Beginner Gardening: Broccoli, 1 by Gymgirl

Gymgirl wrote:
Behillman,
I believe that black plastic is the ground cover placed to keep weeds and other stuff from growing up around the plants.

Country,
I can only wish for the day I get ONE tomato plant covered with tomatoes like I see in your pic. For some reason, my vines just will NOT produce more than 3-5 tomatoes, if that many....Only the very first two seasons I grew them did I get more than a few on each vine. Huge indeterminates, too. But not again since...

Maybe I just need to start all over, huh?

BTW, I grow in patented Earthboxes and in homemade eBuckets...I tried that bare naked lady pruning method this season and ended up with just a few china ball size maters on most of the plants, and a whole congregation of Leaf-Footed Stinkbugs...

This is before I pruned the plants.