Did you have bad luck with your (Wal-Mart) tomato plants this year?

Question

We usually plant 10 -12 tomato plants every spring. Every year I can 20-25 quarts of salsa and few quarts of regular tomatoes and have enough to give tons away to friends and family. This year I purchased plants from Wal-mart garden center and they just sucked. Although they grew nicely, they hardly produced enough tomatos to enjoy fresh. Did any one else have this problem? Was it the plants or just the year. (Midwest USA)

Answer 1

WalMart is totally unethical when it comes to wholesale growers. They want small and cheap and will renig on contracts. It's not the grower's fault, they're forced to follow the specs WM gives them and what you get is inferior plants. I'll say no more 'cause I don't wanna be sued. Local greenhouses have taken to potting starts in much larger 6-packs, just to differentiate themselves from WM. Support a local family greenhouse and get quality plants that the grower stands behind!

Answer 2

Here in Kentucky it was a bad year for tomato's. All of mine that I bought from a family owned nursery ended up with black end rot. Their was too much rain in the spring and long dry spells in the summer months. By the way I don't like wal-mart plants either.

Answer 3

Here in Ohio it was a bad year for tomatos. There were periods of way too much rain with long dry spells between.

I would not buy my starts from Wal Mart regardless.

Answer 4

My husband worked for Wal-Mart for a pair of three hundred and sixty 5 days and a nil.5. We have been attempting to purchase a house and the Wal-Mart HR individual had no concept a thank you to fill out a verification of employment. It replace into touch and choose for slightly yet our very own loan officer finally replace into waiting to stroll them by a thank you to fill out the type so we could get our very own loan authorized. an identical HR individual replace into additionally curiously incapable of correcting deductions from his paycheck so we ended up owing $1200 in taxes to the IRS - due 2 weeks after final on the aforementioned domicile. and in no way, ever purchase something that feels like that's been opened from them! Returns are generally placed decrease back on the shelf, despite if or no longer they're in working order. (See the VCR tale above!) specially situations the recent product would not even make it directly to the shelf without injury - evade the boxes that appear as if they have been dropped. They in all probability have been! In protection of the staff - that's no longer hassle-free for them to care approximately their jobs whilst their organization would not pay a residing salary, the working hours are crap, and the customers cope with them like sh*t simply by fact, inspite of each and every thing, "that's in easy terms Wal-Mart".

Answer 5

I have made a solemn vow never to buy any kind of plant from wal-mart. Every plant I have ever bought from there has died about a week later!

Answer 6

I have bad luck with Walmart's tomato and other vegetable plants all the time and that is why I do not buy such plants from them.

Answer 7

all my store bought plants tanked. Luckily I had wild romas that are still fruiting.