Flower Growing Soil

My tomato plants are not growing well, could the soil be too “rich” for them?

My flower beds are a vision of colors and foliage, but I have no luck with tomatoes. They produce a few flowers, set fruit, then sit there not growing or making new flowers or buds and the tomatoes that form stay small. Could the soil be too rich in organic matter or too water retentive?

Just a thought…but do you happen to have any black walnut trees nearby? Tomato plants (and other veggies) will not do well in the soil that is shared with the root system of a black walnut tree due to the toxic juglone emitted into the soil. We have that problem so we have to grow our tomato plants in big pots on our deck. Although you may have grown tomatoes in your vegetable garden for years with no problem, the tree has grown over time, and the spread of its root system has increased as well. While tomatoes are probably the best-known victims of “walnut wilt”, juglone is injurious to asparagus, azaleas, blueberries, mountain laurel, potentilla, rhododendron, and many other plants when they are grown within the root zone of these trees.

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