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Just found a photo from my first week trying to grow tomatoes
It was a single sad plant in a pot on my apartment balcony in 2022, maybe three tiny leaves. I stuck with it, moved to a place with a small yard, and this morning I picked over twenty cherry tomatoes from four big plants. The change came from learning to prune the suckers and using a cheap soil test kit. What's a small win you've seen from sticking with something?
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anderson.piper7d ago
How did you even know to prune the suckers? I used to think more leaves meant more fruit, so I let my plants get all wild and tangled. Then I saw a video where someone snipped those little side shoots off, and their plant looked just like a main stem with fruit branches. Tried it on my jalapenos last year and got twice as many peppers. What was the biggest thing the soil test told you to fix?
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marywilson7d ago
My soil test showed a huge nitrogen shortage, like @anderson.piper said it's the basic stuff you miss. I started adding coffee grounds to the dirt every few weeks. The plants went from yellow to green so fast it was stupid.
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the_alice7d ago
Coffee grounds are such a weird fix, but they totally work! It's like the plants just needed a caffeine boost to get their act together. My tomatoes looked like sad ghosts before I tried that trick.
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