Tomatoes....?

Question

What is your secret for a successful crop?

Answer 1

I've never had any success at growing tomatoes. The last time I tried, my tomatoes developed tomato blight. (black, mushy, spots on the blossom end)

Of the few remaining tomatoes that I had left after the blight, the birds, squirrels and insects devoured all, but one lonely tomato!

After adding up all the money that I spent on the initial ten tomato plants, fertilizer, tomato blight remedy, insecticide, my labor cost, water usage and squirrel fighting gear, I figured out that the one tomato that I was able to save or salvage cost me $117.00! ( and even then, it didn't taste as good as my grandmother could grow!)

I have decided that it is much less expensive to buy my tomatoes from people who know what they are doing! :)

Answer 2

Tomatoes are realatively easy to grow. Start out with nice stocky seedlings. When you plant them, put them in the ground so that about 6-8 inches of the plant is sticking out of the soil. If you have to cover up the stem (which is perfectly fine...roots will form along it and anchor the plant better...) make sure you remove the leaves first. Next put either wire tomato cages around them or stakes in the ground to tie them to.( I use both ) As the tomato plants grow, make sure they stay in the cages, or tie them to the stakes with strips of cloth, if that is what your using. Fertilize weakly with a blooming plant fertilizer..(yes I do mean a blooming plant fertilizer...tomatoes do not like alot of notrogen...which is found in the regular kind of miracle gro..) I use blooming plant food to encourage flowers on the tomato plants...more flowers mean more tomatoes. The next thing is pruning. To get really big juicey tomatoes, you have to prune your plants and pick "suckers". Suckers are side shoots found between the main stem and leaf stem. Pick those out or the plant will put all of its energy into making them and no fruit. when you have several nice clusters of tomato fruits forming, prune out the top part of the plants and let them ripen. Make sure they have enough water (In dry years they will need around 2 gallons of water each) and mulch to keep down weeds and keep the soil moist. Tomatoes like hot humid weather so make sure they are in a sunny spot

Answer 3

i feed my tomatoes with a miracle grow feeder once a week! and mine are perfect and more plentiful than i ever expected.i always before used fertilizer and other stuff ,this is the first year i tried the miracle grow feeder instead of fertilizer and to my surprise,its wonderful!that way theres no guessing about what you plant needs in the way of fertilizer!also plenty of water!

Answer 4

As strange as it sounds , if you have a fish tank, use the dirty water( when you clean your tank out) to water the plants. It is all natural fish fertilizer.Works like a hot damn. You should see the size of my tomatoes now, and the flower buds on them.

Answer 5

Low ph soil,plenty of manure (horse is best) sun and water,

Answer 6

oi buy fresh tomates and eat them all they are very healthy