Tomato Growing Thread 2023

Thanks for thoughts re my blight attack. All infected parts bagged and green Tom's entrayed.
Now I've got to decide if the soil the plants grew in can be used again. I appreciate that I can't grow Tomatoes or Potatoes in it but what else would be silly to grow??
I've got an idea to use the system to grow over wintered Broad Beans, two beans per spot??
What do you think??

 

Have you grown them on 3 main stems instead of a one single, if so, they look really good

 

What worries me is that Blight might affect plants of an other genus??

 

I think blight is pretty specific in its hosts.
Mostly potatoes and tomatoes, I've grown Physalis next to tomatoes with blight, and although its the same family it never shows any signs.

 

Yes, that's what's recommended for all the Dwarf Tomato Project varieties. I have Dwarf Mary's Cherry in the greenhouse and am letting it go to several stems too.

 

Found some more dodgy leaves on the back garden plants. Binned the lot. No time for messing about.

 

Check for woodlice, a new threat found this year. Little tiny critters , hunkered down.

 

Had a good de-leafing session in the greenhouse and gathered these. Kennedy, Der Kleine Doctor, Not Black Truffle, Not Pineapple Fog.

 

As I am having a tomato frame made for my 3 plants next year, I have been looking into simple ways to tie up my tomatoes -codon style, to make things easier for myself.
I have a full packet of YOYO Supports I bought years ago that my husband found in the shed, and was wandering if anyone has used them?

MY yoyo supports are on a nylon cord with a locking device in the middle of the yoyo which will be attached to some wire going horizontally across the top of my frame then dropped down to the tomato plants.

On seeing a few video’s I have noticed that the cord is secure to the base of the plant and slowly twisted around the stem as it grows? (this has made me think that if the cord is made of nylon there is a chance that it may cut into the main stem!
So now I am looking on a safer way around this; by fixing the cord taught to the bottom on the stem using a Velcro tie and then use tomato clips which will grip the cord and fit loosely around the main stem as it grows.

 

I've always just used good old soft string, (hemp type) in the greenhouse and twine it around the plant as it grows, some people bury the string in the pot at the bottom but I just use a non slip knot around the base of the stem.
Never had a problem with it.

 

Agree but think jute is better, it will last for one season ,can be hand snapped to size and will compost easily. Hemp needs to be cut, and withstands composting.

 

Brown string, I just assumed it was hemp.
Natural fibre anyway.

 

Another vote here for plain old jute garden string. Sometimes it can leave corky traces where it rubs the stems but for the most part, the key is to leave enough spare at the top of the length to relax it as the plant grows.

I'm editing to confess I didn't know the difference between hemp and jute.