Comments on: What To Do About Tomato Flowers Falling Off https://gardenbetty.com/tomato-blossom-drop/ Gardening made easy, life made simpler. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Patty Peppers https://gardenbetty.com/tomato-blossom-drop/comment-page-1/#comment-75283 Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:33:48 +0000 https://gardenbetty.com/?p=61616#comment-75283 Thanks Linda for all your trustworthy and interesting articles/blog. My veggie garden looks so healthy and productive this year thanks to info you and your lively followers bestowed. I have been ensuring temps below 90 in my greenhouse and keeping the aphids at bay from my peppers, etc. No blossom drop this year but has effected my hot peppers in years past.
I live in se Bend and 1 year into following Garden Betty. I appreciate your updated repeats of previous articles. keep ’em coming : )

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By: Gregory Cantalope https://gardenbetty.com/tomato-blossom-drop/comment-page-1/#comment-75259 Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:57:09 +0000 https://gardenbetty.com/?p=61616#comment-75259 I like to use grass clippings for mulch around my tomatoes holds the moisture in the soil seems to do well

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By: Dan Hemenway https://gardenbetty.com/tomato-blossom-drop/comment-page-1/#comment-75258 Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:21:44 +0000 https://gardenbetty.com/?p=61616#comment-75258 Great post, Linda! I think i mentioned in an earlier reply that in north central Florida I started my tomato plants quite early and and kept potting them up as they grew, waiting for my onions, grown over the winter, to mature in their big containers. I like to follow plants with unrelated plants. With the tomato in the center of the pot, I can plant vining crops, usually cornfield beans and Malabar spinach around one of those tapered tomato cages. I used tall poles to prevent the cage from falling over from the weight of the tomatoes and the vine crops make use of them. They also provide some shade to the tomatoes. A little extra nitrogen ensures that the tomato blossoms are usually shaded. In Florida, I never got the yields that I got in a cold microclimate in Western Massachusetts. Fungal diseases love the hot humid Florida climate. The only way to get a good yield, organically, was to have pots in two or three gallon pots ready to go into the containers as soon as they were ready. Initialy we had major issues with hornworm, but these diminished over time. (The climate warmed from zone 8 to zone 9, but I have no idea if that affected the hornworms. Possibly, as bird population increased, there was more predation.). A few years we would have a plant that would bear for months–I never was able to concoct a theory as to what the variable was. We never had problems with blossom drop. I found that ‘Celebrity’ hybrid was far more reliable and productive than the other 16 varieties we tried. Last year, in Vermont, we grew one improved ‘Celebrity Plus’ and it outyielded all my daughter’s tomatoes hands down and had almost no leaf fungal problems. It was also the best tomato I ever tasted. She had unmistakeable hornworm damage, in one bed but we never found the hornworms and it did not recur. I think being bird friendly saved her plants. I suspect it was crows. A hornworm is a snack for a crow and they have to be omnivores to keep themselves fed.

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