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| Hello, all, I am in northern Louisiana. I had a great growing year, until just about 10 days ago I noticed a fungal infection overtaking all 12 of my tomato plants. I'm cutting off the dead leaves, but it's leaving them stripped pretty bare and I'm not optimistic about salvaging them. I have a couple of bare spots in a flower bed where I plan to stick a couple of new plants, for fall growing. My question is should I get a determinate or indeterminate plant, or would it matter? We've actually had quite a cool and rainy summer, though that doesn't mean it won't get horrid hot next month. Thanks for any advice. I've never planted a separate crop of fall tomatoes, because I usually have continuous production from my spring planting. Very sad to lose them. Rita |
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| In your zone it is probably your choice. Folks up further north would probably stick with short DTM determinates for Fall gardens so they can get a crop before the first freeze. So variety is a bit more important than type. When do you get first frost average? Pick a variety with a DTM that falls in before that date. Follow me? If you are buying a transplant your choices will be very limited this time of year anyway which is why most of us who do Fall gardens use our own traqnsplants grown from seed a few weeks ago or use rooted cuttings. Dave |
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| Thanks, Dave.The Home Depot had about 5 varieties of plants. I decided on a Heatwave, a Solar Fire, and one called Fourth of July, which has a 50 day maturity. Our first frost is average November 15, so I should be ok with these, depending on how things go this year. Wish me luck (and wish me luck with salvaging my existing plants!). Rita |
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