Tomato Growing Thread 2021

Got my first ripe tomato this morning - a Sungold, but it was split.... and I dropped it on the compost with the split side down so it got lobbed to the birds. After last years bumper tomato crop this year is looking pretty poor, almost certainly not helped by the fact that I cannot find my tomato food so am feeding with growmore at the moment.

 

All mine are kind of stalled, picked a handful today and even a few not properly ripe to bring indoors on the windowsill. We need a big dose of sun.

 

Don't give up, I can see plenty coming in your photos.

 

From Thursday, our prayers will be answered thankfully.

 

Aye, I must admit I am not holding out a lot of hope for most things this year - - things like sweetcorn are going nuts, my brassicas seem to be as good as I have ever grown (not a kitemark mind you!), my peas are rubbish, but then they always are as I seem to repel peas.... I have the odd tomato plant that have fruit that look pretty good just very few fruit... not a great year.

 

Our forecast shows solid sunshine for the next two weeks with temps in mid to upper 70's. Hot enough for both me and the garden.

 

Just in time for me going back to work...

 

I'll give you a giggle....

Being a wee bit short on space, having filled a couple of trough-style planters with chillies, I decided to put some chillies into hanging baskets that I then hung from the roof inside the greenhouse; not a clue what type they are as they weren't labeled when we bought them, but we knew there was a bit of a mix of peppers. Turns out, a couple of the ones in the hanging baskets aren't chillies.... they are sweet peppers! I will try and get a photo later

 

Here they are - they seem happy enough I suppose...

 

This one is apparently a heritage variety - don't know which one at the moment, but will try and find the label for it. Seems happy enough.



My one and only Beefmaster...

 

Cucumbers are slow for me:



here is the rest of the peppers


and the rest of the tomato jungle