Your 2026 Garden

[dirkandlorie]

The roots and flowers are what you make the tea from The Roots have stronger medicinal properties but the flowers tend to taste better so most people do a mix

The leaves also work medicinally. I add them to my elderberry syrup every year.

 

[FernwoodHollow]

This was about a week ago. The cherry tomato has little green tomatoes on it and it's doing great! The other three I'm about to toss. They're in a cage due to Stella the cat.
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When I repotted to the ice cream buckets, I buried their stems as much as I could so it looked worse.

Unless you don't want them anymore those are still healthy plants I wouldn't throw them out yet the yellow and the leaf curl could either be over or underwatering I know that's not much help to say either you'll know by how often you water. The reason it could be either is because the curl is usually underwater snd the yellow is usually over water or nitrogen deficiency but if its new tomato specific potting soil it would have what they need. But those are at a point where they would totally bounce back still.

They are pretty leggy which means they were growing tall for more light so you were probably correct that they needed more initially you can either pinch them off to try to get them to get a little bit bushier and grow more side shoots at the lower nodes or bury them deeper.

 

[FernwoodHollow]

The leaves also work medicinally. I add them to my elderberry syrup every year.

Correct I was just saying that the roots have stronger medicinal properties

Edit: oh sorry you said leaves and my brain read flowers but also yes leaves and stems too!

 

[dirkandlorie]

Correct I was just saying that the roots have stronger medicinal properties

Edit: oh sorry you said leaves and my brain read flowers but also yes leaves and stems too!

I was sure that you knew that, lol. I was worried the person asking about it might not.

 

[Debbie292d]

I let mine self seed at their own free will for like 7 years for them to get to this point so if you tend to them even mildly they likely won't grow out of control LOL

It's been a few years and they haven't spread at all. That's why I thought of it as strange.

 

[Debbie292d]

Unless you don't want them anymore those are still healthy plants I wouldn't throw them out yet the yellow and the leaf curl could either be over or underwatering I know that's not much help to say either you'll know by how often you water. The reason it could be either is because the curl is usually underwater snd the yellow is usually over water or nitrogen deficiency but if its new tomato specific potting soil it would have what they need. But those are at a point where they would totally bounce back still.

They are pretty leggy which means they were growing tall for more light so you were probably correct that they needed more initially you can either pinch them off to try to get them to get a little bit bushier and grow more side shoots at the lower nodes or bury them deeper.

I was so focused on the lighting that I didn't even think about the water being an issue. They'd be underwatered if anything. I just noticed the dirt on the cherry tomato was dry, the other three not, but I watered them all anyway. I only water them about once a week.

The potting soil was fresh Miracle Grow potting soil.

I better put the light back down too then. It's up about two feet. It was about 1 foot when they started going downhill, so I looked it up, and it said 18" for their age. I went to 18", and that wasn't helping, so I went up to 2'.

Why though is the cherry tomato doing so well? I wish that's all I'd planted lol.

 

[FernwoodHollow]

I was so focused on the lighting that I didn't even think about the water being an issue. They'd be underwatered if anything. I just noticed the dirt on the cherry tomato was dry, the other three not, but I watered them all anyway. I only water them about once a week.

The potting soil was fresh Miracle Grow potting soil.

I better put the light back down too then. It's up about two feet. It was about 1 foot when they started going downhill, so I looked it up, and it said 18" for their age. I went to 18", and that wasn't helping, so I went up to 2'.

Why though is the cherry tomato doing so well? I wish that's all I'd planted lol.

Sometimes it's hard to know some seedlings just get better starts than others. Even if all of them got the exact same conditions that and I do find cherry tomatoes a little bit easier than the big beefy tomato plants.

 

[FernwoodHollow]

It's been a few years and they haven't spread at all. That's why I thought of it as strange.

Maybe you have lots of birds and wildlife eating all your seeds so they're basically deadheading it for you.