06/13/2026
Garden Myth or Garden Fact? 🌱
While tomatoes love sunshine, during the hottest parts of summer some varieties can actually benefit from a little afternoon shade. In fact, extreme heat can cause your tomato plant may produce fewer tomatoes even though it looks healthy.
One of the biggest mistakes new gardeners make is watering too little during hot weather. A thirsty tomato plant can quickly become stressed, leading to curling leaves, blossom drop, and reduced harvests.
🍅 The Secret to Better Tomatoes Isn't Fertilizer...
It's consistency.
Every year gardeners ask us what fertilizer grows the biggest tomatoes. The answer surprises a lot of people:
We use Gaia green all purpose and bloom organic fertilizer along with fish emulsion.
But a tomato plant that gets consistent watering will often outperform a heavily fertilized plant that dries out between waterings.
When soil repeatedly goes from soaking wet to bone dry, tomato plants become stressed. This can lead to:
🍅 Cracked fruit
🍅 Blossom end rot
🍅 Curled leaves
🍅 Reduced harvests
One of the best things you can do is add a layer of mulch around your tomatoes. Straw, shredded leaves, or untreated grass clippings help keep soil moisture more consistent and reduce watering needs.
Fun Fact:
A mature tomato plant can move several litres of water through its leaves on a hot summer day. That's a lot of work for one plant! 🌱
What's your biggest tomato-growing challenge?
👇 Let us know below.
Now for the important question...
👇 What's the strangest thing you've ever grown in your garden?
We'll go first: We're currently growing varieties that most people have never even heard of!
🌿 Thyme to Bloom
A local backyard & pop-up nursery in Moncton, NB
Growing vegetable, flower & herb starts with care.
