wilkes

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You might want to do a Ph. test on your soil. You can have the best rich looking soil around but if the Ph. is way off your crop yield will be poor.

I use grow bags for my tomatoes. It's impossible to over water with these and I water daily. They are made from heavy duty landscape fabric. You can use a blue walmart shopping bag that costs 50 cents but they will only last for a few seasons. This method makes a very easy raised bed that requires a lot less soil. I put a mix of 50% potting soil and 50% of my existing soil in the bags.

give them time to grow. its still early in the season.

Put some coffee grounds around them. Works for my plant.

I don't think you need to water them so often. I've killed more plants by over-watering than I have under-watering.

Quack you had better ask Jason since he helped you plant your garden.

I don't throw away water I have cooked vegetables in like a vegetable steamer or water I have boiled eggs in. Put it together with rain water and water your plants. They love it, especially house plants and it costs nothing.

they need fertilize......if you could find some chicken liter, that will do it. don't put it right on the plant, it will burn it up. if you have 10 10 10 fertilizer, work it in the soil. that's why they are not growing......THEY NEED FERTILIZE. I was raised up on a farm......ALWAYS FERTILIZE THE SOIL BEFORE YOU PLANT. good luck with them.

another trick for a less acidic and sweeter mater is sprinkle a little baking soda on the soil around the plants once a week being careful not to get the soda on the stem or leaves

You need to give it a couple of weeks When you first plant them they go into shock. It takes a couple of weeks to get them acclimated to there new environment. This and that is also correct. Temperatures need to be above 50 degrees at night. Also keep in mind never water in the evening. This could cause blight. You can also put egg shells in or around them this is a great source of calcium. Hope this helps.

also meant to say, it's just now getting warm enough for some growth to start. My are still small too.

Truth is, most years, we would still have a frost. Don't think it will this year though.

Quack buy a few new plants and plant this like this.

Gently pinch off all the leaves, leave about 4 at the very top.
Dig the hole about 3 to 4 inches deep, and oblong, not straight down.

Take the plant and gently lay it long ways in the oblong hole, leaving only the top leaves above ground.
Pull the soil in around them and tamp down as you fill the hole.
Just a firm press with you hand in all you need.

Leave a rounded circle around the plant like a bowl. That bowl will catch rain water instead of just running off.

All those little hair like things
all up and down the stem will form roots, giving you a very strong plant.

When you water, pour about a gallon straight onto the root. You will not need to water as often as you are doing now. Let them NEED water again before you water, and water the same way.

Also, if a slope is all you have for planting, the deep root method will help keep them in the ground when it rains.

It is a wonderful thing to just go to your own plant and pull those beautiful tomatoes you grew yourself.

It's BLT season, Hope you try this.

My 2 Tomato Plants just don't seem to be growing. I try to water them every other day. I measured them daily and they are only 9 inches tall and they don't seem to be growing any taller althought one does have a yellow bloom now. Guess they are going to be small tomato plants. They are planted on a slope and heavy rain washes them away and I have to replant them. They don't seem to have long roots.

How does your garden grow? Not so good. I don't have a green thumb.

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