2016 Tomato Growing

The problem then I think is that you let them go nearly dry. I tend to water a little and often, unless the ground is clearly soaking, as it can be early in the season. Curling leaves is quite common, and isn't usually a problem. As the plant grows, the bottom leaves will often turn yellow and can be removed. I suppose if they weren't removed, they would turn brown?

 

Thank you for your advise all is not lost as I still have some bush variety which seem healty and doing well (famous last words) hopefully will have better luck next year !

 

Out of interest, how/where are you growing them?

 

The bush tomatos are out side in a south facing raised bed in compost have just let them do there thing have not done any pricking out the six I lost were in the green house

 

The ones in the greenhouse, were they in the ground? If so, has that ground been repeatedly used?
The ones outside look fine

 

the ones in the greenhouse were in 20

they were 2lt pots in compost I have not chucked them yet just banished to the bottom of the garden

 

20lt pots not2lt

 

I'll assume they are a Cordon variety. They should have had the sideshoots removed, but these look like they've been left to do their own thing. They also look like they have Botrytis, which might well have been avoided with good ventilation. I would just bin them and put it down to experience, there's always next year

 

Oh, and I would use slightly larger pots

 

What do you do with side shoots coming from the soil? (planted them slightly deeper) and honest opinions please.. more feed? more sun? give up?

My Gardeners Delight I left out since April..finally coming into flower! It's so puny (side shoots from soil??)


Golden sunrise.. I have about 4 trusses on each plant.. should I top them now?

the side shoot
and the hundreds and thousands...one pulled through, the other stayed sickly..got flowers though.


and I know this not the place for it but can someone advise me on my Sweet Pepper, noticed they have dark patches.. is this blossom end rot too yeah, flowers went brown? Ta

 

The first couple already got eaten but these are part of my first crop

 

Have the side shoots off and pot em up as separate plants

 

Looking good Lori

 

That's a useful tactic when growing from the likes of expensive non-F1 seeds [1], from a sowing of low germination, etc. In those circumstances I let side shoots develop to a reasonable size, cut them off (or tug off if from below soil level as those should have some roots), put them in a jar of water for a week or two until they've produced plenty of roots, then pot up but place somewhere not too hot & sunny for a few days until they establish.

The resulting plants can bear tomatoes very close to soil level and can be used to dramatically increase seed stocks. I bought 5 very expensive seeds earlier this year, sowed 4, and now have about 10 extra plants using this method of propagation, enabling me to keep them in various locations in case of blight and (hopefully) save seeds from 14 plants in lieu of only 4.

Alternatively, the original plants can be restricted to only 1 (or 2) fruits to produce giant tomatoes for competition, and the clones used to produce as many ripe fruits as possible for seed production.


[1] Plus an inexpensive way of increasing stock grown from F1 seeds.

 

Hi can anyone help please ? I lost most of my tom plants to inexperience - I lost some to blight , blossom end rot and Botrytis least I don't do things by half my question is can I reuse the compost as I have about 150lt ? Many thanks In advance