Tomato plant - turning yellow

Please see attached pictures of the tomato plants (seed grown). They were fine until they have started to turn yellow from the bottom. Not sure what should be the next step.

 

I find quite a few of my more mature outdoor tomato plants begin to go like yours about this time of year as the last fruit swells and ripens and, since there are no (or very few) flowers to worry about, I either just leave them or cut them off if they get too unsightly. I've always put it down to the plant just 'shutting down'. That said, it could also be a sign of a magnesium deficiency.

 

Hi keyboardape.

I think this is quite normal. Just a sign that the plant is now losing a lot of it's vigour. I've been growing tomatoes for three years now, and every year they do exactly the same. Like a lot of folks, I just take out the leaves as they die off.

Cheers...Freddy.

 

Yes the yellowing is due to the time of year. Over the last two or three weeks I've stripped my plants of most of their leaves to allow the remaining fruit to ripen, with the little sun I'm getting now.

 

When should I just give up on the tomatoes in the greenhouse and clear it all out?

 

Hiya Gill.

Maybe a bit more information? Are they not ripening?

 

Well first off, I am new here and my first six months gardening, so information is not Gospel

I am in Fife
I had lots of green tomatoes, not ripening, so two weeks ago I cut my losses feeding and culled 50%

Just this week the remaining tomatoes, are turning orange, and I had twenty Red ones yesterday, very tasty

My take on it now is hang on in there until the clocks go back or first frost whichever is the sooner, then crop the lot into a dark drawer

I really do not have a clue, but after being disheartend am quite happy again that I have some fruit and IT IS DELICIOUS better than any bought tomato
The taste that tomatoes had when I was a child in erm erm 1958

Hang on in there

Jack McHammocklashing

 

for goodness sake don't throw all that good fruit away make chutney or pack away undamaged tomatos in tissue in a cardboard box and wait a few weeks (one year we had red tomatos in october.

 

Hello,
This has happened to my outdoor tomatoes in the past, I remove the leaves and give them a good feed of good quality tomato feed. Happy Gardening