On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 17:12:28 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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>"Boron Elgar" > wrote in message
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>> I only buy tomato plants that are at a steep discount or bedraggled
>> towards the end of the tomato-plant buying seasons.
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>Do you resurrect these plants? How do you deal with them to encourage more
>fruit.. or do you save them for another year??
>I see bedraggled plants and think they are finished.


They have to have some life left in them or I do not try, and the
damage has to be from neglect, not disease. I think of it as "Plant
Rescue."

Tomatoes are pretty easy to save...just plant them deeper if they have
gotten leggy or the lowest leaves are missing or in bad shape.

Around here, grocery stores are good places to get such plants. I have
gotten rose bushes, pots of petunias, veggie sets, etc and done well
with them. Besides, at such cheap prices ranging from 50 cents for a
tomato or up to $5 for a rose bush, I am never out much money.

Boron