[metmom]

I’m fighting the late blight with my tomatoes. I have a whole bunch that just need to hang on long enough to ripen and I’ll have some crop.

I expect to see the cost of tomato products skyrocket with this blight.

[nw_arizona_granny]

I’m fighting the late blight with my tomatoes. I have a whole bunch that just need to hang on long enough to ripen and I’ll have some crop.<<<

If there is a shortage of tomatoes, that will mean a lot of tasteless food the next year.

I do hope your crop matures, it is always heartbreaking to see one wasted by disease.

Here, the only tomato that ever really produced the pounds that I wanted, was a simple Cherry tomato.

The large ones always found a way to commit suicide, and if they looked like they might make it the gophers got them.

I would freeze them in gallon bags and then later cook them for sauce or canning, after having used them as frozen tomatoes for soups.

[Eagle50AE]

>>> I’m fighting the late blight with my tomatoes. I have a whole bunch that just need to hang on long enough to ripen and I’ll have some crop. <<<

Best of Luck , it’s starting to wipe out the local crop here in western carolina

and I also think tomato prices will reflect it..

[upcountry miss]

Tomato blight here in Maine just rampant. Television showing acres of tomatoes all black as if hit with a frost. I have lost nearly all of mine. My last hope is about a dozen plants planted in a raised bed initially planned for flowers but due to survival plans, planted to veggies instead, thank goodness.

DelaWhere, tried some dried zucchini and believe my dehydrator will be getting a workout this fall.
Just getting back on my feet. Did what the big “O” would call a “stupid act.” A couple weeks ago, on a very hot humid day, had my usual “breakfast”, a cup of coffee, then went out, sans hat or liquid and worked all day weeding and hilling potatoes. Whan I came in, late afternoon, it was all down hill from that point. Jumped in the shower and then the chills and shakes overtook me, along with nausea and high fever.
All the years of cautioning the children about covering their head and replacing liquids in the hot sun just escaped this old, feeble mind.
Now my daughter who brings me the daily paper early every morning, also brings a bottle of Gatorade!! Who would guess that this nearly eighty year old woman survived this long never having tasted Gatorade, (awful stuff) but I dutifully drink it, while being grateful that someone cares.