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We just got too much rain and while I expected some tomatoes to crack I didn't expect the horrible disaster (will try to load a photo later) we got. Whole vines are a moldy mess with virtually all tomatoes cracked, rotting, with various black and white molds. It's pretty smelly !
No more BLTS with my hierlooms, no tomato jam this year, no green tomato pickles, no tomatoes that make it just to Thanksgiving.
Anybody else get this? My question is, except for picking all tomatoes if torrential rain is expected, what else can you do?
We don't really have room to set around one or two bushels of tomatoes, so I was wondering if you could just take drastic action before a major rain and cut the main stem of the plant. It would wilt, but it may prevent cracking and give you a few days to harvest all. Anybody ever try this?
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