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| My tomato plants do really well, in fact too well we have to fight to keep them in control. But our tomatoes are not so good. A lot of them turn a kind of white or pale red as they ripen and the tomatoes are not very good, woody and generally of poor quality. I have three different kinds of tomatoes, didn’t keep the steaks but one is a big tomato, one is a cherry tomato, and one is small but bigger than cherry. All three have exactly the same problem.
I live on the beach, right on the Gulf. The soil is pure white sand, so we built raised beds using 2 x 12s and filled the boxes with a mix of potting soil, mushroom compost, and peat moss. We water twice a day and fertilize regularly. Other vegetables have done a lot better, we had great lettuce before it got hot, and we have really nice eggplants and a variety of peppers. All a great success, but the tomatoes are a bust. Any ideas what is wrong and how we might be able to fix it? I sure like fresh garden tomatoes; it’s killing me to see those plants full of fruit just going bad. |
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| Drainage too fast, not enough nutrient. |
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- Posted by jeep461 Z9 Texas coast (jpotts461@gmail.com) on Mon, Jun 23, 08 at 17:26
| Try picking green and ripen inside the house. It is too hot for tomatoes right now on the gulf. My best ones have afternoon shade. |
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- Posted by honeybunny2 Z9TX (My Page) on Thu, Jun 26, 08 at 23:50
| This happened to my husband tomatos, they have a calcium deficiency, you can fix that with espom salt 2 Tbls to a gallon of water. Barbra |
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| Get your soil tested. |
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