I just keep the underneath trimmed up so it can get some good airflow. Other than that, I let the indeterminates take off. They can get insane.

hey Derek, post that picture of you standing behind the Porters...was that last year???...my Porters look like that this year and they are really producing...fresh salsa coming up for dinner

This was 2017. They were just as big last year.

don'tcha miss'm this year...???...i can't go without my Porters...being non-acidic, my wife loves the fresh salsa and hot sauce...

I do miss the Porters. It's a great tomato. I'm really enjoying my Roma's this year. Been great producers. Also a cherry mixed in. Saturday pick in the front and last night in the back.

Nice haul !

i've had 2 crop failures...raised bed gardening is so different than gardening in the ground with lots of room...less means more in raised beds...i planted to many onions and corn per linear foot and width...so my next crop of onions will be one row, NOT multiple rows...corn will be one plant per linear foot, 2 rows wide in the 4 ft wide bed...any other failures i might incur from your personal failures in raised bed gardening would be appreciated by us all

I have been using the sq ft method in my raised beds. I have found that peppers and eggplants can be planted 2 per sq ft, and tomatoes need at least a 1x2 ft space with staggered plantings to avoid blight and mold issues. While we do enjoy eating squash, the space they take up and the squash bug issues make me not want to grow it again. For next years tomatoes I am going to grow determinate paste/salsa types and inter determinate slicers.

Squash bugs are a PITA. Pyganic 1.4 works great for killing them. I keep a quart spray bottle of it mixed up and spot spray them. Adult bugs can be more resistant to insecticides so I try to manually kill the adult squash bugs as I see them.

For paste/salsa determinate tomatoes. I'm growing Viva Italia this year. I highly recommend them.

thats beautiful

I agree...that's flipping cool!

farmers almanac tomato problems / suggestions

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/common-tomato-plant-problems-28544

Good link on the tomato problems. The one issue it's doesn't mention is spider mites. Infected plants will look like they have a fungal disease. Cut a few leaves off and thump them on a white piece of paper. Use a magnifying glass. If stuff starts moving around on the white paper, you have spider mites.