Originally Posted by pojeda
I live in Central Texas and it gets very hot and humid in the summer. I have tried to grow just tomatoes for the last 3 years, (and want to try again) and each year I will get some growth, and then they die! I really don't know what I am doing wrong not to get tomatoes! Help????
Tomatoes are heavy feeders, too, so add compost when planting and then fertilize regularly. Or just keep dumping more compost at the base of the plant. They will grow extra roots off the buried portion of the stem and be very happy about it!
If you have had spots, those are likely to be blights (which are fungal diseases). And you can pick those up if you bought nursery-grown seedlings. We had that problem two years ago here, it wiped out even the commercial crops and our county extension traced it to infected seedlings sold by an big-box store that they would not name.
You will be completely safe if you start your own seeds in and grow them in (very large) pots. Unless your neighbors have infected plants. Because this disease is both soil-borne and windborne.