Tomato Dirt Newsletter
Volume 15, Number 10

Dear Tomato Dirt reader,

Welcome back to Tomato Dirt! A couple times a month, we’ll send you this newsletter packed with tips about growing tomatoes and using them.

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FEATURE: How To Get More Flowers (and Fruit) On Your Tomato Plants

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More flowers, more fruit.

Which is why every gardener wants to know how to increase flowering in tomatoes.

Here’s the dirt: tomatoes produce flowers when they have the sun, nutrients, water, and conditions they need to thrive.

Without those elements, they’re stressed.

Stressed tomato plants simply try to survive.

But if you give them an ideal environment, they have the energy to produce lots of flowers and fruit.

Tomatoes typically begin flowering about 1 month after they are transplanted in the ground.

Small yellow flowers first develop on plants that are Keep reading …

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