An intro and a question

[genuphobia]

'lo there! 20something living in central NC, currently shacked up with the 'rents, who decided to build a raised bed at the far corner of the property. Having nothing to plant a third of the box with, it was decided to start a garden with tomatoes that taste like proper tomatoes should.

I've got a Red Brandywine, a Cherokee Purple, a Sungold and a Gold Medal growing alongside several lavender and a few sad-looking dills that just went in this afternoon.

This is what I found on the Gold Medal yesterday:



That leaf stalk got the snip when I found it.

Today, two leaf branches on the same plant that had been fine yesterday turned up with spots when I examined the plant this morning. I clipped them both off and gave everything but the dill a thorough spray of Daconil, but I still haven't figured out what it is. I'm hoping it's not Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus. The leaves didn't wilt, and I haven't seen any thrips, but I know that's not the only way TSWV spreads, so I'm not ruling it out as a possibility. Augh.

If anyone here could help me out, that'd be great!

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[florence_craye]

sungold was definitely my favorite so far (super sweet 100s after that) for cherry tomatoes, and for larger ones, probably brandywine or marvel stripe. This year, I'm sticking with cherries as I don't have the patience for ripening larger tomatoes and like having new tomatoes to eat every day or two. The past years were awful droughts, so that may have been why it took forever for the big ones to ripen. Also, Green Zebras are wonderfully tasty tomatoes: just not when grown in my garden, for some reason.

That said, I hope to grow some cherokee purples in the future or hopefully some Paul Robesons. But those are for another time when I'm out of grad school and have more time on my hands and maybe a permanent garden instead of my containers. I'm sticking to cherry tomatoes now, and am excited to see what my black cherry tomatoes will taste like... I should take photos and post them here soon.