Hi All,
I have a 20 gallon container with cage for growing my cherry tomatoes.
I usually plant Sweet 100's, but for the last two years, the greenhouses have had failures on sweet
100's so I plant what every cherry tomato I can find.This year I planted two red cherry and one black cherry.
I did not water one day. I noticed the next day a lot of dead leaves at the bottom of the growth. When I cleaned out all the dead stuff, I found that the black cherry had killed both of the red cherries.
Hmmmm. The red cherry did not taste all that good and the black completely took over the pot. And the blacks taste a lot better. Plus the black is prolific, so I am getting a lot of tomatoes.
Now I know that certain desert plant will emit herbicides to kill of their neighbors so they can have better access to ground water. Have you guys ever heard of tomatoes killing off their too close rivals?
I wonder if all three were blacks if this would have happened.
Also, cheaper if I only have to buy one plant.
-T