Question
I wish I could send you pictures of my tomato plants, I know I have a problem but most tomato plant sites are confusing. I live in South Florida, on the east coast, and I am only a recent gardener.

I currently have a small herb and vegetable garden. The plot was carved out of the porch in on corner near the house that drains very well, it's a 6'x2' plot approx. I also have two pineapples in pots who seem to be doing well in the same area. I have dill, chives, sweet basil, oregano, cilanto, curley parsley, flat leaf parsley, rapidly taking over strawberry plants, bell peppers, and a few tomatoes. I have two beefmaster plants, a bush champion, and a roma. The one beefmaster is almost 6ft tall, and has at least 6 tomatoes about a quarter size a piece on it. The bush is about 5ft tall, no buds or maters but seems to be strong. The roma is small with few branches (it was trampled by a kitten, I think she may have nicked a few things) but it gives me a single delicious tomato about every 3 weeks or so. I have another beefmaster in the corner that is only about 1ft tall. I got them all at about 5 inches tall, back in March. I originally though that the smaller beefmaster was just growing slower because being in the corner, it gets less sun than the other plants. But now the leaves are yellow at the edges, and are starting to curl either up or down. The blossoms all turn brown and fall off. I have one tiny tomato the size of a nickel but it's been that size for a week.

Now I see that the leaves of the bush have small gray circles on them, kind of look like mold but they don't rub off. They are very light and not dotting the entire leaf, and not every leaf on the plant.

Are both problems related? What can I do for the bush? can the sickly beefmaster be saved?

Thanks for any advice.  

Answer
Dear Aimee,
You have a lot of plants in a pretty small place.  Sounds like you have quite the green thumb.  I really think your small plant has two problems.  One is overcrowding and the second is a lack of nutrients.  I suggest that you move the plant to a pot, just in case there is any fungus, you don't want it to spread, and see what it does there.  We have found through the years, that we get a greater yield of tomatoes when the plants have more space.  One year, we crowded our plants and the tomatoes were smaller and the plants "shaded" each other.  We plant our tomatoes in our herb garden as well, and have many of the same things you mentioned, but all those things need space to keep from depleting the soil.  Try adding some fish emulsion or something from time to time.
Kind Regards,
Kindred
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