Tomato Growing Thread 2022

Glynn,

A YouTube video that has good information on Neem Oil and how to make it has been posted by Chillichump. He goes into how to mix it and how it works. Here is a link to his video.....



Hope this helps.

Best regards

Ademission

 

Thanks, JWK. I haven't seen the area myself but they are on an allotment in Hull, so think flat, low, with clay subsoil. I think I'd dig them up and put them in tubs, but yes, drainage trenches could be worth a shot.

 

From what I know of the chap concerned, he'll be well versed in the council's responsibilities.

 

"Bonsai Butcher"? The stunty Bloody Butcher plant on the front of the house, isn't letting up. Hazardous home made grog for scale.

 

Thanks very much Ademission! I very already bought the Neem oil, it's on its way! Also scanned the u-tube video! The only thing that worries me a little is that he needs to KEEP spraying! Appreciate that it's a treatment that persuades pests to go somewhere else! I'll let you know how I get on!

 

I'm interested in 'Best tasting Runner beans' on another part of the forum. Please respond if you can as I need to buy some seeds having lost ALL my previous sowing!!!!

 

I need a little advice please, as already mentioned two of my cordons have turned into bush varieties, so I would like to know at what point do I start to thin out some of the foliage?

They have started to set fruit on the first trusses, but these are covered with heavy foliage.

Cheers...

 

Stripping foliage only really starts once the the first truss is about to ripen and only then very limited.
On my bush type plants I do thin the foliage because I like to keep an airflow but that wont be for a few weeks yet.

 

I've got three plants of Incas on the allotment, they are bush and not blight resistant but I do like the plum type of tom.
I've erected my winter rain shelter over them and I can give them overhead cover if the soggy summer persists, if that will be enough to keep the blight away, I dont know.

In previous years I've always tried staking them and often ended up with sticks and string everywhere, this year I'm going for straw laid out around them and just let them do as they want, apart from a few leaves cut off here and there.

 

Yeah, sounds like me.

 

I've grown toms for over 20 years on our balcony & only had blight on one occasion! Even then it was probably my fault for coming home from the allotment with blighted toms only to go out on to the balcony without changing my clothes first!

Blight spores need wet foliage to germinate on so if you can keep them as dry as possible you shouldn't have too many problems.

 

Keeping them dry I know, but its not easy on a windy allotment in heavy drizzle.