I've got a few gardening questions, I'm hoping I can get some advice. 1. My snap pea plants typically last for about a month or two and I get a good yield, but then all of the sudden they start turning yellow and die off. I don't know if I end up watering them too much or too little. Two years ago I tried not watering them as much and they turned yellow and died. Last year I watered them more and they still died. I know it's not the soil as other plants that require similar sunlight and pH make it all season. Do they just not last that long?? 2. My tomato plants grow crazy tall, like 8+ feet. The yield is crazy good too. There's no question about it I need to start topping them once they start growing out of the tops of their cages. In the past I've tried to both stake and cage them at the same time and they still bent and toppled. I've topped them in the past but not until they get way out of hand. Do you top your tomoato plants? If so how do you decide when and where to cut?
As for you're peas that's completely normal. For you're tomatoes get some stronger cages by the sounds of it. They do make some real heavy duty ones. I do trim mine too once in a while. Depends on what strength of cage I'm using. Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk
I think I have a plan for the tomatoes this year...once they reach the top of the cage I am going to cut off the higher branches and force the plant to continue growing outward rather than upward. If I have to top them every few weeks as well I can, not a big deal there. I'm glad that I'm not doing anything wrong on the peas, I was completely lost and couldn't find specifically how long they are supposed to last. Thanks for the input!
peas are cool weather plants... once it hits 80 degrees they are going to stop producing and start turning yellow & dying
This will be my first year using cages for my tomatoes (really only my second year gardening), so topping is definitely something I will consider. Peas, when we planted them at home when I was younger, are an early seeded plant. They always went in much sooner than anything else for the reasons stated above. They love the cooler temps. Once you hit high temps and longer stretches of high temps, they always burn out. Same with lettuce (well, lettuce, for us, will continue to grow some in high heat, but the taste is different).
