I do not see any way it could be bird pecks as I have it covered with a net. Also all these were on the bottom close to the ground. I had already sprayed the sevin before I read your message. I am also not sure about the soil I used as I got it from a local company that deals in wood chips. The person that worked there told me it would be great for tomato plants but I have my doubts. You think it would be safe to eat these tomato's now since I did spray Sevin on them. It will be several days before any more are ready? Thanks

I appreciate the comments. What I'm really trying to figure out is why my largest tomato plants always produce bland tomatoes, while my smaller plants produce flavorful tomatoes. I have several theories, which I'm going to explore this year. In my garden (picture below), my tomatoes are planted along the back, and beets, onions, squash, etc., are planted along the front. I turn off the irrigation lines to the tomatoes once they start setting fruit, but the front side of the garden still gets watered. Theory #1: My largest tomatoes also have the largest root system, and they're running over to the front side of the garden where ample water is available, thus producing watery tomatoes. To test this theory, I plan on running a spade down the middle of my garden a few times this summer to prune any roots that are running across. Theory #2: The roots of my largest tomatoes also run deeper, to the bottom of my raised bed where there is a layer of hard packed clay. Perhaps rainwater is collecting there, and the bigger tomato plants draw up more of this water. To test this theory, I plan on putting my tomatoes out later this year, without the help of season extenders, so the plants don't have as much time to develop deep roots. Theory #3: (could apply to anyone's garden) Larger tomato plants have more self-shading than smaller plants, meaning there's less sugar available per tomato. I'm going to prune my tomatoes this year to 2 or 3 stems, to open things up and get more sun on the leaves. Theory #4: Some other stress factor is responsible for the smaller tomato plants being smaller, and those stressful conditions produce better tasting tomatoes. I'm going to try watering a couple times this summer with diluted seawater. I bought some Sea-90 from seaagri.com, to see if a little sea salt on the roots will stress the plants just enough to slow their growth and produce more concentrated, flavorful tomatoes. This picture of my garden was taken the first week of July. The 2 right-most tomatoes were started under a cold frame, and turned into monsters with bland tomatoes. The two staked tomatoes in the middle were put out later, grew comparatively smaller, but had much better flavor.

This is my first year with a veggie garden in a long time. I have massive plants. Only my Sun Gold cherry have fruit. The rest are starting to flower, but no other fruit. I was really bummed... I am hoping the other plants catch up, since they have finally started to flower a bit. I am in NJ, I don't know where you are, but I contacted my local master gardeners and they gave me some info. I will paste it here, and maybe it will help. They said it could 2 different things. 1) Weather  we have experienced 2 of the conditions that make tomatoes produce foliage but no fruit: heavy rainfall, high temperatures. 2) You may have too much nitrogen, and if so, you should stop using any fertilizer, unless you chose one that has 0 as the first number. I was certain it was the Nitrogen, but now thinking about the weather, they may have played a big factor in my plants production. We had SUPER hot weather all of June and when it wasn't really hot it was raining like crazy.

I haven't grown sungold, but the cherry I grew when I lived in Z7 (Sweet 100s I think), and that monster grew up the 6 foot cage, then down the other side of the 6 foot cage, and then 6 feet out along the line before I said ENOUGH and just cut off the vine. Cherry tomatoes can be voracious little suckers! I'll have to try sungold next year though. My son would love it. I grew yellow pear this year, but its really suffering disease pressure.