We made some DIY hanging tomato bags out of the nylon mesh shopping bags
everyone has nowadays. They have them at all grocery stores and we got ours
at Walmart for like 50 cents each, big blue bags, reusable shopping bags.
They are not Nylon, not sure what it is called. We bought one of the ten
dollar ones and made two more DIY ones. They are technically working fine
so far but the tomatoes are slow to start and got VERY windblown last month,
probably a little too early to plant. Two are quite stunted as something
either gnawed at the stem or the stem got damaged by the wind. The ones
that are healthy have blooms but continue to try to grow up bumping into the
bottom of the bag. We planted 100 tomato plants in the ground around 3-24
and those are doing better than the ones in the bags. Not sure we will use
all the other bags we bought, I had wanted to do Cucumbers, Squash and other
Veggies in the bags to keep them off the ground. Not a lot of time to work
on that now though. I will post a photo if anyone is interested in seeing
them.


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Rita Foust
Garland, TX
Zone 7b-8a
Farmer Jones Eco-Friendly Plants & Produce
http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M10383
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Here in Houston, Texas, we've had tomato blossoms for about 3 weeks,
now.. but no tomatoes.
Maybe it's too-early in the season? However, this is a big change for
the better compared to last year -
when the days were so hot the blossoms would drop about a two or two
after opening!

Kelly Paul Graham

On Apr 22, 10:57 pm, "Steve B" wrote:
I was at Walgreens the other day, and saw those little plastic upside
down
tomato bags. $10 each .......... I don't think so.

I can make some out of five gallon buckets that would be sturdier, and I
can
get buckets free.

Does anyone grow tomatoes like this? It seems like it would be a good
deal,
you would only have to make a substantial support, which I can do. It
seems
like the tomatoes would not have to be pinched back as much, and the
chances
of splitting stems would be reduced.

We do get wind here, so should I put them next to a wind break?

Steve
XXtreme SW Utah
3700' elev
zone 7-8

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I lived in Lafayette, Louisiana for about eight years, where I learned to
garden. There, you can just about throw some seeds around and stuff would
grow. Remember, I said, "just about". It was actually real work,
tilling, hoeing, weeding, watering, fertilizing, just like anywhere else.
But the humidity was always so high that even if it did get hot, it would
be okay. Like Houston. I lived in Houston, Seabrook, and Galveston, too.

Tomatos have a problem called blossom drop, and that is what you have
described. Night time temperatures are too high, and the blossoms fall
off. There was a spray that one could use that had some type of adhesive
on it that made it better.

But in LA, during the summer, there was a time also where the tomatos quit
setting, but then started again to form some tomatos before it got cold.

HTH

Steve

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