Had to move my earthboxes..
 

It was pretty much a disaster! In order to move them, I had to separate the plants from each other and prune the hell out them to get them to fit in a truck with a 6 1/2' roof. Then we had to empty as much water as possible from the reservoirs. About half of the tomatoes fell off in the 20 mile trip. Finally, after getting them setup, in their new home, the tomato towers were not adequate to support the weight of 6 containers so the plants collapsed. Major damage and lots of cutting to fix. The last straw was the 50 year old water pump quit. My containers has no water for 4 days.

After all of this, the plants are producing no new growth and are looking very sickly. There's not much I can do to help them right now, either; far too many other moving issues to deal with. Lots of tomatoes getting ripe and I don't have the means to use them; no kitchen!

FYI - we moved into a 60 year old house and have gutted most everything. We have a working bathroom with a shower, a 75% finished living room and a 40% finished bedroom.

Life can present some real challenges. I hope things work out for you.

jon:roll:

It sounds like you have bigger fish to fry than growing tomatoes....:))

I'd post some pictures if I could find my camera.

I remember you mentioning a move in your other thread and wondering how you were going to pull that off! Just hand out tomatoes to all the new neighbors.
Working bathroom- you are all set! :twisted:

While my growing season appears that it will be very short this year, the tomatoes that had already set are getting very large and are ripening. On Tuesday, I picked about a dozen large tomatoes and a hundred cherries. But, I have no place to store them and no way to use them. So, I have been giving them away.

[QUOTE=Balr14;426542]While my growing season appears that it will be very short this year, the tomatoes that had already set are getting very large and are ripening. On Tuesday, I picked about a dozen large tomatoes and a hundred cherries. But, I have no place to store them and no way to use them. So, I have been giving them away.[/QUOTE]

I think I could eat 12 large tomatoes and 100 cherry tomatoes in about 2 days.:lol:

Worth

Here's an update:

Tomato season is over this year for me. The plants looked awful and died off early. The general circumstances just were not good. Despite all of the problems, I got a lot of tomatoes, especially larger ones. I have come to the conclusion I don't need that many tomatoes, so next year I'm only putting two plants per container. I'm going to have to come up with a new way to support them, too.

If your growing in Earthboxes, the recommendation is for two plants per box.

Beat me to it Linda. So +1 on that post.

[QUOTE=Balr14;426202]It was pretty much a disaster! In order to move them, I had to separate the plants from each other and prune the hell out them to get them to fit in a truck with a 6 1/2' roof. Then we had to empty as much water as possible from the reservoirs. About half of the tomatoes fell off in the 20 mile trip. Finally, after getting them setup, in their new home, the tomato towers were not adequate to support the weight of 6 containers so the plants collapsed. Major damage and lots of cutting to fix. The last straw was the 50 year old water pump quit. My containers has no water for 4 days.

After all of this, the plants are producing no new growth and are looking very sickly. There's not much I can do to help them right now, either; far too many other moving issues to deal with. Lots of tomatoes getting ripe and I don't have the means to use them; no kitchen!

FYI - we moved into a 60 year old house and have gutted most everything. We have a working bathroom with a shower, a 75% finished living room and a 40% finished bedroom.[/QUOTE]
I feel for you. We moved in July with a horse, two dogs, three cats, two moving vans with car trailers, the dually and horse trailer. Had the horse and hubby's motorcycle, all the cats in the trailer. Dogs rode in the truck's back seat.
It was a 5 day, 2,600 mile trip. Longest move or drive I've ever been on and I've moved a lot!
House had been empty for 3 years so everything decided to break within a week. Dishwasher, trash compactor, AC, microwave, hot water heater. Luckily, the seller paid for a lot of the repairs.