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eweed wrote:
Anne the rot you get is a form of blight. I fought it for years and lost so many times. I quit growing tomatoes for a few years. Then I built a PVC green house with a visqueen cover .Instand success. The next year I expanded it to 14x50. You and your hubby can build one 12x18 pretty cheaply on a saturday and plant tomatoes in it on Sunday.

Most Roma tomatoes are somewhat tolerant of blight, You surely need to look at short maturity dates like Siberia,it's a Russian that tolerates cold temps. Forget big beefstakes and hierlooms without some form of gh.

I have more or less the same climate as you do except you are a lot damper. Here is a shot inside a couple of years ago