Why dont my tomato plants yield any tomatoes, just alot of green leave

JAGS
by JAGS
  12 answers
  • Ter24865421 Ter24865421 on Aug 19, 2017

    I was told once that I was over feeding my tomato plants with a fertilizer. The plants were tall and lush but no tomato's. Fertilize only after the tomatoes set on.

  • Dorothy Steward Cranfill Dorothy Steward Cranfill on Aug 19, 2017

    Do they bloom?

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    • Vicki Bushert Vicki Bushert on Aug 19, 2017

      You can also take a small paint brush and go flower to flower pollinating them yourself if bees are not around.

  • Eddy Radar Eddy Radar on Aug 19, 2017

    Too much nitrogen (that grows leaves!) You need 0-10-10to promote blooms!


  • Joanie Joanie on Aug 19, 2017

    Every year, put them in another area of your garden. They need the nutrients from a new area.......Simple solution! If plant is growin' well and needs her fruit, give her new soil and you WILL receive the fruit of the vine!!

    • Thelma Thelma on Aug 20, 2017

      I disagree with Theduke1234, I have raised tons of tomatoes in the same tomato patch for the last 46 years - we bought our small farm & home in 1971. Tomatoes like the same ground, simply put a large handful of crushed egg shells and then 1 tsp of Epsom Salt in the hole before planting the tomato seedling in it. Plant the plants deep after removing all but the top 2 sets of leaves; the deeper, the better. Roots will grow along the entire buried stems of the plants. I also made sure I planted asparagus next to the tomato patch, these two plants are very beneficial to each other. I have more tomatoes than we can eat fresh, process into juice, and can whole from only 6 plants every year. Do not sprinkle the plants, use soaker hoses buried about 6" deep right beside the plants, a sprinkler will knock off the blooms before they have a chance to set the fruit. Oh yes, I keep Borage (flower) planted in my garden, it really attracts the pollinators.

  • Kathy Juanita Kathy Juanita on Aug 19, 2017

    I used tomatoe feed from miracle grow..

  • Karen Karen on Aug 19, 2017

    Mother nature is responsible - that link by Janet is good

  • Ar G Ar G on Aug 20, 2017

    Are you cutting the "suckers" off? My Dad taught us how important that is to prevent a big plant with lots of green and not much fruit. All the plants energy is going into growing the greenery. To remove the suckers, as he called them, you simply break off any new shoots that grow between the main stem and a main branch. You will see them start to grow right in the crook of the joint between the main stem and the branch. Just break them off, so the plant won't get so bushy.

  • Laurie Laurie on Aug 20, 2017

    If this is posted in August, it's probably too hot for the plants to set fruit, unless you have heat-tolerant varieties. Are they blooming? If they bloom but don't set, that's likely to be the issue. Also, if you have fed them with a high-nitrogen fertilizer, this will happen. Too much N and all you get is a jungle of green.

  • Ckd27274390 Ckd27274390 on Aug 20, 2017

    Are you planting them in the same place year after year? Tomatos need to be rotated with other produce same as a farmer with his crops. They don't produce after awhile.



  • Pam Ives Pam Ives on Aug 20, 2017

    I'm also having that issue this year. I think the reason is that I accidentally purchased all indeterminate varieties. They focus on growing tall, rather than producing flowers/fruit. Determinate varieties get bushy, rather than tall, and produce more fruit.

  • Betsy Coss Betsy Coss on Aug 21, 2017

    are your plants getting enough sun? My father said that was why mine did not produce tomatoes. too shady in my back yard!