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Up here in our latitude, we're lucky to get one crop ripe by the end of our hottest months.
Same here. By the end of August we get a ton of tomatoes all at once. Then we pull up the plants and huddle indoors until next spring. OP, Where do you live?
Do you try to keep your tomato plants alive and healthy during the hottest months? Or do you give up on them after your first crop is harvested?
Determinate varieties are usually good for a short period, good for canning as they come all at once.
Indeterminate varieties bloom and fruit all season, but tomatoes in general do poorly when the temps reach 90 degrees, when most will not set fruit.
Same here. By the end of August we get a ton of tomatoes all at once. Then we pull up the plants and huddle indoors until next spring. OP, Where do you live?
Mississippi.
Some people keep their tomatoes watered with an occasional dose of fertilizer during July and August, hoping for a second crop starting in September. By then, however, the plants are usually infected with some sort of disease like Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus. Only a few varieties are bred for TSWV resistance, and they’re all determinatesthat don’t taste much better than a greenhouse tomato.
I planted my first tomatoes the first week of April and they have set a few fruit.
You mound them, pinch them, fertilize them. Then you make babies for a second planting. Sturdy branch with two leaves rooted in water, planted with rooting powder and a prayer.
I have given up here in zone 8. In Ohio and other northern states, the tomato crops were good.
Here in Georgia the temperatures get too hot, too early for tomatoes to set fruit. If you manage to get a few tomatoes you are lucky.
here in southwest Florida tomato season is about over..it's getting too hot..but I had some good ones this year..planted in an earthbox with Mother Earth Terracraft potting mix..good stuff..buy it on amazon or a local hydro shop..
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