Tomato Growing 2024

Potato or regular? I change my mind every time I look. I know time will tell but I'm impatient as ever.

 

Fairly sure it's two regular and one potato.

 

Morning everyone - I was checking my young tomato plant in the cold frame at 6.30am, all were sown on 17 March.
I was actually using my new toy -Water Meter - which puts my nervous disposition at ease while they mature to show me that I will not overwater!

My Baby Boomer Bush plant thanks to @eatenbyweasels is 10 inches tall and it looks like I have the first truss of budding flower at the very top! NOW! `do a nip it off to encourage the plant to grow more roots OR start giving the plant 10 day tomato feeds

 

I don't think I nipped out the first blossoms when I grew it, but I don't grow many bush varieties so I'm no expert. I'm a bit random re feeding, too.

 

Balc's Cherry, fruiting nicely and planted out at the front of the house. One of four small red cherries this year. Should be some interesting comparisons.

 

A couple of days later. One classic potato leaf but now I'm not sure if the other two are regular leaf or "mitten" potato leaf, or even one of each.

 

@Grandma Sue [QUOTE="My Baby Boomer Bush plant thanks to @eatenbyweasels is 10 inches tall and it looks like I have the first truss of budding flower at the very top! NOW! `do a nip it off to encourage the plant to grow more roots OR start giving the plant 10 day tomato feeds
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No - leave the flowers to open and form fruits.
Only start feeding when the first fruits start to form - so when the flower has dropped off and you see a tiny tomato on the truss, start feeding.
They will continue to grow roots and grow in size.

 

No - leave the flowers to open and form fruits.
Only start feeding when the first fruits start to form - so when the flower has dropped off and you see a tiny tomato on the truss, start feeding.
They will continue to grow roots and grow in size.[/QUOTE]
No - leave the flowers to open and form fruits.
Only start feeding when the first fruits start to form - so when the flower has dropped off and you see a tiny tomato on the truss, start feeding.
They will continue to grow roots and grow in size.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for your reply, duly noted that I must wait for toms to show before feeding " I should have realised this with my first grow last year. I am now getting into a habit of writing down everything as memory isn't what it use to be!

 

You and me both!

 

Yes - don't be in a hurry to feed @Grandma Sue - it just makes them too happy and you can end up with fewer flowers/fruits and a more foliage and general growth.
Mine are a bit later to germinate and grow on, and be planted in the final positions, and most are grown undercover, so they only get a few feeds in total. Once they have all their fruits, I tend to lay off the food

 

Planted out rote murmel and cloched it, repotted the rest of my outside toms and planted my dwarf ones in the converted shed. That's all the inside ones in their final place now. Outside blight resistant ones will hopefully go out in a couple of weeks at most, hoping for some decent weather end of may....

 

All planted up in the greenhouse. Now it's just a waiting game.

 

Noticed waitrose had a good selection of tomatoes, including grafted ones, incase anyone is needing more.3 for £12. Also had grafted aubergine, peppers etc. They all looked in good condition too

 

I planted tomatoes and peppers outside.
My micro ones got into bigger pots too. 2l pots per each isn't enough.