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cats are easier to care for than houseplants, great tomato suicide, green and growing things, I am not good with plants, tomato plants
I need your help…
I’m not very good with plants as a general rule. They don’t tell you when they’re hungry or thirsty and they get strange beasties and diseases that require a long time to get better.
But we bought a tomato plant, which I love dearly and want to prosper. Growing up in the States I never really thought about tomatoes needing much care. The summer was hot, you got tomatoes, end of story. There was even the Great Tomato Suicide one summer when we went on holiday for two weeks and came back to 6 foot high plants surrounded by the internal gubbins of all the over-ripe tomatoes who had leapt to their death. It was a little scary…
Now we have these tiny tomatoes I want them to be happy… I think I need to put some more stakes in the pot to support the other vines, and I’m feeding them tomato food as regularly as I can remember to (about once a week..ish) but I don’t know what else to do!
As some kind of demonstration of my plant-based ineptitude I have a selection of pots sitting cheek by jowl in front of the house who I water roughly at the same interval, half of them are too dry and the other half have teeny flies which the Internet tells me are due to overwatering…. sigh.
