Growing tomato's what soils types or can I do better grow?

Question

My soil is heavy clay but I add the nursery plant mix for gardens

and even use miracle grow tomato food but I cant get

any variety of tomatoes to grow beautiful and as big as those

look in the stores, Mine are growing but are small and

the stem end get holes or they split ad some get spots

like dry areas and look bad or come out weird shaped

like the center get a dent and the two halves grow like

two spheres joined by a center line. also I get allot of blooms but only a few tomatos fruits. What can I do this use too be a field of tomatos They use tah grow tomatoes in this land

and why not now. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

If you grow the same vegetables in the same ground year after year you will find that the vegetable will grow less and less well because the soil becomes useless.  You may be able to grow something else, but I'd leave tomatoes alone for a while.  Lack of water is also bad for tomatoes, particularly.

Answer 2

I had the same problem for years, and this year I look greener than ever.  I put everything in my garden soil that should go downt he garbage disposal and everything from my fireplace.  And I mean everything from the fireplace, nails, ash, brackets, burnt wood that didnt, manure from my horses & dogs, coffee grounds.  Then till it all in and under really really good and then the store bought stuff and do it again.  I used miracle grow also on half my garden just to see if it really makes a difference, and it DOES.  A huge one!!! I live on a decomposed mtn for soil so I get it.  Above ground is the easiest way to start a garden if soil is really bad.   This year is the first time I have ever gotten tomatoes to grow for me.  Some how they are 4-5 ft. high and bushy like Ive never seen, and I hate tomatoes.  BIG problem for some are the tomatoe bugs, well I have a fix for them, all natural way to be rid of those gross bugs.  I planted squash & pumpkins all around my tomatoe plants and I have NOT seen one of those bugs yet.  My friends are all jealous of my plants.  The pumpkin have little prickly thorns on the entire plant and as it grows it wraps itself around your tomatoes stems and keeps them up also.  The worms cant slide across the stems.  Maybe I just figured some huge out for farmers