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tomatoes falling off plant green!!!
Posted by Mindyw3(5)
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digdirt2Updated Is this just a few fruit or many? If many then it is often a sign of plant stress (usually water related) and it is dropping the fruit to try to survive - some call it fruit abortion although that is usually associated with small ...
Prepping for Next Year
Posted by ejh805(8b)
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digdirt2Updated Plants grown in containers will need regular supplemental feedings throughout the season regardless of what is added to the soil at planting time. Slow release fertilizers will leach out of containers with watering just like any o...
Tomato leaves shriveling up and dying
Posted by ickysgirl70(4a)
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ickysgirl70(4a)Updated I can try to post a picture. It was getting dark by the time I'd thought about it. I'm sure to have more leaves like this tomorrow. I don't think it's too little water because the leaves never droop or wilt. They stand tall and st...
Fertilizing Throughout the Season
Posted by hawk201
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hawk201Updated digdirt Mine are in the ground and forgot to mention that I use a watering can when I apply MG for Tomatoes.Very healthy looking plants but will see later the volume of fruit they produce.
Tomatillo thoughts?
Posted by tundrah desert
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carolyn137(z4/5 NY)Updated tundrah, I don't know if you're asking about the hummingbirds or the tomato as possibly being involved in pollination, but neither one would be. Tomatillos are in a completely different genus and species than are tomatoes and toma...
Stupice Foliage Sparce?
Posted by coconut_head(5b)
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coconut_head(5b)Updated Here is a possible scenario I just thought about. Being as this is the first year on these raised beds, perhaps I inadevertantly layered the cardboard thicker under that paticular spot, and maybe the plants are just having a hard ...
tomato pics w/ question.
Posted by ChicagoDeli37
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digdirt2Updated Agree. If your plants were all heavily mulched with straw or hay or one of the many similar mulches as they should be then it wouldn't hurt anything for them to contact the ground. Not to mention that your soil moisture levels wou...
Something eating my tomatoes
Posted by SCKat
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helenh(z6 SW MO)Updated You can easily have hornworms and not see them. You don't see any slug slime do you? The tomato of the left looks like it has sun scald.
Happy Birthday Carolyn137
Posted by Bets(z6A S ID)
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MrsJustice(Hampton Va.)Updated Happy late Birthday
Pollinating the flower
Posted by MyAeroponics
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MrsJustice(Hampton Va.)Updated I will tell you how to pollinate your tomatoes as farmer did 100's year ago. This is for all plants that have both male and female, mostly found in heirloom or open pollination plants in hot weather. Farmer back than use to take s...
PayPal
Posted by garf_gw
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colokid(5)Updated I have had good luck finding and getting seed from E-bay sellers. Like all E-bay things let your second sense warn you of bad ones. Better luck than with one well know highly publicized seller who's last order was two wrong out of...
Is this fungus or blight? image 3
Posted by jennypat Zone 3b NW MN(Zone 3b NW MN)
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TomatobabyUpdated I crushed a probiotic pill and mixed it with some water and sprayed/rubbed it all over my tomato plant as well as watered the remaining amount at the base and my plant seems not to have gotten any worse. I tried it bc half my toma...
Tomato Leaves Curling... but downward?
Posted by manda_manda
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capoman(5a)Updated manda: Ontario has pretty strict rules on herbicides. For the most part they are banned, but allowed for health reasons such as poison ivy elimination. Townships are allowed a bit of leeway for road maintenance, but not pathways. ...
Big Fruit
Posted by bigpinks
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bigpinksUpdated Best of luck Corrine
Trim Tomato Plants
Posted by chuckby(z5NY)
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digdirt2Updated Removing excess leaf stems removes excess weight causing broken stems and allow more air and light into the plant. It also increases sun scald of the fruit and decreases the plants ability to photosynthesize energy for growth and ...
Tomatoes have quit blooming - help!
Posted by chrisro(8LA)
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PatSteveC(zone 6)Updated My Better Boys are not doing well. I have one plant that is stunted. It does have a few tomatoes that came on early. But the plant has not grown much since and has just a few "small" flowers. The other Better boy is not ...
Planting Basil w/ Tomatoes....is there a benefit?
Posted by Nu_2_Gardening
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Djole(6)Updated One can use catfaced tomatoes for a Rorschach test ;) Last year i've seen my aphid population on peppers migrate completely once i've put a container with nasturtium majus (tropaeolum) next to it - they just switched from pepper t...
Potential issues with Tomatoes...need advice
Posted by Nu_2_Gardening
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cole_robbie(6)Updated Peaches do the same thing.
Tomato Problem?
Posted by syndi(6)
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dickiefickle(5B Dousman,Wi.)Updated Diseased ,probably from soil borne disease splashed on the leaves during watering. Trim off affected leaves. Trim off first 8 to 12 inches of branches and good leaves (so they Don;t get splashed on ) Here is a link to a chart of d...
Shade cloth
Posted by mbrowne(9b Central CA)
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digdirt2Updated Agree. A separate suspension system out of direct contact with the plants will work much better. If for no other reason than you need a good air space between the tops of the plants and covering to avoid trapping heat. Dave
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