unripe tomatoes, japanese beetles, late-start vegetable gardens and more: q&a with ken druse
This month on our Q&A segment we crammed in as many as we could by taking a shortcut, and instead of having live callers, we gathered more questions than ever and I just shouted them out. Call it our Lightning Round.
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tomatoes not ripeningQ. Let’s start with a fast one about tomatoes, because I’m getting a lot of questions about tomatoes, Ken.
Ken. Don’t you always?
Q. [Laughter.] Yes, except in December. This one comes from Tricia on Facebook, writing from the Fort Worth area of Texas, Zone 8, so she’s farther along in the season:
“I have loads of green cherry tomatoes on three varieties. They are not ripening as expected. Production is less than 25% of the norm. Is there a problem with the grower I purchased the transplants from?”
Ken, do you grow tomatoes or any other edibles, by the way?
Ken. I don’t grow a lot of edibles because as you know my season is very short and it’s kind of shady here. But I do
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