[tubebender]

Try Cherokee Purple next year. We buy them at the farmers market as it is too cool to grow T’maters in Eureka. Your leaf curl could be normal unless you have late blight. Blight is a disease that is air and soil borne and you do not want to put the plant in the compost pile.

My raspberries give me two crops a year. One on the tips of the new canes in the late fall and then I winter prune about 12 inches off the plant and it fruits next year while the new canes are coning up.

I use a lot of drip irrigation to put the water in the root zone and water is very expensive here...

[Quix]

Thanks.

Will keep Cherokee purple in mind—easier given that my great granddad was Cherokee.

Thanks for the input on the other issues.

The leaf curl didn’t seem to match anything I’d found on the net but what do I know. Just didn’t bear well and after got 4-5 feet or so just seemed to stagnate with all the leaves curled. Decided I wouldn’t risk it any longer and whacked em back. Didn’t put on compost pile.

New Mexico summers are usually good for tomatoes though I should have started my seeds 10 weeks earlier than I
did. My 84 year old step-dad is still partial to the EARLY-GIRL’S. LOL.