I live in a community that does not allow vegetation in the common areas, like my garden. Last year I had a planter of tomatoes and a rodent bit into one tomato so I pitched it into my garden. This year I noticed a tomato plant in the common area, I nurtured it and it yielded more tomatoes than the previous year in a planter. Big healthy red beauties. Was it just beginners luck?
This is quite common. I have had many crops to do this, from tomatoes to watermelons. In some areas, tomatoes can become quite invasive. I would recommend, either composting the old fruit, or putting it into an area that you would be ok with more coming up the next year. If you aren't careful you could end up producing food all over your yard!
What to do with the tomato plant after season is over before winter comes around?
Compost your tomato plant if it was free of disease and insect pests. Place in trash, if you don't have a municipal compost option, if the plant was diseased or infested.
I live in NY My vine tomato plant has lots of green tomatoes still What can I do with the plant. Its gonna snow soon It still looks so good
One option is to pull up the whole tomato plant and hang it up in your basement. The tomatoes will keep ripening on the vine somewhat.
Here is another way to ripen green tomatoes:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/tomato/how-to-turn-green-tomatoes-red-how-to-store-tomatoes-in-the-fall.htm
Any that still don't turn red can be made into tomato pickles, fried green tomatoes, or relish!
my tomato plants die from the bottom up, and they get black spots on the leaves. I was told Grubs What is your thoughts?
This sounds like a fungal infection in the soil. Do you plant in the same soil each time? I would apply wettable sufur to control this. Here is an article with more information on the care of tomatoes:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/tomato/growing-tomatoes-guide.htm
Hi,My name is topher.A good friend of mine is trying to talk me into helping him grow tomatoes on an acre of land this upcoming spring and Summer.He said the land had cattle and livestock on it for 30 Years so the soil is already pretty good so all we have to do is bushhog the the land and till the soil and we'll be ready to put plants in the ground.i don't have any experience growing anything on that big of a scale so I don't know if it's really gonna be as easy as he claims.i asked him how much profit we could possibly make and said about 3,000 dollars an acre growing heirloom tomatoes.i was wondering if it's really possible for 3 people to farm 1 acre.i know we'd have to stake them,keep the critters off of em, keep em watered..etc. Do you guys have any advice,can it be done?? Thx.
I am sorry, but we are not geared to help with large scale farming such as this. I can give you a link that will help you locate your local extension, and they will be able to help you with that kind of farming.
This will help you find your local extension service: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/extension-search/
We have some tropical flowers and tomatoes and the forecast is for below freezing. What can we do to preserve the plants and what should they be covered with?
This is very unfortunate. I would suggest mulching heavily, and covering with with burlap, making sure that nothing is getting crushed. It is likely that they will sustain some damage but doing this will make it more likely that they will survive.
The below picture hopefully will show you, this is starting to occur on the toms before they turn red, upon cutting them open inside, theres no bug that we can see but certainly some 'infection' going on inside, please tell us what you think, thank you.
This is, actually, a pretty simple fix! This is a calcium deficiency, which causes blossom end rot. Calcium also likes to be paired with magnesium, since they rely on each other for uptake.
I would recommend using dolomitic lime in the soil before, during, and after, as this prevents many problems that will plague tomatoes, in ground, and especially in container.
This article will give you more ways of controlling this issue: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/tomato/tomato-blossom-rot.htm