Petee Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Now is the time to remove any tomatoes or blossoms from your plants that will not have time to develop and ripen. You can trim off the tip of the plant to force it to ripen fruit that is almost ready. http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/4dmg/VegFruit/ripening.htm sapphire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ickywood Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I am NOT trimming my tomatoes!!! How dare you!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Mungaknuts Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 6 plants have only gotten 5 tomatoes. I am not planting anymore for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted August 20, 2013 Author Share Posted August 20, 2013 Soil test, Tomato food, Epsom Salts, full sunshine, bees, lots of water and good drainage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WMJ77 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 our toms did pretty good this year and we grew some okra for first time and it did well also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted August 20, 2013 Author Share Posted August 20, 2013 OK, what all did you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WMJ77 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 used organic compost, weed barrier and thats about it....we have had better years of tom or maybe we just planted more plants those years......but the okra we got off of you is doing good I guess, never grew it before but we got some Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted August 20, 2013 Author Share Posted August 20, 2013 You did good! I've had Okra in the past but not enough to do more than add to vegetable soup in the fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 http://gardening.about.com/od/growingtips/qt/Green_Tomato.htm?nl=1 Here are some tips to keep your tomato plants healthy into the fall season and for getting those green tomatoes to ripen on the vine or how to salvage the obstinate tomatoes you actually have to pick while still green. 1.Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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