harveyc

Thanks for the report, Mark.

I had 18 of the physallis plants planted amongst my tomato "garden" (270 plants) and those were very productive. I had another 2 plants planted next to my garage and prepared the soil with compost and those plants got larger but bore much less fruit. I don't really know why, but it was a pretty dramatic difference. The ones with the tomatoes probably got sun for about two more hours a day and were more sheltered from wind. I think there is probably some cultural practice that helps improve productivity. The striped potato beetles really did a number on the ones in the tomato garden and I first tried pyrethrin but then resorted to Sevin. Maybe removing most of the leaves would trigger the plant to flower more?

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