tomatoes for arizona????

[highwayman]

my girl friend sister is having trouble growing tomatoes in arizona. any ideas.

[longwinters]

Wish I could help....I might as well live on a different planet as AZ is on.  Has she tried to look up growing maters, in AZ,  on the internet??  I would think it would be the 1st place I'd start.

Long

[mauser98us]

South side of the hous,where they don't get too much sun when she starts to get hot.Somebody who works with my wife grows them and they are mighty good. I will have her ask him for tips.

[bilmac]

I have grown them from Arizona to Alaska. I can't remember the variety I grew there but what I have found is that the plants sold by local nurseries or even dept. stores are usually the correct ones for your area. I put up the sun screen mesh type stuff when the temps started getting extreme.

[JBlk]

In the eairly eighties I moved to southern Caliornia and planted some tomato plants.I grew the best vines that you could get, but no tomatoes.I think that the artifical watering and the lawn fertilizer had a big bearing on the plants.She probably has very similar growing conditions. Her best bet would be to contact another gardner in that area and see what they are doing to get a good crop.