same for my tomatoes -3-

Actually, my tomatoes didn't do too bad despite a plague of tomato caterpillars chowing down on one of my four plants. I've gotten about 25 or so tomatoes off my 4 plants. I don't plant a lot of veg due to the small size of my property, which sits on a hill. The squash plants get the one plot of "level" land behind the storage shed. The tomatoes are grown in buckets on the edge of my driveway. I use to grow other stuff on my small, front lawn but the town started spraying weedkiller along the road, which killed off my beans and cukes a couple years back at which point, I wrote-off trying to use the front lawn.

I don't really have much of a backyard. A previous owner put in an in-ground pool (on a hill!!), which takes up most of the backyard. Then there's a steepish hill to the back corner of the lot, which is too shady to attempt to grow anything in other than grass and weeds, and even those struggle down there. (chuckle)

man then what the hell is wrong with my soil?

Sadly, that's not something I can help you with directly. Some garden centers can test a sample for you to help you determine what its missing. Most charge a fee though.

Me, I just bought potting soil and used that in buckets for my tomato plants (grown from seeds I started indoors).

Well I might just have to do that then!

At least it's better than nothing in my opinion.

I got a set of blackstar watermelons that are still small, but as long as the weather holds up another month, the fruit should get a bit bigger and we'll have more to enjoy. Too bad I started late in the year.