Ninni:
These are beautiful tomatoes!
I think the reason the stalks are spindly might be because they are in pots instead of in the ground?

It is just a guess though, I am not a tomatoe expert!

Happy Gardening

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For years and too many years of growing plants in the house, I like to work a plant up in pot size. It seems to retain a more compact nature that way. I'm sure there's a reason.

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I pulled "Comes a Time" earlier today and have Arlo Guthrie in right now.

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Currently listening to: Vince Guaraldi Trio -- A Charlie Brown Christmas. Adult and contemporary but evocative of youth and innocence, a must own CD.

Thanks Triss, I sure hope so!!!!!! I can't wait to have my Tomato and miracle whip sandwich!!!

Ninni

yOu know, I never had fried green tomatoes!! I always wanted to try them....

Ninni

Big indeterminate tomato plants, ones that keep producing all season long need about 1 cu. ft. of soil to produce like they would if grown in the ground. The plant on the right might be a determinate plant which grows smaller and produces all at once or perhaps it has more of a dwarf-type growth habit. Without knowing the varieties, it's hard to say.

The only tomatoes I have growing in pots the size of yours are dwarfs, ones that won't get higher than 3' at most. I have 11 others in 1 cu. ft. containers and most are over 7' tall. I've compared yield from those to what I'm getting in the raised bed and they're comparable. My 1 cu. ft. container plants have suffered more from various foliage diseases, though. That might be due to uneven watering and more exposure to high winds during thunderstorms. The soil used was new pro-mix, so there weren't pre-existing diseases like can happen in garden soil.

ninniwinky, depending on where you are in NY, if you're getting a lot of heat/humidity, you may want to put those containers in a saucer and mulch with straw or grass clippings for increased water retention. Just a thought.

Cheers and congrats on your tomatoes ;o)

Julianna

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I picked my first two tomato's today!!!! Remember, the green ones everyone was telling me to make fried green tomato's with?????? Well now they are a beautiful red! YIPPEE!! This is my first year of growing ANYTHING, EVER!!!!!!

Ninni