When last we left our heros, on Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:49:36 -0400,
Pat Meadows scribbled:

On 28 Jun 2003 11:37:37 -0700,
(Missy) wrote:

This year I planted 14 tomato plants. They did very well at first,
but now have stopped growing. I have plenty of tomato's on them, but
they dont' seem to be making any more, and the plants have died down
a lot. It's been pretty wet in my garden, we've been getting a lot
of rain.. Any suggestions?

What have the temps been? Cold and wet tomatoes aren't happy
campers.


If they are determinate tomato plants, then they'll get most
(all?) of their tomatoes and stop growing.

Indeterminate tomatoes keep growing until frost-killed
(forever, in warm climates, I suppose - anyway, a long
time).

I usually have a pretty generous growing season, first frost
some years isn't until almost Thanksgiving, but I find the
most tomato plants seem to peter out by October at the latest,
and a lot of those don't make it through the August heat.. A few
will still be spitting out green tomatoes until the first hard
freeze, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

Russian Silvery Fur Tree tomatoes are one of my favorites
for just that reason. They start producing early, take a break
during the worst of the heat, then crank back up in September.
Sadly, they have proved especially vulnerable to the biological
weapons of the dastardly spit!Thrips.

I didn't plant any this year as it seems an exercise in futility,
but I know I'm gonna miss 'em come fall.

Pam



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