FINALLY

[Reinbeau]

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You may have given them too much fertilizer, especially nitrogen, that'll promote green, leafy growth and few flowers.

 

[Sillystunt]

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Did you see any bees this year? Some places are seeing really dramatic fluctuations in the bee population and even having to get them imported from other states.

That would make sense. I did see a couple in my yard. I saved one from the pool, yeah i know LAUGH~

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

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Here's an article that may interest you.

http://environment.about.com/od/biodiversityconservation/a/honeybees.htm

 

[Sillystunt]

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You may have given them too much fertilizer, especially nitrogen, that'll promote green, leafy growth and few flowers.

I never really fertilized. I thought that's what was wrong so i threw on goat compost and cut them back(had some shriveling of the leaves)

 

[Reinbeau]

In another post someone mentioned bees - tomatoes are self-pollinating, so you don't need bees there, although you need them everywhere else!

No flowers at all? How big are the plants?

 

[ibpboo]

My tomatoes were growing. usually it is hard to get them to grow in my yard. There were quite of few of them, and then, yesterday when I came home, oh my gosh, I think a gopher got the roots, it is all wilted and sad.

 

[TammyTX]

Our tomatoes down here will set fruit, ripen and then when it gets too hot they quit blooming until it cools down again. The trick is to know when to prune the plants back so you can get it to bloom again when the weather cools.

We get tomatoes until Thanksgiving unless there is a early hard freeze.

 

[DuckLady]

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Not using any for fried green tomatoes Terrie? Did I not teach you anything??

Oh I love fried green tomatoes! It is just hard to sacrifice a huge slicer when in a few weeks it is tomato and sweet onion on sourdough time.

 

[usschicago1]

I just finished reading time magazine that i got yesterday and here is an exerpt.
9. ILLINOIS
NEW CLUES TO BEE DEATHS
Researchers at the university of illinois have a new explenation for the mysterious colony collapse disorder that wiped out 1/3 if U.S. honeybee hives; A collection of viruses(rather than a single bug) is attacking bees' ribosomal RNA. The research is a first step towards salvadging the colinies, wich pollinate $15 billion in U.s. crops a year

I never knew tomatoes were self pollinationg, but you may just find it interesting.....
~-Mark-~

 

[blossom hen]

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You may have given them too much fertilizer, especially nitrogen, that'll promote green, leafy growth and few flowers.

Reinbeau, thank you. Think you just gave the reason my tomatoes didn't produce this year. The bed I planted in was composted with the shavings from the chicken house and the rabbit droppings from two years ago. Didn't add any soil or anything as it was great looking, dark soil. (And didn't test the soil.

) Like Sillystunt, I have huge plants, but no flowers and no fruit. So, maybe by year after next, when I'll be ready to plant tomatoes in that bed again, I'll have tomatoes on plants.