Mick, in hot weather a tomato plant can swallow up to 3l of water a day. In hot windy weather they can drink 10l a day. If you are getting small fruit they need more water. I have also used hydroponic solution in the past with fantastic results. Also pinch out the side shoots and make them grow up, this will give you less fruit overall but the fruit you get will be much larger 
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Thanks mate, I'll chop those lower limbs off and tidy 'em up.
At the moment, they're growing all over the joint and it's as hot as buggery here at present along with the dry afternoon wind.
The pumpkins and cucumbers and water melons might get a haircut while I'm at it.
We're still getting fruit/veges but it's a battle.
Once the Wet Season rain starts, I reckon that the show will be over.
Then it'll be time to fire up the John Deere and start cutting grass.
That's gonna piss me off.
Hey Mick, here are the pictures of the tomatoes I promised you the other day. I've only got 5 plants in at the moment, got another 20 something seedlings coming up. It is simply two star pickets with an old curtain rod across the top. The string is tied off to the bottom of the plant and you simply wrap the plant around it as it grows up. I always leave the string about twice as long as is required so if the plant gets too tall you can lower it down and you just coil the plant up at the bottom. I had one a few years ago that had a stem about an inch across at the bottom and the vine was about 15' long. It produced some of the best tomatoes I've ever had. They were huge, the size of a cricket ball at least, some would have been pushing the size of a softball, and they had basically no seed, they were all flesh.
Thanks mate.
That's the go and I'll give that a whirl next year.
I put some longer stakes in and cut the bottom shoots off.
They're still fruiting and flowering so I'll wait and see what happens.
The tomatoes are nice tasting buggers even though they're just little poofta ones.
This is the cuttings from the Rosewood tree in my Mud Crab pot.
It was an 18 gallon keg that we found in Uncle Cyril's shed and we cut it in half with the angle grinder.
The capsicums are going good when the fcuken bandicoots leave 'em alone.
The lone watermelon.
I thought that they'd go mad but I reckon that they didn't get enough sun through the day.
Charlie's still waiting for that fcuken bandicoot to drop it's guard and he'll be right onto it.
He knows that the fcuka is still hanging around and he's getting pissed off waiting for it.
