I don't know about previous years, but this has been an odd year for gardening in many parts of the country, from what I have heard. I have yet to get any ripe tomatoes from my plants this year - there just have not been enough hot days. Maybe it's just been your luck of the draw with the weather. Are the folks nearby you having the same problems?

Have your last two summers been cool ones? Because our summer has been cool here, and although I have some ripe tomatoes, by this time there should be a lot more. My tomatoes are huge; they are just not ripe. And I started mine from seeds back in January or February, I think.

At any rate, I don't think it's a soil thing. I think ripening is dependent on temp.

Last Summer was hot and this summer has been warm in the 80's which is not to bad. I call 90's HOT.

Everyone I talk to has been getting tomatoes and they are getting allot of them. This is why I think there is something wrong with my soil. There has to be something totaly wrong some where.

You may be planting them too soon. I'm in zone 5 and Lake Erie keeps our area very cold during early spring (but warmer than counties south of us during autumn). I don't put tomatoes into the ground until late May. Although everyone wants to get their garden going ASAP, plant them later when night time temps are AT LEAST in the mid-50s. Temps in the 40s when transplanted will stunt the performance of your tomato and pepper plants all season.

Due to weather, I planted during the first week of June this year. I had ripe tomatoes from different varieties around mid-July, even earlier from a volunteer cherry tomato plant! When I first started growing tomatoes, I planted in early May. It was chilly, although we didn't get a frost after I planted. My tomatoes never did well regardless of how hot the summer was.

Depending on how much space I have in the sunroom, I start tomato seeds in late February. Some people say you can't transplant large tomato plants, but I've really pressed the envelope and put large plants that were four plus months old into the ground and they had no trouble adjusting. I try to transplant large plants on overcast days when rain is in the forecast.

Maybe it's time you had your soil tested by your local extension service. You can't know what may be lacking without a soil test.

I agree with greenhouser, get it tested. That way you will know what it lacks and can amend it accordingly.
Also, I do not plan on using Horse manure after this next year, and may be not then. To many weeds that won't compost out. I'll buy steer manure if I have to, but no more horse manure.

Could also be too hot night temperatures. I believe most varieties like 75 or below at nights for fruiting.

Tomatoes take a certain period of time/heat/light/etc. to go from seedling to bloom and again from bloom to ripe fruit. I typically don't start getting any ripe tomatoes until mid Aug. and they don't really start producing until sometime in Sept, often just shortly before the first frost. I've wondered if there was something nutritional or water related that caused this apparent late ripening, however I think it is just the conditions.

A couple of times in the past I've had tomatoes that got started in January or Feb. but can't plant them out until late May or early June. These early planted ones had to be pruned back before going out to keep their size under control, but they are usually trying to produce a lot of blooms before they go out. These tomatoes will start ripening in early to mid July, though. So--I figure that by the time my normal transplants get established outdoors, mature enough to bloom, go through being too dry and struggling a few times, they really don't start blooming until sometime in July and build from there with the result being that the tomatoes don't ripen until late.

i have so many tomatoes from 9 plants this year so far that i am sick of eat, canning and everyone i have givin them to are over them too i live in Southern Indiana and my tomato crop has been the best i have ever grown i have only fertilized them twice and it was a foliar feed both times using fish emulsion and liquified sea weed kelp i would estimate that i have picked over 600Lbs. of tomatoes so far this year my first tomato was picked on July the 3rd. of this year.... you are more than welcome to come pick all you want off of these outrages plants my friends