https://gardenbetty.com/splitting-cracking-tomatoes/ Gardening made easy, life made simpler. Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://gardenbetty.com/splitting-cracking-tomatoes/comment-page-1/#comment-70431 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:11:36 +0000 https://gardenbetty.com/?p=56317#comment-70431 Here’s the crazy thing – this year in the Pacific Northwest (Skagit Valley, so milder summers than most areas of Oregon where I’m originally from, no heat waves to freak out about), we’re growing San Marzanos and Black Krim & Cherokee Purple tomatoes in the same raised bed, and it’s been a BANNER year for the San Marzanos (a rarity there’s been zero blossom end rot), but the non-plum BK and CP tomatoes are sparse on the vine and the few that have grown are massively cracked on top. A very weird thing since I don’t dare mess with a good San Marzano crop yet the big ones are rebelling like crazy even though they get the same amount of water…any thoughts? I’ve interspersed these for 20 years so it’s definitely a strange year for tomatoes…

]]> https://gardenbetty.com/splitting-cracking-tomatoes/comment-page-1/#comment-69860 Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:44:19 +0000 https://gardenbetty.com/?p=56317#comment-69860 Why do my tomatoes have tough skins?
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]]> https://gardenbetty.com/splitting-cracking-tomatoes/comment-page-1/#comment-69303 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:00:08 +0000 https://gardenbetty.com/?p=56317#comment-69303 I had end rot and used wood ash to clear it up.

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