So I've begun to encounter my first real problem. A couple of the tomato plants are dropping their larger bottom leaves. I'm thinking I made a mistake when transplanting into the larger pots. I used regular soil when transplanting but I probably should have still used the very light seed starting mix, or maybe half-and-half. The current soil is just a little too heavy for these little guys and holds in too much water for too long when watering. So right now, as you can see, one of my little tomato guys is the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Hopefully he will continue to live and start to thrive as he gets a little larger (and goes to the great outdoors). ~
So, when I look back on this next year I need to make a note to self - use very light soil even when transplanting into larger pots. After all, the main reason I wanted to keep a gardening diary was to learn from my mistakes...so this has been most helpful for me, though not so much for the tomatoes!
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Little plant from little seed
Why is it that you lean?
Your leaves they don't look quite the same
as they did just yesterday!
Congratulations, Lisa.
ReplyDeleteAbout your tomato plant: I used to grow a lot of tomatoes. One year we had 200 beef steak tomatoes and did we ever have gorgeous tomatoes! So huge the slices were bigger than a salad plate! Anyway, I just thought I would mention that to have your little tomato plants grow quickly and strong, the more stem you put in the ground, the stronger the plant will be. It will put on roots where all that little fur is up and down the stem. Maybe you already knew this, but I really did put most of the plant underground, close to where the leaves started - we had real good success that way.
Ruth
Thanks for sharing. This little guy started out with his stem buried but then lost his bottom leaves! He's doing better now :-)
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