The dozen tips explored here can give gardeners a major leg up when it comes to ensuring their tomato plants thrive, and ...
My tomato plants have produced dozens of flowers, but very few fruits have set. I have even shaken the flowers to make sure they were pollinated. Can you tell me what is wrong? Your shaking of the ...
Q: I have some Early Girl tomatoes that I planted in March from plantlets that I bought. I talked to the Early Girls about a month later and told them that if they did not flower in the following week ...
I have tomato plants on an enclosed porch that have lots of blossoms but no tomatoes. They look like good healthy plants, growing very well; one is almost 5 feet tall. Am I doing something wrong? Help ...
At this point in the growing season, many tomato plants have started dropping flowers and not producing fruit. Do not be discouraged, just read this. Drought stress in tomato plants can cause flowers ...
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What I changed after my tomatoes kept getting too leggy and crowded
Leggy, overcrowded tomato seedlings are more than an eyesore. They signal stress that can follow plants into the garden, ...
Here are gardening questions I tackled this week at the Springs Preserve. Fall tomatoes: Last week, I mentioned planting tomatoes this fall. I dug into the National Weather Service records for the ...
New tomato blossoms have a much better chance of setting fruit now that the temperature has cooled into the 70s and lower 80s. Good "sleeping weather" for us is good fruit setting weather for a number ...
Although the time for tomato harvest is upon us, the plants are not yet done throwing challenges our way. With scorching summer temperatures, fruit set and color may both be hindered. While ...
A question for Dan Gill: I have the best-looking tomato and bell pepper plants I've had in a long time. However, the flowers will not set. Can you give me any suggestions, please? -- Harry Zeller ...
Q. I have an atrium that surrounds one part of my house. I grew a tomato plant there successfully last year. This year, I started a plant there, and it blossomed but would not fruit. I followed all ...
Don't be surprised as tomatoes start to set less fruit -- it's because the weather is getting hotter
HOT TOMATOES: By now, most tomatoes have already set their main crop. High temperatures (days in the 90s and nights in the 70s) interfere with pollination, and the plants are less inclined to set more ...
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