Kia ora, a few months ago I got this plant called a Potato Tom – it was planted in a large put with the very best potting mix, some tomato food and lots of good wishes.
Now it looks like something that has been neglected for every day of its life, the leaves of the top are just about to turn like the leaves on the potato at the bottom – you know how potato leaves go all dry when the potatoes are ready to be dug up? The leaves are still free but a dry green, nothing like the Moneymakers I’ve got in the garden which have produced tomatoes that are red, firm, delicious.
I’m wondering whether its something I’ve done – or not done. It get watered every night if it hasn’t rained, I’m still picking strawberries from the pots around it and the leaves of those plants are green and vigorous looking. You can see them in the pot at the bottom of the photo.
It has 80 tomatoes on it, maybe more, but definitely 80, but they are funny looking little knobs, not like cherry tomatoes but as though they haven’t grown as they were supposed to.
Has anyone else out there grown one of these plants? And if so, how’s your one doing? Renée
