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10:57 am
August 13, 2011
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The hubs and I went out to stake the tomato jungle that has gotton away from us recently. I swear if we looked at it, could see the plants growing. We already have stakes in the ground and linked all the stakes together with string then tied the plants to the string, but the tomatoes grew over them. We had to attach a stake on top of the first one and add more string. Most of the plants were as tall as me and some well over my head. All of these plants are cherry tomatoes. We have pinched off the leaders and all of the suckers when we see them. The branches are weighted down with the biggest cherry tomatoes I have seen, though none of them are turning red yet.
We planted over a hundred tomato plants this year. Most of them a romas, a large tomato that I forget the name of, and of course the cherries.
Last year we had a bad, make that no crop of tomatoes. I think we are going to make up for it this year.
The rest of the garden plants seem to be larger this year as well. Has anyone else felt like "Alice in Wonderland" in their garden this year?
3:29 pm
November 11, 2010
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Yes! We planted in the richest manure compost we've ever had and stuff went crazy. My tomato plants are tall, too, and the squash was like something from another planet.
9:29 pm
December 11, 2010
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Homekeepn said:
The hubs and I went out to stake the tomato jungle that has gotton away from us recently. I swear if we looked at it, could see the plants growing. We already have stakes in the ground and linked all the stakes together with string then tied the plants to the string, but the tomatoes grew over them. We had to attach a stake on top of the first one and add more string. Most of the plants were as tall as me and some well over my head. All of these plants are cherry tomatoes. We have pinched off the leaders and all of the suckers when we see them. The branches are weighted down with the biggest cherry tomatoes I have seen, though none of them are turning red yet.
We planted over a hundred tomato plants this year. Most of them a romas, a large tomato that I forget the name of, and of course the cherries.
Last year we had a bad, make that no crop of tomatoes. I think we are going to make up for it this year.
The rest of the garden plants seem to be larger this year as well. Has anyone else felt like "Alice in Wonderland" in their garden this year?
I too have a tomato jungle. The plants are over 7 feet high completely obliterating my pool from view and also the neighbors house etc. We have just begun to harvest the fruit, the cherokee reds are delish and so are the beefsteaks. The marzanos are just beiginning to ripen adn I am trying to figure out how to pick them all with out toppling the plants.
8:32 am
July 30, 2011
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I also have a tomato plant that is five feet tall and has only had two tomato's on it all summer, it is a Heirloom plant I bought at the Farmers Market. My question is why only two tomato's? I have fed it and water it and have a fence around it planted all to it self not with any thing else. The plant looks and feels healthy just no tomato's!! Any suggestions? thanks Ellen
9:09 pm
August 13, 2011
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Epeavey1…My guess is you could of feed them too much. Plants that get too much nitrogen will have great looking foliage with little fruit. Do you have a lot of flowers that just haven't produced yet? Try not feeding them and see what happens.
Our problem is still no red tomatoes yet. The romas are getting big and the cherries have been at size for a little while now. I am wondering if it is just lack of sun. The plants are so tall that maybe the tomatoes are shaded too much.
10:04 am
October 10, 2009
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This seems to be the year of huge tomato plants! Ours are 6+ feet tall and loaded with fruit. One plant, a German Queen has huge fruit – one tomato is approximately 9 inches around. The grape tomatoes and romas are producing very well. With my luck everybody will ripen at once.
12:28 am
December 8, 2010
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Since you are talking about tomatoes, I feel I need to add this.
On April 30th of this year I bought 10 tomato plants. One was a yellow, 4 romas, 2 cherry, 1 slicer and 2 I don't remember. Breeds I am not good at remembering so please if you need to know I have to pull the tags. I don't want to.
I planted them in the next week, (remember I live in NW Oregon) inside wall o waters. They grew and looked very nice. Our weather stayed cold and WET until July, but when we had one I repeat 1 day of good weather I pulled the wall o waters off. The plants were growing out of the tops. A friend came by and said he wanted to see my garden and he said " I should prune off the branches that were NOT supporting the plants." My DH has always said I should trim when the tomatoes set so they will ripen. So, I trimmed, I got tomato plants over 7 feet high and only a few tomatoes, some plants had none until I began to buy and use Tomato Blossom Set. So, I was doing the Bee's job.
Then the end of July I put a kind of plastic greenhouse over the tomatoes and peppers. They loved it, and now I have peppers galore. But I have still got no tomatoes unless I keep spraying the plants. I did stop trimming and the plants are 7 feet tall. I credit the fact of 50 50 manure dirt and a cover crop over the winter to the super large plants as all my plants were like that this year.
The problem with trimming like that is I was trimming off the plant and it was growing new plant and not even opening the buds. So, when I quit trimming I got flowers and now I have tomatoes, green and it is close to September. I am finishing the plastic building into a full greenhouse and see how long I can keep the tomatoes and peppers producing. I only have to figure out how I am going to control the tomatoe plants as they have reached the tops of the roof and the cages. I did get my greenhouse bought this summer, but it isn't together yet and may not be this year,,,again
10:43 am
December 27, 2008
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Tomatoes blossoms will abort in very hot temps. In hot southern areas, tomatoes will bloom and grow tomatoes early and late, but not during the hot spell. If you don't get your tomatoes going until it's too hot, you may very well not get tomatoes until fall.
I trim the suckers off my tomatoes continually and cut the tops off around mid Aug to encourage ripening of the fruit I have. It should not prevent the tomatoes from growing flowers unless you pick the flower stems off instead of the suckers. On some varieties of tomato, it's hard to tell the difference.
Gordon Graham grew the world's largest tomato on a tomato plant 52' feet long with only the one tomato on it! Our season is not long enough to do that here, unfortunately.
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