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New to Growing Tomatoes--Problem

17 years ago

My husband and I decided to grow tomatoes this year and we are novices when it comes to gardening as a whole.

We purchased 2 tomato plants at our local farmers market (Mountain Fresh & Royal Mountie). These are both determinate, if that means anything to you (it barely does to us). We also purchased a cherry tomato plant at the farmers market but are not sure of the type.

Then we purchased a green bell pepper plant at Lowe's.

We built a 4'x4' raised bed and filled it with a soil/manure mixture (10x40-lb bags of topsoil, 8x40-lb bags of Scott's manure/humus). We transplanted each plant into their own 2'x2' quadrant, put cages over the tomato ones, staked the bell pepper plant, and watered.

This was pretty much all done on Saturday/Sunday. Monday and today (Tuesday) our Mountain Fresh and Royal Mountie tomatoes look a bit wilty (though, they didn't look perfect when we purchased them). Have we done something wrong or is this normal and they'll start looking better soon?

As I said before, we're completely new to this so perhaps their is something obvious to the rest of you that us dullards just don't know ;-)

We are located in Western New York/Zone 6 according to GardenWeb.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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