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Do you beat your tomato plants?

{ 07:23, Monday, June 11, 2007 } { Posted in Homestead Dreams } { 2 comments } { Link }

Now bear with me, all this is new to me. I have two fairly large tomato plants growing in pots my back door. I noticed that they were flowering, but then the flowers looked like they were dying. So wondering if this was normal, I called my mother and she said she didn't know for sure, but she remembered overhearing her grandma talking about beating her plants?! I thought she was nuts, but she said it helps with pollination or something. So is she nuts or what? Also, my leaves are drying out. I water my plants whenever they feel dry, and spray the leaves down usually daily. Is there anything I can do? Here's some pictures and there's also a picture of my strawberry plant in my old wash tub. I'm not sure why, but I've not gotten any more berries since I transplanted them into there? The plant looks healthy. I feel so dumb when it comes to gardening and all, but we all have to start somewhere, huh?

 


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{ 07:06, Tuesday, June 12, 2007 } { Posted by Mickey }
I haven't tried beating mine... =)
Someone -I saved the link and forgot who posted it =(
had a link to tomato deficiencies:
http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/min-def/tomatoes.htm
that might help??

Hmmm . . . .

{ 11:17, Tuesday, June 12, 2007 } { Posted by Jonash2004 }
I doubt the leaves need spraying? I've heard/been told to water in the mornings, so that the leaves aren't wet by nightfall which might encourage fungus.

I remember a story about a boy during the Dust Bowl who was watering the dusty leaves on a tree and his dad got mad because the precious water was needed at the roots, that's really all I'm going off of here, maybe tomatoes need sprayed like houseplants??

They still look really healthy to me - I have six tomatoes and they have a few sprigs of yellow at the very base and I thought this was b/c a lack of sunlight reaching them!

Don't know if any of this helps!
Ashley

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