Growing Tomatoes

My Sungold

If you are going to spend more money growing tomatoes than buying it at the farmer's market, DON'T GROW IT. If you are going to buy soil, fertilizer, and a tomato plant, misc.. stuff like a tomato cage, twine, more fertilizer, then don't bother. That will set you back about $50 dollars or more. Now if you have tomato cages, twine and you have soil or soil in nursery pots that just needs to be amended, then you can think about it. Seriously, growing your tomatoes can be rewarding but if you are shelling out money and you end up at the end of the season with a measly amount of tomatoes, then you are going to be let down. Sometimes, I hate growing tomatoes but I do it because I know for the $1.99 heirloom plants times 3- that I bought 20 miles away at local Japanese nursery in the Valley will either disappoint me or make me happy. It will be like buying myself two cups of Café Latte. Then I also have backup tomato plants that were free planted nearby just in case it all fails. I already have the soil, the fertilizer, the means to make growing my tomatoes cheap.  I have 5 tomato plants and supplement them with tomatoes grown from seed. So far, I had to take one out. The three have been cut back due to blight that goes around in the community garden plot. If you grow tomatoes with other people, you will have problems. Just leave your tomatoes alone and do not overwater unless it looks limp in the morning. Plus, I garden where it is mostly overcast in the summer it is cool. The tomatoes can take a beating with that kind of weather. When it is August or September, the weather is amazingly great. Then I plant my cucumbers. I am going to keep my fingers crossed!


My Big Rainbow

My Aunt Ruby's German Green