Tomatoes

[nikkie]

Anyone elses plants flowering?

I've got flowers and tiny green tomatoes. also, i know it always says nip out the sideshoots but if you leave them they eventually form more flowers for later fruiting. I pick off the really big leaves to save energy instead. I've had toms until late October doing this. And you can put your old tea bags around the plants to conserve moisture and feed the plants too (my dad told me that one!).

Anchovy... "...DH got home from work to relieve the nanny" - you are very understanding !!!

with the sea fog that has rolled in the last 2 days, what chance has my little tomato bushes have when the rest of you lot are boiling? luckily, i only planted cherry tomatoes so can sit on the competition sidelines.

I have tomato plants! I have tomato plants!

On the allotment (see how I snuck in a reference to the allotment there?) we have gardeners delight which should have side shoots pinched out but I haven't bothered yet and in pots at home, we have some gartenperle and some tumblers which were sown very late in the year.

oooohhhh, i want an allotment! i want an allotment!

'Tis brilliant - very relaxing (even when digging). Our first year so got off to a slow start and still waiting for lots of things to get going although we have had some lovely new potatoes.

I had an allotment, but i had to give it up

oh, I am sorry about that - you must miss it.

Well, it didnt really ever get off the ground. It was in a really poor state, covered in brambles and nettles. it was 16mx14m (cant remember how many poles that is).

i got pg about a month after i took it on and developed SPD, then PND after DS was born so it was just never gonig to be possible. Huge shame though.

It got left to get overgrown and when they asked me if i still wanted it i had to say no

Maybe again in the future, when my two are big enough to do the digging for me

Oh poor you! SPD followed by PND sounds really awful. As you say. maybe when the children are older as it is good to have some helpers for the digging!

Sorry, will stop hijack now and let this thread get back to tomatoes.

LOL yes! Sorry....

MUST remember to water mine tonight when i get in...

checked today - one pea sized tomato on one of my many tomato plants - oh well, i will catch up soon(ish).

the tomatoes have gone beserk here - they're taking over the garden. Been out there pinching sideshoots just now - the little tinkers just keep regrowing

how's everyone else doing?

MIne are taking over too!
24 plants (plus other stuff ) in a backyard starting to feel like a jungle!

Mine are taking over - had to do some extra staking. They are sucking up water like nobody's business too.

The beefsteak ones are HUGE now. Havent measured but they are the size of a standard tomato, just dark green and rippled.

Cherry ones are coming along too now and small peppers are appearing as well.

Harvested some carrots, beetroot and courgette at the weekend adn cooked straight away for dinner. They were lovely!

i now have a few cherry toms on my 2 plants. still have lots of blossoms too! i bought some chipotle pepper seeds and now i have a few peppers the size of peas. Chuffed though.

My dd has already picked 3 of the 4(!) strawberries that were on the little bushes. we may have to go to a pick your own field this weekend. oh the joys of being a first time mum.

Mine have gone crazy - can't keep up with staking and pruning out the side shoots. This hot sunny weather is just perfect for them.

Have had a really good do of mine today and tided the yard up, looks so much better and have about 100 toms now -hope they aren't all ripe at the same time!

hello everyone

am a total newcomer to this growing stuff lark, but am v enthusiastic. i know absolutely bugger all though, so some advice is needed!

have two large beef tomato plants and siw little cherry tom plants, in varying states of health.

question is: a couple of my big fat beefsteak toms have developed these sort of rotten looking brown patches... i have taken them off the plants in case whatever it is spreads to other toms... is it a disease? or is it just some quirk of thos particular toms? am i right to take them off?

help please.

cheers!

Are the brown patches at the base of the tom? It could be blossom end rot. It means you need to give them lots more water. Can also be caused if soil is too acidic. Large toms like beefsteak are more prone to it. This hot weather means they need far more water than we think. Hope the rest of your crop is ok.

Yes, my beefsteak ones have got some tomatoes with this on.

Ive not been watering my plants as frequently as i should have been but the past two weeks i have been. Its only the ones that were growing before then that appear to have a problem.

whoooo hoooo

I have to red ones, I have two red ones

KS - where are you?

(actually they are more orange than red, but still)

oi KS

I'm throwing down the gauntlet here........