Help, first time growing tomato’s
The picture is of the one which is doing the worst but I have 7 and they all are doing pretty poor.
They get between 8-12 hours of day depending on the location.
I water with dripper/mister for 20 minutes a day. Weather atm is up and down but hot Adelaide Australia weather. So can be hot and dry.
Tips?
Note: have broccoli in same area and some fruit trees, both are doing well
by odbb7
4 Comments
Looks like it might be powdery white mildew
Try cutting the bottom off of a 2 liter soda bottle. Take the cap off and throw it away. Heat a nail on the stove burners and use the hot nail to melt holes around the top opening and then multiple holes up to 8 – 10 from the opening. Plant the bottle, top opening down, into the soil next to the plant. Leave just 1 – 2 cm of the cut bottom above soil level.
Fill the bottle with water. This lets the water seep out of the holes you made at the bottom area of the roots of the plant. This is well below the top soil area that will dry out quickly. Water in the morning as most plants don’t take up water at night.
The YouTube link above shows the same idea but they planted the soda bottle bottom down. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TueZ18zvjUs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TueZ18zvjUs)
Good luck.
You’re soil appears to be too dry. Use a cheap water meter. And a good 2-3 inches/5-7 cms of mulch. If that is the broccoli that is barely showing to the right in the picture…it’s not doing great. It appears to be a bit dry as well.
If fruit trees are in the same bed or general vicinity…their roots will suck all of the water out of a bed leaving very little for other plants like tomatoes. Fruit trees are water hogs. Some shallow rooting plants like strawberries do better under fruit trees. Tomatoes can have issues sharing neighborhoods with fruit trees.
Cheap water meter works just fine.
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Thanks for the info!