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Why are the flowers falling off the bushes with no tomatoes? It happened 2 times planting the seeds & plants.?

I planted tomato seeds in my garden. just about all the flowers are falling off. Only a few bushes have one or two tomatoes on them.

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1. I don't know where you live or what the night time temperatures are but that can be a problem. Tomatoes need night time temp below 70 degs F to set fruit. One cure is to use Blossom Set that you can purchase at many garden centers.
2. Red Devil, in general, you are far too early with your tomatoe plants. The weather is too variable, cold, then warm, then windy, and as well as that the ground has not really warmed up yet. Ground temperature needs to be about 40 degrees to start. I would be putting my plants in about the end of May to crop from August onwards. Try it let me know how you get on.
3. Is it possible that you could have over fertilized them, perhaps using something new? Other than that, look closely for pests like worms, beetles, leafminers etc. If you are in the southern US its definitely not too early for tomatoes. I'm in Louisiana and I've got tons of them on my vines right now about to start ripening. I started planting my seeds indoors in mid February and put them outside mid March.