Help with my tomato plants?

Question

I grew tomatos last year and plants grew about 3 feet tall and produced a good amount of friut and this year they are anout 1 feet tall and arent growing as fast as last year can anyone tell me if I will have a successful harvest or will I fail.

Answer 1

Usually tomato plants die off and will not refruit. You need to buy some more and put them in. You might actually have a baby tomato plant growing, it may be a seed fallen and taken root. I would leave it alone and let it grow. You MUST give lots of water to tomatoe plants.

Answer 2

Try to rotate where you plant your crops each year. Never the same type of crop in the same area of your garden. Probably not so critical for some plants but it is for tomatoes.  Fertilize your garden in the fall with cow manure. Dig it in and let it break down over the winter and early spring.

Answer 3

The weather plays a big roll in fruit & veggie production. I'm not having the same results I did last year or even for the past few years. Just now getting some ripe cherry tomatoes, which is late.

Starting with new plants will just set you even farther back, unless you find some beyond just starters & already have tomatoes on them.

You probably won't have as good of a harvest this year as last. I'ts not your fault though, some years are just better than others for different fruits & veggies.

Don't let them dry out but don't keep them soaked

Helps to mulch with compost

Fertilize (several options here, ask where you bought them for advice, should be a fast acting fertilizer, probably liquid, but don't over do it or you will have blossom end rot)

Answer 4

It depends if you planted the same varyity and if you gave them fertilizer and the right amount of water otherwise you might have a problem but you wil stil get your fruit

Answer 5

you don't say if they have any flowers on.  by now they should have and if so you should be feeding them.  Perhaps you are not giving them sufficient water - you should never let tomato plants dry out - and yet not overwater them. they are possibly small due to the odd weather conditions this year or perhaps they are a different species to last years

Answer 6

I would suggest a couple of good feedings to start with.  You can get fish oil emulsion to feed them with (organic) or use a chemical fertilizer according to the directions.

If it's been dry where you live, more water will certainly help.  Water deeply and stick to a consistent schedule.  Irregular watering contributes to "blossom end rot" disease by creating a low calcium level in the plant/fruit.  

If it's dry here (PA), I water usually every other day....  For better results next year, add compost, dehydrated cow manure, leaf mold (shredded leaves) or fertilizer to your soil to replace the nutrients your plants have used the previous year.  

In order for the plants to feed us, we need to feed the soil!

Answer 7

You do not plant "nightshade" plants in the same spot or same soil as the year before..You are supposed to rotate your garden or pots and grow something that requires different soil values and nutrients than the season before...More than likely the nutrients that are required to grow tomatoes have been drained from the season before..there may also be a unhidden start of vercilum wilt fungi in the soil..another reason why you rotate your crops..the previous season there could have been a fungi just starting that hinders tomatoes but  close to harvest and the tomatoes then did  fine..but contaminants from that plant may be in the soil... preventing proper growth of the same family..tomatoes are in the nightshade family..

Pictures of my garden..I rotate my crops every season and do not grow the same family of plants in the same plot..

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