Tomato Growing 2024

Unfortunately not, I'll just keep exploring what I can use with the pots !

 

Ooh yes. Even more thinking required

 

@Nel_Staffs
Tomatoes are naturally a scrambling type of plant, stems can root when they come into contact with the soil. So you could grow to a height you can comfortably reach and then train them horizontally or you could loop them down and back up.
Quite often mine reach the top of the greenhouse and then get "trained" along.
Commercially they often lower, them run them along the floor and then back up.

 

Thanks @NigelJ . They grew such thick main stems , I'm not sure about the looping back down. It's all my sister's fault! She liked the look of the Costoluto on the seed packet but didnt realise we'd both end up with tomato jungles on our patios! The toms tasted so good and made lots of roasted tomato sauce at the end of the season. So, here we are again

 

I looked those toms up , so I can see how they'd be a bit big for a standard sort of support!
Not a type I've ever grown, but @NigelJ 's suggestion sounds like the best solution. Could you even have a pot each side of the one they're growing in, and shove some trellis or similar in there to make it easier to train, and harvest them ? Against a wall would certainly make it easier too if that's possible.

I've grown Sunglod for years @Loofah and they're pretty trouble free, apart from the one strange thing that happens - they never seem to get as far as the kitchen...

 

Ah , good thinking @JWK

 

Never thought I'd be such a big fan of growing tomatoes, I can't say I love eating them raw, but I do love them in sauces/soups/stews. I grew three varieties last year, Honeycomb, Burlesque, and Black Cherry. They were so nice even when eaten straight off the vine, now I'm finding supermarket ones just can't compare.

This year I'm going mad, I have, or will, be sowing the same as last year (seeds left over), and also First in the Field, San Marzano (mainly for the freezer), Alfresco, Chocolate Pear, Tumbling Tom, and Super Marmande. Don't have a greenhouse so they'll have to make do with being outside.

 

This growing season will be weird for me because we will probably move house in early May from London to North Wales. The new place has a greenhouse but no veg area so will have to make a new pottager this summer/autumn but unfortunately can't start tomatoes from seed as can't add fragile plants on top of the hundreds of pots from the garden that need to be moved alongside tonnes of ceramics, furniture and books.

Fingers crossed I'll find some tomato plants when we get there and make some space in the existing borders to grow some as I find them one of the most rewarding summer crops.

But definitely looking forward to altering the nearly half an acre garden and making something personal out of it. Until then I'll be living my tomato life through your posts

 

I inevitably end up with a tomato jungle in the greenhouse, so I can sit there on wet summer days working away eating tomatoes and listening to cricket on TMS.

 

Main sowings completed 13.03.: 12x for the greenhouse, 6x for the outdoors. As previously, soaked in aloe vera for 24 hours prior putting into the compost.

 

Sorry @pete I can't help here. In fact I've never noticed that name before.