Fall Garden ...

[BadgeBunny]

Seeds ... Bok choy sound good ... Hmmmm ...

I'm less about doing a lot and having stuff to can and more about doing a little bit every week so I have something fresh to harvest continually. I've turned into something of a rabbit and having little bitty carrot and beet plants (where I can just eat the whole thing in a salad) really appeals to me. I might need a bigger greenhouse than this itty-bitty one we have now ... Let's see how the winter goes ... Maybe I can talk GC into turning the patio into a garden room ...

We also have a tomato plant that looks like a friggin' tree, has a millon blooms and no fruit. BUT I know why that is ... "SOMEBODY" around here put chicken poo on it to fertilize ... I'm pretty damn sure the plant got too much nitrogen ...

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Seeds ... Bok choy sound good ... Hmmmm ...

I'm less about doing a lot and having stuff to can and more about doing a little bit every week so I have something fresh to harvest continually. I've turned into something of a rabbit and having little bitty carrot and beet plants (where I can just eat the whole thing in a salad) really appeals to me. I might need a bigger greenhouse than this itty-bitty one we have now ... Let's see how the winter goes ... Maybe I can talk GC into turning the patio into a garden room ...

We also have a tomato plant that looks like a friggin' tree, has a millon blooms and no fruit. BUT I know why that is ... "SOMEBODY" around here put chicken poo on it to fertilize ... I'm pretty damn sure the plant got too much nitrogen ...

Roll up a newspaper and beat that tomato plant. Seriously slap it around.

 

[7stw]

Still waiting for some tomatoes to ripen from the couple we planted in the spring. Strangest tomato plants I have even seen. The plants grew huge and spread all over the place, but did not really start putting on fruit until about a week ago.

I understand tomatoes can be overwatered. And with all the rain we had early mine where about the same. Also I had a master Gardner tell me to mix Epsom salt and water and and they would make hartier fruit and mine did. 1part Epsom salt to 4 part water.

 

[swampratt]

Yep some years i beat my plants with a stick'
This year the roots stayed damp plants grew huge...
i beat a couple and even broke limbs back a few times..
2 of them big ones just would not put on.. i plucked them out

 

[rickb2202]

Tomatoes have been slow to set here in nm too. They are loaded with green tomatoes now

 

[Davs2601]

I have produced 3 cherry tomatoes this year....not sure what the problem is

 

[abinok]

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[dennishoddy]

I'll bet I have a hundred pounds of green tomato's on my vines. Getting ready to start pickling them.

 

[okietom]

Roll up a newspaper and beat that tomato plant. Seriously slap it around.

This. A little distress will make a tomatoe start growing fruit instead of vine. Cutting the roots can do the same, or just trimming the vines. There is an art or method for trimming that I have read of but never done.