Tomatoes

[nikkie]

Anyone elses plants flowering?

Ok, I've started another thread under Chat - MN Village Fete

Putting forward the suggestion, and asking for ideas. Let's see what everyone thinks!

I am experimenting this year as I am growing my cherry tomatoes in a hanging basket - present from my mum, masses of flowers & quite a few very small green tomatoes.
The best thing is you are told not to pinch them out, just let them grow wild.
Will let you know in a few more weeks if it actually works

sound good Debbie - but with cherry tomatoes, you will be unlikely to join the contest between myself and ks for who's got the biggest one

No, but can we have a subdivision of the most tomatoes on one plant !!! At least I could enter that one

are you quite sure that you didin't have a finger under the tape measure, ks?

have beeen out watering mine just now

think I'll start talking to them

Ok...WHAT are you measuring...I wanna join in!

charliecat - we're measuring the size of our tomatoes (circumference)

thats like all the way round yeah? be back in a tick....

LOL, got half way up the garden and realised you have TOMATOES. Mine are just flowering now

waht were you going to measure? the main stem?

Actually, one year my Dad went to Sainsburys, bought a load of "on the vine" tomatoes and draped them over his plants to piss me off about how well his tomatoes were doing!

I think this was the entirely correct emoticon . (Followed by when he came clean)

nice one Anchovy

(gives me an idea how to get one over on ks......)

I have flowers and little green tomatoes. Wish id staked mine earlier though...they are looking decidedly wonky.

I was gonna measure how fat my plant was at its biggest bits

nip out and measure the biggest one VVV

OK I'm gonna measure height now......back soon

OK my tallest tomato plant is 124cm - and that's with the top pinched out

Debbiethemum - sorry you can't play this one either

is this where all the tomato anoraks are gathering?

[runs off to find her anorak]

If i nipped out right now my work would have something to say about it

The height of them is approx 2-3ft - varying from variety.

The largest green tomato I have seen is the size of your average cherry tomato (10p diameter approx). BUT its a beefsteak variety so i dont know if that is saying an awful lot! Will have another look when i get home though.

that's competitive tomato anoraks to you kiskidee

VVV - that sounds like a contender - be sure to measure it and post result.

KS is currently in the lead at a circumference of 8.5cm

I'm in second place with 8.1cm

My toms at the moment are just cherry ones in hanging baskets but have around 20 plants (different varieties) .
Two tallest plants are 4ft 8inches!

Will do! DP will think im a nutter! Well, more than usual!

Might check out my longest pea pod too.....

my dh just fell about laughibg when I grabbed the tape measure just now and measured the height