2015 Tomato Growing

Thanks very much. They are still young so I did not feed them much


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Ta daaaa, the first tomato in the window box -Tumbling Tom,

Jenny

 

First fruit is appearing on the Giant Belgium in the greenhouse - I swear it wasnt there this morning when I was doing the watering..

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My tumbling toms seem to be doing well in my conservatory.
Loads of little toms on them. The ones I have outside that I sowed the same time are just starting to flower.
I have 6 Tomato plants in the background that were the experimental ones from gardeners world giveaway. I am going to harden them off next week to put outside.

 

I've just had a tomato tragedy....accidentally snapped my Cherola stem near the base. It's not quite snapped all the way through, so I've taken off much of the growth and supported it more, and hopefully it will survive. It's the only one I've got left as a couple of people wanted cherry types from me early on in the season. The poor thing has some lovely fruit coming and it's been outdoors since April. Last year I reckoned this one had the best flavour of all the little 'uns I was growing.


In the greenhouse I have....lots of aphids. Put some bio pest control in at the end of last week so hopefully they'll be down to a low level in a week or so. Still getting lots of megablooms in there but have Bloody Butcher, Ananas Noir and Teton de Venus fruit coming along nicely. The Teton de Venus seem a lot happier there in their Morrisons buckets than they were on the windowsill. My Magic Mountain blight etc. resistant tomatoes are speeding along. I got the seed very late but they are already as tall as the varieties I sowed much earlier and the greenfly don't trouble them.
Here is a picture of Teton de Venus I took at the Tomato Festival in the Loire Valley last year:

 

My Cherolas are coming along nicely from your seed ( no flowers yet though) and I gave a few to a neighbour who is very pleased with how hers are doing. I will make sure we save seed, and pass them back to you. I've got a lot of greenfly too, applied the organic spray last night, will have a close look today and try and pick off as many as possible. Growth is very slow in the greenhouse, May was so cold. I hope they catch up- the only flowers I've got so far are on a couple of Alicante I bought in March from the corner shop, all the heritage ones I sowed myself are way behind. Even the gardener's delight and Sungold are way behind last year's growth.

 

Still far too cold of a night to plant my outdoor tomatoes.

It was forecast for 7 deg C but went down to only 3.2 deg C at 5:00 am this morning. Lows of 7 deg C are forecast up to the morning of 11th June, so I'll delay planting out until then. As temperatures go down slightly lower over ground covered with plastic mulch sheet I'm still in danger of plants being frosted if they go out now.

EDIT: 6 deg C now forecast for the morning of Wednesday 10th June together with a NNE wind which will mean it could well be around 2 deg at my plot. All the tunnels are getting stuffed overnight with tomatoes waiting to be planted out. I've known the temperature to go below zero at that time of year and even kill tomatoes in cold frames.

 

Scrungee, do you live in a frost hollow?

 

My village is normally a couple of degrees lower overnight than the nearest town (where forecast temps seem to be for as they are always shown as identical to my village) plus they can be a further 2 or 3 degrees lower outside the village at my plot.

 

Hello chums
I watched Beechgrove Gardens a few weeks back where the presenter planted some Tomatoes. His advice was to water before planting, but not to 'water in', explaining that it helps the roots to go searching for water. Watching Gardeners World tonight, Monty advised to 'water in'. To me it makes sense to water after planting, if for no other reason than to make the transition less stressful. Any thoughts on this?

 

I am thinking about putting my bush plants into a bigger pot, it seems like I have to water it twice a day in the conservatory. I have also counted about 90 tomatos on this tiny bush plant alone. Would it do it any harm is I were to transplant it now that the fruit is growing?

I am assuming that as it continues to grow more shoots with flowers on that its doing ok in its current tiny pot though.

 

ive had to start again with my tomatoes ... all the plants got wrecked by being blown over and squished in the recent high winds :(
got some seedlings coming along, but may not do anything now as I guess its a bit late to be planting tom seeds? (I don't have a green house)