Tomato Report

The tomatoes are up and loaded with ripening tomatoes.

As with last year's crop, the plants that had been grafted onto tomato root stock that is resistant to bacterial wilt diseases are out-performing the ungrafted plants all the way around; they're taller, bushier and are producing larger tomatoes.   We lost three of the plants we had grafted in March (see: Dr. Cindy and Dr. Kay Operate), but the rest of the grafted plants are doing well.

Cindy pulled out the ungrafted Sioux plant a couple of weeks ago because it was rapidly succumbing to disease.  Now the Kewalo tomato is also showing some signs of blight, although it is supposed to be resistant to both nematodes and bacterial wilt.

Kewalo Tomato Plant

However, the rest of the plants look like they're going to produce plenty of tomatoes this summer.