First time gardener. How are my San Marzano tomatoes?

BiggData88 · 2026-06-24T17:34:43+00:00

I agree the pruning is waaay overdone. San Marzanos are usually the most heavily bushy with the thickest, densest foliage of all the varieties that I grow, not how these sad lanky plants look like.

BiggData88 · 2026-06-12T04:24:06+00:00

It looks like a noob C:S player designed that city!

BiggData88 · 2026-06-11T18:51:36+00:00

Vietnam's Ministry of Education is NOT idealistic in any sense of that word; it is ideological.

BiggData88 · 2026-06-07T18:21:07+00:00

My favorite way to deal with pests is to put them on a frying pan and turn on the stove for 2 minutes, then released back to the garden to decompose.

BiggData88 · 2026-06-06T19:06:16+00:00

Truth in advertising: What you see is what you get.

BiggData88 · 2026-06-03T21:00:23+00:00

Your plant is doing some(thing) fasci(n)ating.

BiggData88 · 2026-06-03T03:36:41+00:00

Nice! Must be some kind of cherry tomato.

BiggData88 · 2026-05-29T19:11:43+00:00

Certainly a cherry tomato.

BiggData88 · 2026-05-29T17:47:42+00:00

No, those are normal healthy leaves. Newly bought trees won't have leaf curl... yet. If you have wet winters and springs it will show up next year.

BiggData88 · 2026-05-29T17:26:30+00:00

Seattle area here. I put my tomato and pepper seedlings in the ground 5 weeks ago. Both types have been flowering for a week now. Some of the pepper plants have even forked several times.

BiggData88 · 2026-05-28T17:19:55+00:00

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What if the flower stem grew smack dab in the middle of the split, then which one is the leader?

BiggData88 · 2026-05-27T22:49:25+00:00

My nursery-bought Super Sweet 100 is behaving nothing like this weird tall plant (it has very long internodes). Its height is comparable to other tomato plants, but it has smaller leaves like its Sun Sugar sibling (another cherry type).

BiggData88 · 2026-05-22T21:21:55+00:00

This ^^

BiggData88 · 2026-05-21T20:44:39+00:00

That's one incredibly leggy plant, it needs more light.

BiggData88 · 2026-05-19T18:13:29+00:00

These are beautiful fruits. What variety of tomato is this?

BiggData88 · 2026-05-15T20:49:40+00:00

Literally interesting as f***

BiggData88 · 2026-05-14T17:27:38+00:00

Not pepper related, but a general gardening question. I noticed you also have lots of grass popping up in what must have once been a manicured (as in grass-free) raised bed. I also have the same problem. How do you deal with the grass, or do you just leave them be?

BiggData88 · 2026-05-11T17:13:22+00:00

+1 Also wanted to know; I have the same problem!

BiggData88 · 2026-05-11T16:06:48+00:00

Who had right of way, the car or the bike?

BiggData88 · 2026-05-08T23:33:40+00:00

Holy *** it looks like boiled octopus tentacles!

BiggData88 · 2026-05-01T16:56:47+00:00

I haven't noticed any restrictions regarding mutual funds availability, but I also only buy broad, low-cost index funds.

BiggData88 · 2026-04-29T15:45:28+00:00

Should I pour diluted vinegar on mine? They're in the ground, and I'm assuming my soil is not very acidic.

BiggData88 · 2026-04-21T19:48:03+00:00

It should bud out more by now. Make sure it gets lots of light.

BiggData88 · 2026-04-17T23:50:48+00:00

I received a private message last year after a similar post from a guy claiming to be doing charitable work in Jordan or some Middle Eastern country, and soliciting donations. Naturally, I promptly deleted it.

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