Master Gardener, HA,HA!

PATIENCE ANTIQUELADY PATIENCE,kids and gardening require that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!on a serious note,doesnt tomato plants take longer to bud?i had once planted a tomato seed in a pot for my daughters science projects but it didnt bud either!maybe we should have a brown club or something of that sort!!!!!!

I share the brown thumb with you....I know if I planted something it wouldn't do squat! So I quite trying. I don't even really plant flowers except in pots! They have had it now for the season but this is the first year they looked really nice! Maybe there is hope for us yet!

HI lady! I sure wish I could send you some of our tomatoes and green peppers right along with the green beans! There is only 2 of us and I can't find nayone to give them away too! My husband has this nice garden that he keeps puttering in and I just watch him then he brings in the produce, I am not sure what he thinks I am suppose to do with it. I had a great fear here this week. We have had no mail for a week! Not even the junk mail. Why has all our mail stopped? I thought of identy theft and have to admit it really scared me. Yesterday I called the postoffice after 5 days of no mail......today they delivered a big package of mail....they had been holding it! Got me mixed up with someone else by the same first name!!!!! Would make a good topic don't you think!!!! Not sure I have time to answer them anymore.

Not laughing.... I hope you like peppers.

Don't give up on gardening. Maybe next year the weather will cooperate and you'll have tomatoes and peppers for the whole block.

Well you might have brown thumbs, but mine are BLACK!!! I have the worse luck with gardening so don't feel bad. I am sorry you didn't have any luck with your plants. :-( Maybe it is all this heat we are having down here. My parents usually have tons of tomatoes and peppers (the only two things they grow) and I know this year that have had terrible luck! Better luck next year ;-)

Tomatoes are one of the hardest plants to grow. You have to put stuff on it to keep the bugs away. Plenty of water, even stakes so the plant won't tip over once it starts growing. Give it time, especially if you planted late in the season. My dad normally has little buds in make shift pots in the house before spring planting even starts. Peppers on the other hand are fast growers and are easy to deal with. I remember growing up and helping my parents in the garden. We had corn, tomatoes, squash, peppers, egg plants, etc. It was a huge garden with every area planted with something. So, you don't have a brown thumb. I should know at least you got little peppers and flowers on the tomato plants. I couldn't even get carrots to grow. Only thing I could manage to get to grow was garlic and I was only able to get 2 bulbs, and from what I seen of my neighbor's garden. You just need to have a few planted and you will get more garlic than you started with each year. So this fall, you should have ripe tomatos.

Jo, You'd be a great gardener if you had the knowledge of what to do so don't beat yourself up! Next time you get a tomato plant, go to Southern States or some other farmers store and get some good soil. Usually the store brand is much cheaper than miracle grow. Put the soil in the hole then put your tomato plant in and cover it up with good soil. Once your tomato plants get about knee high, you're to cut off the very top part, about 6 inches or so because it'll make your plant grow outward instead of straight up. Pick certain days to water it and continue doing that so your tomatoes will grow and not have cut like edges on them. You should water them at least 2 times a week if not more. As for your green pepper plant, I'm not sure about that however, I'd use the good dirt to plant them in so they'd get the nutrients that they need and water them as well. I have 5 tomato plants and tomatoes are growing out of my deg gone ears!! I've had to get rid of a lot of them and hubby's been freezing them too. I wish so much I could send you some!!

Hi ANTIQULADY Yes I must admit I did have a bit of giggle at your situation but then as you read my response from your last discussion I am not green fingered in the slightest so I am in no position to advise you in any way, shape or form haha

Hi there Antiquelady! I was not laughing till I read on "y'ALL CAN QUIT LAUGHING NOW, LOL". haha. I really wish your tomatoes will show up soon. It makes me excited too. I was reading on tomatoes last time. How long since you planted it? From what I read, it takes a lot of weeks. Try putting natural fertilizers, like compost. Make your own compost, it's not difficult. I really hope thoe tomatoes will grow soon.

LOL..maybe it is not to late for tomatoes. There are some fine looking tomato plants just up the street that are just getting little tomatoes on them.

We have clay for our ground, so not a lot grows here either. I've put tomato plants down every year. I usually get lots of cherry tomatoes, but the big ones just wither and die. This year was weird through and through. My hubs went to a lot of trouble bringing good dirt up and putting it over the garden. So I planted lots of tomatoes, sweet corn, lettuce, green beans, peas, and onions. The lettuce was so horribly bitter, I gave it to the chickens. They loved it. (No accounting for taste) The green beans did nothing. The peas gave us about 20 little peas in all, and they were over. The sweet corn grew big and tall, with nothing else on it. We mowed it down eventually. The onions only got a bit over quarter sized and then rotted. The big tomatoes are strange. They will look orange one day, but the next they're rotting on the vine. The cherries are fine, but tasteless. It's been a strange year. We're in Iowa, the Land of Eternal Rain (or so it seems). That might have something to do with the weirdness. Or it could be just me!

I know what you mean. I have been told that it is often the soil compound and the fertilizer. some keeps plants green and rapid foliage growth. It maybe that number is high, while the others are low. Fertilizer has 3 numbers, not sure what they mean, but know the first is foliage growth. We have some planted in pots, others in tires and others down on the ground. I find my tires do tomatoes quite well, i think because of the extra heat. Good luck.

hmm seems she is playing with you... try talking to her... I don't feel like laughing.. I know how sad we feel when our work yields no results.. thanks for the topic.. have a great day/night....

im just like you. no green thumb here either, sorry i cant help. Once i had the same kind of tomatoe plants. they just kept growing, no tomatoes on them. but at least you got peppers. i couldnt get my peppers or green beans to produce eithersorry

Yes, I am laughing so very much at the picture of you looking for tomatoes each day. Did they flower? I do hope that the peppers grow biggerDid you fertilise the tomatoes? Many blessings and I think that I should say a few prayers for the tomatoes too

onekilogram tomato how much in USA(in tennesse). Here in unseason reaches to one dollar. Now it is rainy season the rates are in normal.