Tomato newbie.

For the first time ever this year I'm giving veg growing a bit of a go. Just tentatively starting out, looking at you tube tutorials and such and finding my way really.

I have three "gardeners delight" tomato plants together in a large deep pot. They are about 5-6ft tall now and there are a lot of flowers developing.

At this point, as the flowers turn into fruit, do I need to adjust feeding, or just carry on every fortnight or so with miracle grow fertiliser?

If I do need to change my feeding a bit what is the best possible feed I can give them, and how often, for a good crop?

 

No need to feed tomatoes until the fruits set, just follow the instructions

 

They seem a bit tall to only be developing flowers?

 

Some of the tiny flowers are turning into tiny tomatoes, maybe pea sized at the minute. Hence the question really. I thought that once the tomatoes start showing you'd need to really increase the feeding to give the best crop? I thought tomato plants were extremely greedy?

 

What I mean is you usually get the first flower truss at around 2ft maximum, so by the time they reach 5 or 6ft they normally have some tomatoes that are quite well advanced if not already ripe.

 

Some flowers did start to develop earlier in the growth but for some reason nothing became of them. I have the plants outside south facing so they've benefitted from some good sunshine lately too, and have been watered daily. I'm as surprised as you are really because my mother in law's tomatoes, as you mentioned, flowered from quite small and are now bearing medium sized toms.

I'm fully expecting all these top layer of flowers to give me some success now, if I get the feeding right?

 

I did start feeding them as young plants. I had no idea feeding doesn't really need to start until the fruits start developing.

I had no idea about this. No wonder the lower flowers didn't develop! The top ones have a better chance I suspect because they're more open to the breeze.

 

I’d be interested to see a pic. 5 - 6ft at this time of year seems very tall.

 

This is it. As mentioned earlier there are three individual plants in this pot. All "gardeners delight" bought as 4" plants. I'm 5ft 9" and it's taller than me. I've wrongly been feeding these since the very start, which is evident from all the greenery, lol.

If you zoom in you can see all the tiny yellow flowers on the top layers, a lot are hidden too. No flowers on lower layers. It's solidly staked so if those top flowers all develop I may be ok, time will tell.

It's becoming obvious to me now that I've gone about this in the totally wrong way as regards to feeding.

Next time I will be getting dwarf varieties too, these things are just too leggy, lol.

 

I think you're going to need a pergola by August.