LOCAL TOMATO CROP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 29 October 1941, Page 4

LOCAL TOMATO CROP

RIPE FRUIT IN THREE WEEKS GLASSHOUSE PLANTS MAKING GOOD 111 ADW \Y The tomato crops in Nelson glasshouses are now making good head way and growers in the Wood area i expect to he able t«* market the first of the crop at the usual time, . between Die 15th and 20th Noveinbci. I (weather appeared to he retarding tin pnigre - ot the plants, but with the j improved conditions the tomatoes arc e j now growing, well, and the manner in .. j which the earlier bunches of fruit are ’’ Jetting, indicate- that the crop will be a good one . A grower commented to-day that it _ was seldom that everything went smoothly throughout a tomato reason. ']lf it wa- not cloudy weather then it wa a late frost or the early appear-] ~ j anee of mildew on the plants that causL * ed growers some anxiety. However. I u.-uallv the warmer November weather :1 allowed the plants in the houses to l i "catch up" and the first fruit usually (' j became available for the market- with- - i in a day or two of the same date each Practically yd 1 of the tomatoes to be t grown outside have now been planted.