Rocky Mountain Gardening: Plants that did well this year, 1 by Katlian

Katlian wrote:
Well, I was busy picking and canning this weekend. 5 quarts of tomatoes, 4 of plums, and a couple dozen jars of jam (and two loaves of bread to taste them on.)

The Jaune Flammee tomatoes did ok but the leaves were attacked by some sort of fungus. It looked exactly like alternaria leaf spot but it was the wrong time of year and weather for it. Blight also affected the Sungold nearby, which never got very big but had a fair yield of tasty little fruits.

OSU Blue experimental tomatoes did quite well and will probably make good salsa. They were touching the Jaune Flammees and showed no sign of blight.

Big Rainbow only had a few large fruits and they are not very tasty.

Legend was compact and not affected by blight. Lots of big beautiful tomatoes on these plants. Bought at the nursesry to replace seedling eaten by pill bugs. Also bought Thesaloniki (medium yield, lots of cracking) and Siberian (poor yield, heavily disfigured fruits.)

Garden Peach has been very slow and the fruits may not ripen before frost.

Black Plum had an enormous crop from the lone survivor of the pill bug attacks. We will have plenty of sauce for the winter.

Cherokee Purple has been very slow and has ugly, cracked, sunburned fruits.

That's all for now, time to eat that bread!