Tomato Plant
 

My tomato plant is just ridiculous, over 5' tall and although staked, hanging
over the side of a raised bed. It's not producing many tomatoes, and those
small. It's an Early Girl, I think. Can it be pruned back so the foliage
isn't sucking up all the energy? My first year trying to grow anything, sorry
but I admit I'm not tomato literate. : )

Nancy

Tomato Plant
 

rom: (Nanceemo)

My tomato plant is just ridiculous, over 5' tall and although staked, hanging
over the side of a raised bed. It's not producing many tomatoes, and those
small. It's an Early Girl, I think. Can it be pruned back so the foliage
isn't sucking up all the energy? My first year trying to grow anything,
sorry
but I admit I'm not tomato literate. : )

Nancy

Possible causes: excess nitrogen fertilizer causing green groeth at the
expense of fruit-avoid addinmg any nitrogen fertilizer---exces heat over 90
degrees can can affect fruit set adversly--a combination of both these
condirions

Tomato Plant
 

My tomato plant is just ridiculous, over 5' tall and although staked,
hanging
over the side of a raised bed. It's not producing many tomatoes, and those
small. It's an Early Girl, I think. Can it be pruned back so the foliage
isn't sucking up all the energy? My first year trying to grow anything,
sorry
but I admit I'm not tomato literate. : )

Nancy



My Early Girl's went nuts this year too. Easily 4 feet wide and 5 feet
tall, but the best part is that the yield has been great too! The foliage
hasn't seemed to hinder the fruiting at all.
Lori

Tomato Plant
 

On 30 Aug 2003 05:34:30 GMT, (Nanceemo) wrote:

My tomato plant is just ridiculous, over 5' tall and although staked, hanging
over the side of a raised bed. It's not producing many tomatoes, and those
small. It's an Early Girl, I think. Can it be pruned back so the foliage
isn't sucking up all the energy? My first year trying to grow anything, sorry
but I admit I'm not tomato literate. : )

Nancy

Give it time. Most tomato plants look like something between a bush
and a vine, depending on staking, suckering, water, variety, etc. It
needs foliage to make food for the plant, and it needs plenty of
sunshine to produce fruit. Give it a light feeding of fertilizer
every 3 weeks.

Tomato Plant
 

Nanceemo wrote:

My tomato plant is just ridiculous, over 5' tall and although staked, hanging
over the side of a raised bed. It's not producing many tomatoes, and those
small. It's an Early Girl, I think. Can it be pruned back so the foliage
isn't sucking up all the energy? My first year trying to grow anything, sorry
but I admit I'm not tomato literate. : )

Nancy

Depending on where you live, this was not a great year for
tomatoes. At this point, unless you live in the deep south,
pruning back isn't going to be very productive; the plant will
die with the first frost.

Chris Owens


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