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JRinPA · July 22, 2023

I guess they taste about the same?

I am up to 3 sunsugars and 1 sungold eaten.

I really need to go back to trenching all my plants in. I still have a bad elbow from 3 years back removing a sungold cage. I had forgotten there were two plants trenched in there, not just one, and in the end of October when they were mostly dead, I very cavalierly yanked the cage out with plant still spread and woven into it. When it resisted, I pulled harder. The plants won and my arm lost. That's how good the root system is when trenched in.

Alas I have done less and less of it for my big tomatoes since I began using this black woven mulch. It keeps the weeds down and the water in, but makes it impossible to trench a plant in properly. I feel that my tomato starts have gotten weaker the last few years because of this.

I gave Cherokee Purple a good shot this year at new impression. Initially I liked it a lot, 2 years maybe, then it faded. I think I gave it 5 spots again this year.

July 22, 2023	#13
JRinPA Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: SE PA Posts: 963	I guess they taste about the same? I am up to 3 sunsugars and 1 sungold eaten. I really need to go back to trenching all my plants in. I still have a bad elbow from 3 years back removing a sungold cage. I had forgotten there were two plants trenched in there, not just one, and in the end of October when they were mostly dead, I very cavalierly yanked the cage out with plant still spread and woven into it. When it resisted, I pulled harder. The plants won and my arm lost. That's how good the root system is when trenched in. Alas I have done less and less of it for my big tomatoes since I began using this black woven mulch. It keeps the weeds down and the water in, but makes it impossible to trench a plant in properly. I feel that my tomato starts have gotten weaker the last few years because of this. I gave Cherokee Purple a good shot this year at new impression. Initially I liked it a lot, 2 years maybe, then it faded. I think I gave it 5 spots again this year.