My Tomatoes

Hey Grandpa Bob, I am planting my vegetable garden this weekend and can't wait to have tomotoes ... but doesn't yellow leaves mean you water too much??

You are right, what beauties! We still have frosty nights here in Michigan. I'm not even planting any flowers yet. Two years ago, my brother tilled about a half an acre at his place that I helped plant and mostly weed. Among the many vegetables we put in cherry tomatoes. Talk about an over abundance, we even tried pickling them along with our beets. Not sure I would recommend that or don't use the recipe we did. Anyway, they were so good just eating them like grapes.

I have idea about what you must to do with the tomato plants and also I have nothing to do with the gardening.... I know the question is ,what I'm doing here.The answer is...sitting and reading your discussion (not only these but almost all about gardening)and envy you,your wife and most of all your garden.I always lived at the capital with no place for garden so.... Good work grandpa,give the congratulation to your wife too ,and even if i don't response to all(after all I haven't something to say)I read all the discussions about gardening you start.

You need to put a shadecloth over the tomato plants. This is commonly done in Australia. Erect a simple type of stand, & loosely drape the shadecloth (a green one) over the all the tomato plants. It might be a bit of a nuisance, but it works. All the tomato famers in Australia grow them in glass houses, due to our hot sun. What are cukes? You could make some homemade relish with all these home grown vegetables.

If this is your tomato plant I would not be complaining it looks great. I do not plant a garden as I have no garden space but tomatoes would be my first choice. There is nothing like fresh garden tomatos. They are making my mouth water right now. Do you ever grow yellow or orange tomatos? They are very good also.

What a beautiful tomatoe plant. She wasnt lazy she was jusy anxious to have that first ripe tomato. We still havent planted a thing. I always wait until after Memorial Day. I have lost a few things to frost by planting to early.

What a gorgeous tomato plant! We just got ours planted this weekend. We are trying the 'topsy turvy' planters with a few of ours and putting a few in the ground as usual. The 'topsy turvy' is a bag that hangs from a hook and the tomato plant hangs out of the bottom! If this works, hubby and I want to put several of them out next year to increase our space! We can plant on the ground and in the air!

Maybe its been under too much sun Granpa Bob. Maybe you could put some net that could house those plants that are sensitive to too much sun. I saw my cousin put some net over some of her plants and she said that its to reduce the sunlight because too much sun would make them wilt.

My uncle does a lot of gardening and he says that depending on where you live, most likely your plants have too much sun. He claims that it is almost impossible to over water tomato plants as they need lots of water. We live in Texas so the watering thing could also just be here in Texas. He says that tomatos are very sensitive to sunlight and that you may need to either move them (if they are in pots) or made a shade for them. Also, he says use miracle grow plant food for fruits and veggies. He swears by it. According to him, if your soil is not "perfect' for tomatos, then you need to help it by feeding the plants a good plant food. He also swears by fish scrap fertilizer that he makes himself from all the bits and pieces of the catfish he doesn't eat. Personally, unless you really like the smell of over ripe catfish, buy fertilizer at the garden center! :) I hope this helps you a bit. I don't garden anything that cannot be grown in a pot. I do cherry tomatos and grape tomatos in big pots on my porch. Lots of shade, no direct sunlight and lots of water. They seem to do ok. I also do jalepenos, midget zucchini, baby cukes, baby carrots and potatoes. If I can grow it in a pot, I will. Otherwise, I do not garden.

Wow! Noone down here has tomatoes yet that I know of. I just bought my plants last weekend and gonna plant them this weekend due to the fact I tilled under a ton of 1/2 aged horse manure in my vege and wildflower gardens. Want them to age a lil more b4 planting. Finally went out and took pics of almost everything this morning. lol Hope the frost we are expecting tonite doesn't hurt your maters, Grandpa Bob.

Home grown tomatoes taste the best don't they! I love them. They look delicious!

I have my garden in already. We just had a cold snap. No frost but it gets pretty chilly at night. I cant wait to watch it all grow!

hi nice meeting you. i too love gardening a lot and a lot. u can see my home garden pic in my site www.macherlas.piczo.com

I am thinking about growing some tomatoes this year as well. Every year I say I will but never do. I have a small bedding area in my yard ( I live in an apartment) that the landlord said I can use but its already filled with beautiful flowers and I would hat to tear them up just to plant some tomatoes. SO now I have moved on tho the idea of just putting them in some big pots, Iiiiii'd also lik to plant some chilli peppers and maybe cucumbers and lettuce of some sort. Who knows if I will actually do this, we'll have to see how the weather is this weekend.