The lean and lower method for tomatoes works much better for me with our humid conditions and abundant disease problems and the fruit size is usually noticeably bigger with very little drop in production. However the cucumbers were much harder to deal with due to their rapid growth and sucker abundance and it became a total mess. I removed our pickling varieties and now only have to deal with a few Sweet Success and despite the heat I still am producing more than can be used by the two of us.
Bill
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