Roma Tomato plants very small

by Ellen Peavey
(Colbert, Georgia)

I have a raised bed with Roma tomatoes in it only, they were started inside and transplanted out the end of May this year. My question is why are they still so small and only a few of them actually have tomatoes on them? Do I need to get some thing to fertilize them? I used compost when I was filling the bed and organic soil. What can I do to get them to produce tomatoes?

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Roma Tomato plants very small

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Jul 18, 2011

hungry tomatoes?
by: Anonymous

hi, Ellen....sounds like your tomatoes might be waiting for some extra food. I give mine a spraying of some liquid fertilizer -- Miracle Gro -- twice a month, and a small handful of epsom salts a couple of times a year.

we had such dry weather all through May and June, the rains these past 3 weeks have really helped, but after the extreme hot weather, all the large tomatoes are splitting open. the romas are thriving, tho! Hope yours recover and grow wild!

good luck....Ellen Bradford

Jul 18, 2011

Ellen's Little Tomatoes
by: Kiwi George

Hi Ellen, yep, been there but found the cure. I love Roma tomatoes for their shape and taste and feed them seaweed both as a mulch around then and also as a foliar feed, I have found kelp to be the preferred type although it all depends what Mother Nature has delivered to our nearby beach after a storm. This has resulted in a great bug and disease free crop and more importantly to me, has allowed me to delete toxic sprays from my gardening philosophy as one of the side issues of a "dicky ticker" has been an extreme sensitivity to poisons etc.
Happy picking
George

Sep 29, 2011

Roma Tomato
by: Ellen

I finally had to pull up what was left all failed only got about 20 tomato's out of twenty four plants. I used a liquid plant feed for tomato's . I think it was in the soil next year will have more compost in the bottom of the bed and better soil. This is our first year here so it is a learning experience and will be better next year. I have a big compost pile I'm working from now and it helps that I have Buford my donkey who makes daily deposits of Golden Nuggets in the pasture, which I shovel up every day and move to empty raised beds and big compost pile. Thanks for all the suggestions. Ellen

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