THE TOMATO GROWING THREAD 2018

An old name for it is 'knitbone'. Wonder if it would be the best feed for varieties prone to BER like San Marzino (AKA Heinz)? I feel another trial coming.

 

I mix a bit of garden lime into the final soil/medium of varieties that are vulnerable to BER, such as plums.

 

I prefer calcified seaweed

 

Too early do not risk all your hard work

 

That prompts a whole sort of debate that I'll make a diary note to reply to tomorrow.

 

I'm having to try something different this year with my toms. After our house move, the greenhouse in the new garden is only a small one, there's no room to plant them into the border soil, which was always my preferred method.

So this year I'm just doing three Gardener's Delight plants, grown in large 20lt pots filled with a roughly 50/50 mixture of soil and well rotted manure, with a good handful of fish, blood & bone mixed into each pot.



I'm also going to grow a few Manx Marvels in large pots, placed in sunny spots around the garden and see how they get on.

 

I wonder if anyone can advise me on what's happening to my Tumbling Toms in the greenhouse, each evening as it cools down there are small droplets of fluid appearing on the tips of the leaves and from where I have snapped off some side shoots.

Not sure if the fluid on the leaves is due to humidity, as I have a bucket of water standing in the greenhouse to raise the levels or whether the fluid is being expelled by the plant?

The fluid at the side shoots if definitely coming out of the plant, could this be from over watering?

 

Have a look here, it explains it better than I can.
Guttation - Wikipedia

 

Thanks Pete...the link explains it very well, so maybe I'm giving the plants a little too much water?

 

Thanks John...will carry on as before.

 

I'm growing in greenhouse for first time ever so just a complete beginner.

Tomatoes I'm going to grow which will be going into halo pots and grow bags are:

Moneymaker
Tigerella (Mr Stripey
Emerald Green Cherry
Cherry Snow White
Black Zebra Bush Cherry
Banana Legs
Cherokee Smokey Purple
San Marzano

 

Some nice choices there exepting money maker (plenty of toms easy to grow but very little taste.

 

After a lapse in tomato growing for six years I now have a greenhouse again and am trying the following:

Black Russian
Sweet Aparitif
Orkado
Sungold
Tumbling Tom Red
Tumbling Tom Yellow

All except Sungold are new to me. Planted them out today.

 

Black Russian were really tasty for me last year, lovely roasted too. Really bummed I'm not growing them this year.

@sandymac thank you! You have just reminded me.. I intended to do a trial with canna coir and the feeds a&b with cal/mag this year (after reading your posts last year.)

Am also going to try just comfrey.. or would I need something to supplement it?

Found my first flowers..they really need to be potted on. Redoing the polytunnel cover tomorrow so will take them up this weekend