With lots of green 'maters on the vines, I've been carefully mulching and fertilising and hand-picking pests off them. Then it rained. And rained. And sprinkled some more, just to keep everything nice and boggy.
And now my 'maters look like this.
Splitting and rotting on the vines.
Dammit!
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You win some, you lost some I guess
Good on you for having a try.. shame it didn't work out.
Kind Regards
Belinda
Yup, you win some, you lose some -vegie gardening is like that isn't it? LOL.
Hi Julie. I am north of you in south east Qld and about 50% of our tomatoes look like that at the moment. I'm not giving up and have planted out some more. The cherry toms just keep on keeping on though :-)Lots of other things popping up in the garden to look forward to now that the cooler weather is here. Every cloud has a silver lining.
Linda
Oh Julie, don't they look dreadful! I feel for you! So far so good here but I am still crossing my fingers. We have also had almost continuous rain and I fear a similar fate.
I have grubs in the broccoli and caulies.
So far, my experience in this game is you lose more than you win!
"Chin up"
Patricia
scary martoes those ones! Bummer they didn't work out ... this time ;)
Send some of that rain this way, please. We haven't had rain in well over a month (and it's still spring!). It's the driest it's been since the 1930s.
But those poor tomatoes... Hard to put all that work into 'em and have 'em look like that. Ah, maybe next year will be better.
My Roma has green fruit on it, its in a pot, and inspired by your reported success with over wintering last year I moved him down into a sunnier, slightly sheltered spot , with a remote hope one might ripen ... lol. If not nothing lost, as I am totally surprised it is still flowering anyway! Of course since I moved him, it has been grey and raining every day ... Oh well
Hi Linda,
Argh, it's frustrating isn't it? If it isn't pests it's the weather LOL. Still, it's all worth it to grow your own compared to supermarket ones.
Hi Patricia,
It's a bit like that isn't it? My first year I certainly lost more than I gained but I'm getting a little more canny as I gain experience so don't give up :-)
Hi Kristy,
Oh I'm definitely going to try again LOL - we like our tomatoes too much!
Hi Megs,
Mate, I would if I could! It's so dry elsewhere that I feel quite guilty complaining about the rain...
Hi Tammy James,
Fingers crossed for your Romas :-) I suspect yours will be doing better in a pot as it won't be so waterlogged as mine...
Cheers guys,
Julie
Hi Julie, Don't feel bad - My tomatoes looked like that last summer (I'm 2 hours south of Sydney). The only tomatoes that did any good around here were the self-seeded cherry tomatoes that bobbed up all around the garden (and which incidentally are still producing). Gardening's like that!
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