Well, we'll take this last season as an example. I don't know what date I planted, but we had a dry warm spring here so I would guess it was around mid-April. The plants grew very, very slowly. By June most weren't much more than waist high. Then, during the hot months, they all but seemed to die. We kept watering them, but most of the leaves yellowed and fell off, and tomatoes rottered when green (but not like blossom end rot) and hardly no blossoms were produced. Then in September they bounced back (while, most of them, some did die) and grew all new, bright green leaves, blossomed like crazy and put out tomatoes... unfortunately, an early (well, it seemed early for here, lol) freeze put an end to all that before anything was close to being ripe.
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