Gardening Advice
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Gardening Advice
I'm sure I could find this information if I did a search but I'm sure there are experts here that can help me.
I have a bunch of tomato plants and am getting loads of tomatoes from all the plants. The problem is they are splitting on the vine before they get rip enough to pick. They are splitting in a spiderweb looking patteren from the area around the stem. It looks like they are growing too fast or something.
There is nothing wrong with the taste or anything, they are just ugly and the area around the split dries out somewhat.
I hate pulling tomatoes when they are still green but if I leave them on there, they start to split. We still have another month or more of tomato harvest here and I'd like to get as many as I can.
Any ideas? Thanks.
I have a bunch of tomato plants and am getting loads of tomatoes from all the plants. The problem is they are splitting on the vine before they get rip enough to pick. They are splitting in a spiderweb looking patteren from the area around the stem. It looks like they are growing too fast or something.
There is nothing wrong with the taste or anything, they are just ugly and the area around the split dries out somewhat.
I hate pulling tomatoes when they are still green but if I leave them on there, they start to split. We still have another month or more of tomato harvest here and I'd like to get as many as I can.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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this will sound a little stupid but it works ,go to your local brake shop and ask for the shaveings from the brake laith till those shaveings in around your tomato plants I'll bet you'll love the outcome. tomatos love acidic soil with lots of iron the plants need the acid soil to be able to take up the iron properly. try it ,it works MAKO
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Originally Posted by Torque1st
Sea salt spread at a rate of 2# per square foot will take care of fast growing tomatoes.
. This is the first time I have planted a garden in this yard and the soil where I planted was so hard I had to bust it with a pick. I'm sure the soil is crap there but the plants have become huge bushes and each plant has 20+ tomatoes on it at a time. I have many 1+ pound tomatoes. I can't even give them away any more hardly. I just wish they weren't so ugly.
I'll try the iron filing thing and maybe next year I'll get some manure to try to acid up the soil some.
Thanks.
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My wife planted three Roma tomato plants amoung some other crops and they are coming out perfect. All we used was a couple of bags of steer manure compost. I don't like using chemical fertilizers, especially since it's a hobby sized garden. No bitter cucumbers, everything tastes and looks great.
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magnum300 hit the nail on the head......splitting is caused by too much water, and you're right....nothing wrong with the taste.......Had a lot of rain the last few weeks, and mine are getting "split-enz"........
Acid tests before planting are a good idea, but putting down lime when you start the tilling and soil conditioning (manuring....peat......) will cut down on the acidity of the soil (rarely a good thing). Calcium is a good idea also, and if you're getting black spots on the 'maters, that could be calcium deficiency, and blossom-end-rot liquid cures that pretty well.....
Good planting.......Canned a couple of dozen jars of salsa with most of the ingredients taken right from the garden..........Fresh vegetables rule!!!
Acid tests before planting are a good idea, but putting down lime when you start the tilling and soil conditioning (manuring....peat......) will cut down on the acidity of the soil (rarely a good thing). Calcium is a good idea also, and if you're getting black spots on the 'maters, that could be calcium deficiency, and blossom-end-rot liquid cures that pretty well.....
Good planting.......Canned a couple of dozen jars of salsa with most of the ingredients taken right from the garden..........Fresh vegetables rule!!!
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Originally Posted by magnum300
Splitting is from to much water at once making them grow to fast
Just finished a couple BLT samiches and boy were they good. Next time I may just leave out the B & L and just eat the tomato on some toast.....
Worth every hour I put into the garden this year.....
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