What's wrong with my tomato plant?

[StarlitTrees]

My cherry tomato plant isn't happy but I don't know why. It looks dehydrated but the soil is moist (not wet) and the brown leaves arent crispy.
It's in a large pot, with a drainage hole, in full sun, I planted it about 3 weeks ago in soil especially for tomatoes and its gradually getting worse.
It's clearly not totally unhappy as it has just sprouted some yellow flowers.

Any thoughts?

are actually warm weather plants and don't grow well( taste great) whengrown in Britain

Tomatoes grown in Britain taste just fine thanks.

@sackrifice yes they do taste 'fine' but not great. They need the hot sun.

Maybe you're just not a very good tomato grower, oldishlady Or you're growing the wrong varieties.

OP it's more than possible to grow amazing tomatoes in the UK. I do. I'm obsessed with tomatoes. I don't have a greenhouse so mine are all grown outside -but I do start them off indoors and won't put them out until the weather is warmer and there is no frost risk. Of course, they want the sunniest spot.

Blight is always a possibility however, and growing outdoors means my tomatoes are especially vulnerable. So I grow loads (LOADS!), in case my growing season is cut short.

Are you surrounded by trees OP?
We have lots of big pines beyond the end of our garden and I'd say this makes you much more prone to blight [all sorts of fungal spores blowing about]
Outdoor tomatoes have always failed with blight for me. I'm lucky enough to have a small greenhouse so grow the under cover now, but always in fresh growbags each year.
Try putting your tom plants against a warm sunny wall which will radiate heat back at night, or trading them in for something like courgettes which will grow outdoors.

Good luck, nothing nicer to eat than something you grew yourself!

@TheSpottedZebra I'm
An absolutely shite 🍅 grower and happy to admit that but it's a fact that they really need the hot sun to 'shine ' as food. Like grapes ,olives and 🍉

Well here we go again. Wish me luck.
I do have a few trees round here jen but they're mostly silver birches.

I have room at the top of the greenhouse at the minute for a shelf so I'm thinking of growing something else in there. Maybe some strawberries?

This is just the beginning, I feel.
We have only been in this house a year and I'm enjoying having a bigger garden. I unsuccessfully grew some tomatoes at my last house, not cherries though. They looked fine, the plant got huge, but they just didn't taste good.
My new bigger garden means I'm pottering about out there much more now though and I'm hoping to grow something deemed edible this year!

My little bees will help, I'm sure 😊

An absolutely shite 🍅 grower and happy to admit that but it's a fact that they really need the hot sun to 'shine ' as food. Like grapes ,olives and...

Actually what they need is soil.

We get tomatoes over here grown in Spain that taste of water. Because they were grown hydroponically.

I have grown gorgeous tomatoes in Britain. I don't manage it every year and I have learned from experience that it's easier to succeed with the smaller ones than the big beefsteak varieties, but they can be amazing.

That thing about not watering plants during the day or getting water on the leaves because the sun burns them - it is a long-held myth and has been disproved completely.

If a plant needs watering, then water it - if you leave it until the sun goes down then in the worst case it could dry out and die while it is waiting for water. At the very least the shoot tips and fine feeder roots that will dehydrate and be damaged.

And sunlight on droplets on wet leaves definitely does not cause burning. Look around you the next time there is a shower and the sun comes out 5 minutes later. Do all the leaves get damaged? No they don't.

of course it depends on how hot it is out. disproved or not, where i live it makes a big difference. if a plant was desperate at high noon, i'd water at the base.

I've watered my plants in the middle of the day and they have never been burnt by the sun.

This was disproven years back. I have no idea why people still think it, I've never seen a leaf burnt by the sun.

I water at all times of day because I have no particular routine, but I think they have more chance to soak it up overnight without it evaporating so quickly.

Some of My very tasty tomatoes (and a few carrots from one of my raised beds) from last summer (greenhouse put up mid summer, tomato plants donated by my gardening buddy). Glasgow, so hardly the warm South Coast

Ooh lovely prettybird. Have you grown them next to tropical paintings so that the tomatoes don't know they're in Glasgow? Maybe that's the trick, fool the tomatoes into thinking they're in warmer a climate!

That was painting my FIL did (it was originally his greenhouse, which dh took apart and moved to our house) which we've kept in his memory. Last summer was of course a particularly good one. I've bought a wee set of water colour paints so that I can touch it up and then we'll varnish the three panes to protect them.

Oh that's painted into the glass of the greenhouse? Lovely!