Tomato Growing Thread 2021

Yes pricked them out a few weeks ago.

 

I'm giving some feed, because I'm keeping plants that need to go out and be hardening off, in smaller pots than I would like.
I cant see a problem with feeding if the plants look like they are struggling, just another one of those myths that was said by someone many years ago and has been repeated until it becomes law.

 

I have 2 sets of tomato plants (sungold, Gardeners delight, shirley) in the house ready to plant out in polytunnel. Weather has been awful cold here with frosts recently.
One set of plants are already about 500mm tall and have flower buds forming, but the top growth leaves are curled and a little crispy in appearance.
Whereas the second set are smaller about 350mm but more healthier looking!
The first set were potted up about 2 weeks ago, the second set weren't. I used compost that came from household waste, the compost the local council give out, although it maybe 2 years old as none was given last year cause of covid.
I'm thinking better to plant the smaller ones out in the tunnel?
Top photo is the smaller healthier looking plants, bottom one is larger plants with the curled/withered looking leaves.

 

Hi John,
That could be it! Its only on the ones i potted up using the council compost.
The healthy ones were in john innes seed compost.
So much for free council compost!

 

Welsh agri sorry don't know how I did it but my reply came out as a pm!!!


Anyhow....... Yes I grow these I find them tasty quite different ,
unlike the red tomatos. Not a heavy yielded I got 20 odd from a plant.but the taste made up for it

 

Weedkiller affected tomatoes are usually misshapen and have a strange taste.
I remember a neighbour having this problem years ago, and the only thing we could work out was he had a box of weedkiller on the shelf in the greenhouse.

 

what would be a good compost for tomato plants?
Any of these?

New Horizon Peat Free All Veg Compost - 50L
Levington Tomorite Giant Planter With Seaweed 52L
I have my own comfrey liquid so can use that too when fruiting.

 

Personally, I think they grow pretty well in any compost, obviously one not contaminated with weedkiller, but as the main part of the plants life, when grown in pots, is all about feeding you cant really go wrong.

 

Have any of the growers on this thread ever suffered from planting tomatoes in the same bed year after year? I have done just this for about 5 years, adding plenty of new compost and manure each year but I live in fear that one year I will pay a price. If you experienced this, what happened? What did it look like?

 

I planted almost all of mine out yesterday now the nights look warmer. Most were fine but some of the younger plants provided a feast for slugs. I'm mightily huffed. Lucky I have some spares. Tomatoes dont suffer too much from slugs and snails unless they are young. What tips do people have for keeping the molluscs off?