Like last year I bought enough of certain "named" Tulips to plant in front garden and in containers on back deck. No problem in either place last year...grew and bloomed. This year particular "name" isn't coming up in either ground or containers. While looking up names of tulips I remembered that last year I bought ALL Darwin Hybrids. Late last summer when ordering I read on web sites that Triumphs did better in containers than others so I bought them from Scheepers. I had 3 named Triumph Tulips: Spryng, Jan Ohms & King's Orange. 'King's Orange' foliage seems mostly to have come up in containers & in ground. 'Spryng" has pathetic foliage nubs sticking above soil in containers with a few larger sized nubs growing in ground. 'Jan Ohms' has nothing in containers with some nubs up in ground. Of course, this was delicate color to which I was really looking forward. They were all planted in late September with enough time to grow roots. This year I even further improved drainage in both container mix and in bed where they went into ground for better drainage. Although all Tulips grew/bloomed fine last year they were rotted in ground by Fall when I checked them so were replaced. Ones in containers were rotted by the time I took them out in June to replace with annuals. Daffodils that were mixed in same containers with Tulips were removed & stored in June and ground planted in Fall. They're fine and just started to bloom last week. I'm wondering about bulbs shipped last Fall or something to do with Holland crop since even Hyacinths & Iris Reticulata from Scheepers aren't doing great. Hyacinth blooms are very sparse on 3 colors and Iris blooms lasted 2-3 days. This theory probably won't hold up as I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of people who planted Dutch and/or Scheepers bulbs that had no problem. The container bulbs were up on deck under overhang all winter (like last year) until one sizable snow in early March when they got few inches of snow blown on top of them. I didn't clear it off figuring they hadn't had much, if any, moisture over winter. If that is what rotted bulbs in containers why didn't all 3 "names" rot or why did same "name" not produce in ground either right next to other "name" that did grow? Next year I'm going back to all Darwin Hybrids although it's probably some specific set of events that I can't see or blame for this year's poor showing. Maybe nothing more than letting 6 inches of snow melt into containers early March but that wouldn't explain why same named Tulips didn't perform in ground. Mysteries of gardening life. I'm just treating Tulips as annuals from now on even when planted in ground.

From the OP, I gather that it is the fruit, not the foliage which is being damaged by caterpillars. Hornworms eat the foliage. Fruitworms burrow into a tomato and eat it from withing. The only evidence from the outside is a hole, usually under the edge of the calyx, where it is inconspicuous. I'm still learning to battle the fruitworm after last year's invasion of my tomatoes, so I can't make any positive suggestions for control. Spinosad, BT and some other things are used. Search for info using "tomato fruitworm". Jim

Good advice from many regarding watering. Excess water and too much fertilizer are common problems with growers who are trying hard to take good care of their plants. Tomatoes do better with some neglect. Also, do NOT bury 80% of any healthy looking transplant. I have no idea why that was suggested. Instead set it into the soil so the first set of healthy leaves is about an inch above the soil surface. Deep burying is used as a remedy for very leggy plants grown with poor lighting. I cannot imagine a Bush Celebrity getting very leggy unless it was grown under terrible conditions. You would not want to buy such a plant. If you replace yours, set it into the planting hole only a little deeper than it is growing in the pot. And don't baby it :)

I don't see anything wrong with those tomatoes. It is August or maybe the end of July when you took the picture. It is 105 or so here. Mine are sunburnt, shriveled, stinkbug scared and I would be happy with those tomatoes. Go to the store if you want perfect red plastic tomatoes. By the way an article in Science News said that green shoulder genes bred out of commercial tomatoes may be partly why they have no flavor. The green shoulders make sugar. Here is a link that might be useful: green shoulders are good