Advice on growing tomatoes or jalapenos

i would say jalapenos are better for pots. theyre also extremely easy to grow. they can pretty much handle any amount of sun you can throw at them. i have quite a few in the ground and a few in pots. one thing i like about pots is that you can move them around to get sun.

tomato plants can get large and i would definitely put them in the ground with some support(trellis)

Cherry tomatoes do very well in porch pots. One plant makes a lot of tomatoes.

They are fabulous wrapped in bacon and grilled.

Depends on what you want to eat more!

This is true about the sago palm.


Either on or both do well in pots. I have a creole tomato in a pot and I give them as gifts as well. Plant one of each.

I have much better luck growing peppers in pots. Jalapenos do really well.

i grow a shitton of tomatoes. they'll grow regardless. ground, pots, raised beds, close together, apart, it don't matter. just make sure they get at least 8 hrs of sun...and water.

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I have all my tomatoes in pots this year. I have watched my neighbor grow them in pots very successfully. Get a "determinant" variety like Early Girl or Champion. Determinant means it stays fairly small. Whats nice is in the heat of the summer I can move the pots to get afternoon shade. In the winter, I can take them inside during freezes. My neighbor had tomatoes coming in all last winter.

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"Determinate" does not just mean the plant is compact; it means the plant will grow to a certain point, begin to flower and set fruit, then keel over. It will not continue to grow and produce fruit beyond a certain point. IOW, determinate plants won't keep going and going.

Indeterminate will spread and spread, which requires lots of room. On the other hand, it will produce for a much longer period of time, and you can get a "second wind" of late summer/early fall tomatoes out of an indeterminate plant.

It's important to understand that most tomato varieties won't set fruit when evening lows remain above 70 degrees. Depending on where you live in LA, this might be as early as late May (though probably not THIS year). So getting them into the ground early is important, unless you're planting heat-tolerant varieties.

Also, why would you ever want to put a tomato plant into the shade? They want full sun. They need full sun. You're reducing the plant's productivity by moving it into any shade. If it is wilting in full sun, then the soil is too dry and the pot is too small for the plant in question. Get a bigger pot and water more diligently, and leave it in the sun.

Have you planted brandywine before? I've tried it on multiple occasions, and it isn't very productive in my microclime (south of NOLA, almost in the swamp). I don't know if it's the fairly heavy clay soil or what, but I got around two-three tomatoes off of those plants. Waste of space, even if the tomato is tasty. Mr Stripey and Cherokee Purple are two more highly touted heirlooms that were complete duds in my garden.

I've lost almost all my better boys to late blight this year, thanks to the cool and rain. The FLA 91s are looking like champs, and the ol' reliable celebrities have heavy fruit set.

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i would say jalapenos are better for pots. theyre also extremely easy to grow. they can pretty much handle any amount of sun you can throw at them. i have quite a few in the ground and a few in pots. one thing i like about pots is that you can move them around to get sun.

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Mine wilted in the Houston sun last summer. Lots and lots of water to keep them fed. I actually don't think I gave them enough shade. Some sort of fungus came in and murdered them.

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Lots and lots of water to keep them fed. I actually don't think I gave them enough shade. Some sort of fungus came in and murdered them

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you might have been overwatering them. excess moisture is a good producer of fungus

Once your tomato plants flower, cut off all of the limbs below the limb that has flowered. Limbs below the first flower will not produce anything and suck energy away from the good limbs.