i have a hanging tomato plant, it was giving me good tomatos. but then they started to grow more new tomatos and i brought it in my house cause it was starting to get cold. I was looking at them up close and i saw that some of the tomatos looked like they had light black patches on them, and 2 of them had looked like it grown kinda like portion of the tomato wasnt finished developing like it wasnt growing closed. like it was growing half close and the other half open it didn't have rot on it. It just looked incompleat some how, it was green as ever it was still growing and the other one looked like it had 2 tomattoes growing together and the bottem was open like it wasnt done in its shape. I had showed my husbend the tomattoes, he said that for me not to eat them the tomattoes was green and big and very pretty looking like they were healthy and hard not mushy. but you could see on the branch it had a black quater size spot on the stem, so he told me to get rid of the hole thing cause the dirt may be bad with the sickness of what the tomattoes have. It broke my heart to do so, cause this was my first time growing veg. but there was some tomattoes that did not have that light black patch on it, its green and im trying to see if they will turn red. can i eat the ones that doesnt have the light black patch on them.. please let me know if you could email me at wolfevie@yahoo.com thankyou for anyones help..

I keep hearing about blight? what does it look like? I have beautiful tomotoes and then the top of the tomatoe is yellow and will not turn red. The rest of the tomaote is beautiful and ripe but the top is still yellow and hard.

I had skimmed an article somewhere regarding planting tomato seeds directing in the garden in the fall. And when they come up in the spring you can transplant, the theory sounded like it was based on the voluntary tomatoes growning all over the garden from the previos years spoils. Alas, I can't find the article to get all the particulars a on this process. It always seems that my voluntary plants are much stonger and healthier than my store bought ones. Of course I am "blessed" with an abunbant supply of cherry tomatoes when I'd like to have Roma or Big Boy. Would you have any insight of this proceedure. Thanks Jeanne Will Hammond Wisconsin....

I live in Miami. Very hot temperatures, in the 90's. My German Queen tomatoes have grown up to six feet and look very well, but no fruit. Is it the temperature? I planted them three months ago. Too soon to grow fruit?

Can you explain what causes very hard, yellow cores in red tomatoes?

I was in my garden on Monday the 20th tying up the tomatoes and they were fine. By Wednesday the entire crop was dead...browned out with white fungus all over them. I had 15 tomato plants and it's breaking my heart to know I will not have one of my own organically grown tomatoes this summer.

1. My Roma tomatoes are valiantly trying to grow several tomatoes, but out of 4 one had been eaten or otherwise producing a black something on the bottom.

2. The other, a huge plant bought as a small plant from the grocery store and potted into a large pot, got many blossoms but no tomatoes. It is a Super something.

I read an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer last week. The article said if your tomato plant has this, pull it out but put it in a plastic bag and lay it in the sun until you can see it is completely dead. Then put it in the trash. I have cut the article out of paper and shared it with some friends. This is the same blight that hit Ireland in the potato famine in 1842. If you wish for more info. Go to http://extension,psu.edu/ or http://njaes/:rutgers.edu/