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Old September 4, 2010   #6
Tania
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I have lots of yellow shoulders and uneven ripening issues in my greenhouse tomatoes this year, especially on my heart-shaped varieties.

But all hearts in my container garden did not have these issues this year.

I have to conclude it is the difference in growing conditions: as we had some extreme temperature fluctuations this summer, going from cold to scorching hot very quickly several times, and as a result, I could not control soil moisture very well in my GHs, plus I neglected to add more manure to the GH soil half way through the season. This resulted in poor fruit set, poor foliage cover, and some less vigorous plants in the GHs. On the opposite, the container tomatoes grew huge and vigorous (lots of mushroom manure there), yielded high, and had more asserting taste, whether it was sweet or acidic.

So there is certainly something there in the growing conditions...

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