Don't laugh!

Well here we were juggling our first season of growing tomatoes as well as a few other 'stuff' and thought we were doing so well only finding out yesterday we have been growing no end of side shoots that shouldn't have been allowed to grow in the first place!:o:rolleyes:

It was a total jungle in the greenhouse needless to say 'Jungle Jim' as now shown us the error of our ways and told Bob what to pinch out and what to leave, now all we have to do is hope we haven't left it too late for the tomatoes to grow!

It's so very embarrassing as there was even a thread on here showing pictures of what to take off...oh well as the saying goes there's one born every minute!:D Hel.xxx.

 

Ha Ha Ha Ho Ho He He Heee!!!! Only joking Helofadigger, most of yesterday I spent doing exactly the same thing to my own mini jungle, I now know the difference between cordon tomatoes and bush tomatoes and this is my third year as a greenhouse owner. I hacked off some pretty big suckers and have reduced them all to single stem plants, probably much later in the growing cycle than would be advised. I don't know if the post is the same one I used as a reference but http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/how-to/articles/pruning-tomatoes.aspx this is very helpful if there are any other struggling amatuers like me out there.

 

You can read and look pics as much you want, but one has to see and learn things "in the flesh" to make sense of things.

 

Hellen you know im gonna laugh (only because you said not to)



but i have to confese, that each night at least one of my tom plants gets dug up by a fox or a cat or some creature of the night.
At lease you know wot is wrong , im still tying to work out wot animal is digging up my toms

i know wot has caused the prob . ive used fish blood and bone in the tom bed. but i have a suspition that it's a fox that smeels out the fbb and had a dig

Hellen it is a fast learning curve

 

ah ha! I'd been cutting the lower leaves and suckers off and then wondering if I'd done the right

 

thing, well now I know I have, phew!!!
I knew this forum was a good thing!

K xx

 

same here ive got about 4 stems on most plants only a newbie tomato grower but ive got 4 other plants only 1 stem, im watching em like a hawk.
but still i have a second greenhouse now about 20 plants and around 275 tomatoes which ave formed dont know if thats good or bad so if its bad i will do better next year.
thjey say growing toms is easy but i reckon its not. but well worth it.
happy gardening.

 

Dont worry Hel, its all gardening experience. I make daft mistakes all the time. As long as we learn from them hey!! (part of the fun) 02

 

T Digger - excellent link to the tom instruction site . If I follow the tips and diagrams on that site I can't fail , can I ? :D

 

Thank goodness I'm not the only loon on here!:D

Now we didn't have a problem with our Tumbling Toms as they don't need to have any cosmetic surgery and boy is there an awful lot of fruits coming on them so even if we don't get many on the upright toms we won't go hungry! Hel.xxx.

 

i would have done the same helen but at least we are all learning..the only thing i had ever grown before i found G.C. WAS A TOOTH and some hair and even the hair as gone:D....ps i will laugh only a little bit sooorrryyyy

 

Smiffy, the answer is YES if you are anything like me.

 

My green house is turning into a jungle now as well and I'm going to have to be a bit serious about the tomatoes.
I just hate hurting the plant so I always feel bad when I have to take side shoots off.
I know....it is stupid really but plants have feelings, don't they?