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chilisauce · August 29, 2013

I decided to try a late blight resistant tomato garden this year. Iron Lady is doing very well, LOADED with medium sized tomatoes, but none ripe yet. We are in zone 5' at 1600 feet, so we are often behind others in our area in ripening. We do have a few Mt. merit ripening and their taste is very good. I have a few plum regal ripening, although I don't think the yield is a big as viva Italia. Both Defiant and Legend are doing well, but, yields aren't great. Old Brooks has hardly any fruit and is still flowering heavily, so there is little chance of great yields. Mt Magic is sprawling and ripening but the small fruit make it a salad or snacking tomato.
I will post again when I taste the Iron Lady.
BTW- there are tomatoes within a mile with late blight. So far all of these varieties are doing well resisting late blight!

August 29, 2013	#20
chilisauce Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: western new york Posts: 15	Iron Lady and other late blight resistant varieties in western NY I decided to try a late blight resistant tomato garden this year. Iron Lady is doing very well, LOADED with medium sized tomatoes, but none ripe yet. We are in zone 5' at 1600 feet, so we are often behind others in our area in ripening. We do have a few Mt. merit ripening and their taste is very good. I have a few plum regal ripening, although I don't think the yield is a big as viva Italia. Both Defiant and Legend are doing well, but, yields aren't great. Old Brooks has hardly any fruit and is still flowering heavily, so there is little chance of great yields. Mt Magic is sprawling and ripening but the small fruit make it a salad or snacking tomato. I will post again when I taste the Iron Lady. BTW- there are tomatoes within a mile with late blight. So far all of these varieties are doing well resisting late blight!