I don’t know about anyone else, but our tomatoes have been struggling. I’m not sure why. Did they get too much spring rain? Is that even possible?

I mean – just look at our garden this time last year! They were looking less like tomatoes than Triffids.

And 2010? Well, we harvested for the first time today.

This is what we got:

tomatoes 2010

Not great, eh?

And our Romas aren’t looking healthy:

sad Romas

Can anyone help me with diagnosing what that brown bruise-like marks are? I’m not sure what to do. Perhaps it’s the same thing that was affecting one of the plants last year (see above post)?

At least there are still at least two more months to turn the situation around. It won’t feel like summer until I have too many tomatoes to know what to do with!

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Karen Andrews is the creator of this website, one of the most established and well-respected parenting blogs in the country. She is also an author, award-winning writer, poet, editor and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. Her latest book is Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity