Planted these back in early April (prob too late?) – A Better Big Boy and a Black Krim.
Growth started strong, trimmed a lot (maybe not enough?), decent amount of flowers, seems like good amount of sun, water nearly every day, has great drainage (if I skip a day the plants are limp), infrequent fertilizer (some natural stuff, rather not use chemicals).
Yield to date: 2 ~not~ Big Boys. Zero Black Krim.
WTH?
by No-Description-6015
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How deep are those beds? They look way too shallow to support tomatoes from the pictures. Early April is a little late I would say. I full sent it around Valentine’s Day, and frankly it was a good tomato year. Lots of spring rain and mild temperatures until late May, which has been the tomato cutoff the past few years for all varieties except cherries and very hardy heat tolerant slicers, of which Black Krim is included, but those two things I mentioned are working against you.
Bed depth is for sure an issue… also…. You cannot water tomato’s every day and expect fruit unfortunately. They make fruit when stressed a bit. So unfortunately I don’t think these will ever produce for you
How hot is it by you right now? Also they look real comfortable, very well put together,maybe a little stress?
I have a few tomato plants that haven’t produced any fruit yet either.
I’d try and give it more support and pruning the suckers, they pull energy from blossoming and producing fruit.
How much sun do they get? Also, the comments about shallow soil are correct. I’d replace this setup with an actual raised bed filled with soil. No need to prune suckers or have plants far from one another. In fact, plants grow much better and produce tons of fruit when in top of each other.
I agree with others that they’re pretty shallow. I’d add more soil to fill up the those boxes as much as possible. As for fruiting, I’m on my third year of growing tomatoes and I just can’t get them to fruit much in the spring/early summer. I just keep them going until fall and I always end up with hundreds of tomatoes once the weather cools a bit. My garden gets super hot all summer and the only thing that will produce for me in this heat is okra.