 45.
