aarrggghhhh, killed tomatoes with kindness?

[RippingYarns]

i've got a grow bag with lovely bushy tomato plants in, but no fruit forming

i think i've over-fed them - what can i do to save them, or have i got to put this year down to experience?

I think it's just too early in the year. I've got really good growth on mine, but only just starting to get flowers through. And I'm in the sunny South coast.

the flowers are coming to nothing though, i've had dead flowers for over a week and the fruit just isn't forming

i have a hanging basket plant that is teeming with fruit

Odd. Are they inside? If so, give them a gentle shake every so often to encourage pollination.

Oh :( have you been feeding it?

Ah yes, good point about pollination. I have been known to hand pollinate mine with a fine paintbrush

i've been doing all that, these are outside in a sunny place

i've broken them, haven't i?

I blame the rubbish start to the year... The weather has probably left your tomatoes traumatised.

Ignore them for a few weeks and you'll probably have a fine crop!

could be, i've chopped all the huge leaves off so hopefully they will pick up again soon

i want to make chutney, and pasta sauce, and greek salads

probs have enough to go in a cheese sarnie

Well, that's more than I've got so far. But I think I just need more patience.

should I be chopping the big leaves of my plants? mine are in the greenhouse in growbags and have a few poxy little flowers

I chop them off as lots of leaves use lots of water, and since mine are in a bag, that's effort I can't be arsed making :-D

I think two of my plants have blight I'm gutted.

flowers coming to nothing tends to mean poor pollination. Gently shake them, mist them with water, brush them with a soft brush or be glad the insects will be around now the weather is improving.

wooo, I have tomatoes! ! tiny green ones do I feed them now?

i think i have some tomatoes coming now too

we shall have chutney after all

Blimey! I'm only just getting flowers.

I saw my first bee in our garden about 5 days ago so I've been buying all the remaindered bee-friendly flowers I can find and planting them all week, for encouragement. Tom flowers would have been wasted a week ago, but this morning I saw at least 5 bees flying around while I watered. (And I've been killing slugs and snails with pellets this year too.)

Hooray! Maybe we'll have tomatoes this year!