MOFishin wrote:Don't feel bad. This is my second year growing a garden. My tomatoes ALL did great the first year. This year, 2 of my 4 "Early Girl" tomato plants already look like goners.
Thanks, it does make me feel a bit better knowing I'm not the only one with tomato issues. My first batch I had 6 hybrid plum tomatoes called Health Kick. My damn dog dug them up! The roots didn't look damaged or anything but it killed them. This set I just went and got 4 Roma tomatoes since I just planned on using tomatoes for homemade tomato sauce. We eat a lot of Italian food and go through a
lot of sauce. 2 of the 4....well, you saw how pathetic the photo was. Then, I went out this morning and a third one had died. The last one seems to have perked up and seems alright. The stem doesn't seem as limp. I do have a couple cherry tomatoes (two in one pot) that I am gonna do some extra hardening off and plant. I was going to return them but when I saw my other plants not making it I figured I'd give cherries a try. But now I gotta go get more tomato plants. If I want any decent amount of sauce to use and not buy any I'm gonna need a lot of tomatoes haha! But I'm gonna get a food mill and use the cherries for sauces too. But man, I am so sad that I can't seem to get the tomatoes to actually survive. Part of me does wonder if it's getting colder at night than the forecast says it is supposed to. It says it's above 50 but I wonder if the last few nights it's been dipping a little lower which may not be so great for new transplants. I dunno. First tomato growing season. I'll keep a better eye on the weather. It has been pretty weird.