Here are some tips to ensure your tomato plants will produce through the summer heat

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Here are some tips to ensure your tomato plants will produce through the summer heat
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Needless to say, they really don’t like temperatures over 100 F.

Since the plants stop growing at high temperatures, they may not need as much water as during their growth phase. Of course, you want to make sure that they don’t dry out but be careful not to overwater.

We’ve found that our tomatoes are especially susceptible to spider mites and white fly during the hottest part of the summer. Removing the dead, lower branches and cleaning up leaf litter under the plants helps substantially. I noticed that the soil in the pot containing the yellow plant looks quite wet. Since you didn’t mention the presence of any insects, my first guess is that the problem pot is waterlogged. Most pots have drainage holes that are too small or no drainage holes at all. Sometimes the drainage hole becomes clogged, and water will accumulate until the plant drowns. This doesn’t take very long, and once a plant has root rot it is usually not salvageable.

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