I just finished planting the tomato suckers I’ve had on our dining area table for almost two weeks now. They are looking pretty sad, but they MIGHT make it. We’ll see.
In the meantime, I noticed I had more suckers on the main plants, so I’ve decided I’ll snap off some each time I’m harvesting, and go ahead and plonk them into the tomato sucker planter and see what, if anything, happens.
The bringing them in and planting them in cups and nuturing them inside didn’t seem to be very useful, and ANY plants that make it – regardless of the technique – are essentially FREE tomato plants, so I’m excited to see what works.
I just researched horizontal breaks in tomato skins, since I have ‘lines’ all the way around the two tomatoes I harvested this morning. The article says concentric breaks in the skin happens mostly to fruit ripening after a heavy rain, caused by big differences in the amount of water the tomato plants have received. I’m hoping that since the rains have stopped and the planters are on our irrigation system, the coming tomatoes will be nicer looking.
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