Letter Re: Maximizing and Extending Your Tomato Harvest

Good Morning Mr. Rawles,
This is not necessarily directed toward the propagation and extending of tomato harvests, but geared more toward making your tomatoes better. I have found that amending the soil (pouring a quarter to a half a cup in the hole before planting) of powdered milk has a profound effect on the growth of tomatoes.

The tomatoes will grow a little shorter, significantly more stout, and have a darker green color. They even produced about the same number of flowers and tomatoes. I am sad to say that I could not do a taste test between the fruit of the two groups (non milk and milk) because a hailstorm came by and flattened the thinner non-milk tomatoes.

Better to have a hardy crop than broken stems! – Jim S.