I thought I was set up for a banner tomato year. I have/had 18 plants: 6 Roma, 6 Early Girl and 6 other that I can't remember. Through July/August they were all growing like gangbusters. I know I have an issue with VF contamination so the last few years I have been diligent to plant only varieties that note VF resistant. Seems to have worked, as I tried a few non-resistant plants and they suffered the wilt from I assume VF type disease. So, this year, I had 18 great looking plants, lush, growing great until early August when one seemed to start with the wilt looking crud. There were lots of green tomatoes and the other plants all looked good. But by later August, a month ago, slowly the other plants all started to look the same, didn't seem to matter the variety. The soil dampness was what I think was about right, very consistent although we did have a few couple day periods of pretty damp weather, but always dried out in a day or two later. By the time I should have literally had hundreds of tomatoes, they were falling off the plants, half ripe, some staying long enough to ripen but not totally. I am at a bit of a loss to understand what happened to my tomatoes. We did get lots of good enough fruit to make a couple gallons of sauce (our main goal) but probably lost 1/2 or 2/3 the crop and had only very few really nice and ripe tomatoes. One other thing, many, many of the tomatoes were really funky shapes, other than the Romas that never got to the size I would expect. Any ideas or thoughts? We are thinking next year I might move the raised beds to get a bit more sun as some trees have gotten over sized near the garden. And some new soil ought to solve the VF problem
