Garden Update

To all you tomato growers out there. I read in the paper that there is a Tomato Mania out there. 90 per cent of gardeners are growing tomatoes. Well I am too, and I have 15 plants that are doing pretty well. They started out doing great, but about several weeks later I noticed we were getting long leaves and branches. That would indicate a possible high nitrogen content and low phosphate. I located some tomato sticks that had a high phosphorus content, and I used them. Now I have tall plants with plenty of blossoms quite a few tomatoes. But now the plants are started to wilt, and I thought it could be acid soil or lack of water. So we bought a pH tester,and it showed acidic soil. Back to the store to get a lime product to sweeten the soil. The next day the plants were still wilted, so now they need water. Now yesterday I spent most of the afternoon watering the plants. We have an elevated planting area,and we are having just light showers which did not penetrate deep enough. There is not much else to do except to pick tomatoes, I hope.