"Hey - wanted to make sure you saw my comment on the tomatoes plants...make sure you pinch and remove suckers that develop in the crotch joint of two branches. They won’t bear fruit and will take energy away from the rest of the plant. Also, put about a 1/2 cup to 1 cup of Epsom Salt around the base. We did that with our tomato plants and each one of our 44 tomato plants has so many tomatoes we're having a hard time keeping them staked well.
Love ya!"
We have one tomato plant in a container in our back yard. We have consulted with Margaret, Norm, Stephanie, Catrina, Joe, Pete, and Google over its care and have done everything they advised--including the Epsom Salt around the base. For a while the thing stopped turning blooms into tiny tomatoes, and we thought something was wrong. Both Joe and Pete told us it was the hot weather, and it would make new tomatoes again when the heat broke. Well, they were right. It is weighed down with small and large tomatoes now. Not quite like Catrina's perhaps but nice. All three of us are taking an inordinate amount of interest in this plant. We actually had our first tomato off it at dinner last evening.
So, here is a photo of our garden:
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