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Nicholls Georgia

I would like to know the difference in how we prepare our soil for tomatoes. I know some use the same soil prep as we do for our pumpkins, but would it would help to see what the difference is in soils that grow big tomatoes. As this might help to get even bigger ones.

1/9/2010 4:47:51 PM

ExtremeVegetables.com

My biggest tomatoes were all grown in the pumpkin patch.

1/9/2010 6:16:15 PM

Wv

same soil, i like to add ground egg shell. GLEN

1/9/2010 10:53:01 PM

Wv

ODD THING and i may be wrong but i beleave the world record holder was found in the weeds with no care at all, im not saying do that but makes me kinda mad LOL. GOD BLESS ,GLEN

1/9/2010 10:56:12 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

That plant had had 15 Feb to end of May total pampering, THEN got blown over and left. So it wasn't exactly just luck....

1/9/2010 11:30:59 PM

Baltimore

the soil mix used to grow would record can be found in the Oklahoman newspaper.

1/10/2010 9:09:30 AM

Pataskala,OH

Whoever said they found WR tomato in weeds is lying. If you do not water tomatoes that grow fast evenly like every day they split open. I have seen it happen when you do not water a brandywine tomato for a few days and then you get a thunderstorm.

1/10/2010 10:00:14 AM

Sacramento, Ca

This will be my first year growing giant tomatoes. I have put down manure, compost, veggy scraps, coffee grounds, carrot and beet tops, pears, apples, egg shells and the remnants of last years tomato and pepper plants. About once a week I turn the dirt in this spot and just keep adding the coffee grounds and table scraps. My wife is actually going to do the growing. She thinks she will be growing the Rutgers tomato. One of them will be Rutgers, the others will be giants. Shhhhhhhh, don't tell anyone!

1/10/2010 11:01:33 AM

Wv

But he didnt know it was in the weeds, he found it he took good care of the plant when staked but everything i read leads to him finding it in the weeds, NIC you better read before calling out layer! HOW about it MARV. you know the story? treetop

1/10/2010 1:32:50 PM

ExtremeVegetables.com

It's true.
Mr. Graham was experimenting with plant size figuring that the larger the plant the larger tomato it could produce. He babied the plant until it was 12 to 14 feet tall. When a strong wind blew the plant over into the Cantaloupe garden he wrote it off as a loss. One day while visiting his cantaloupes found a Big Surprise on that plant.

Tht plant also went on to break the world record for tallest tomato plant at 53 feet 6 inches.

BTW, Nic. Brandywines in my experience are prone to cracking but I haven't had that problem with Big Zac or Delicious.

1/10/2010 2:05:34 PM

On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

Duane is correct. The tomato was found in the cantaloupe patch after the plant blew over.

1/10/2010 3:41:41 PM

Cincinnati,OH

Where do i get a 53' tomato stake ? lol

1/11/2010 3:06:14 PM