It is funny, tomatoes are one of those plants that grow effortlessly in New England. On Memorial Day you stick your plants in the ground. By mid August they are 6′-8′ tall and each one has given you 20 or 30 large tomatoes.
DH handled last years crop. Nary a single tomato did we get. The plants only got to a few feet tall and were the scraggliest tomato plants I’d ever seen.
This spring I tried. We’ve picked about 6 small tomatoes and the plants are scragglier than last year.
The most common comments on growing tomatoes here are that they won’t grow in clay, they need real dirt, and they need full sun.
But I read in the Chronicle that now was the time to put in your second crop of tomatoes so I’m giving it a third try.
See also:
Shelly and Roy on tomatoes
Urban Harvest, Ten Tips for tomatoes
2 responses so far ↓
1 Julie // Aug 3, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Know anyone with a horse??? Tomatoes (and rose bushes) really like composted horse manure! Sounds like your soil is lacking something.
2 herself // Aug 3, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Probably ’soil’ would be the main thing lacking in the soil.
I’ve added tons of real dirt and worm castings which are my favorite fertilizer. It may just take a few years to bring the dirt up to a normal level.
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