What can I do with my tomato plants?

[Rob1n]

My first attempt at growing something. Stupidly now I realise, I planted all the tomato seeds in the packet (tumbling tom variety). then I planted a few of the shoots all into one medium sized patio container and now I realise, now they have grown quite a bit, that it was far too many for one pot! Can I dig some of them out to transfer to other pots? How many plants per pot? Just one? What will happen if i just leave them all together?

Thanks

I did a similar thing to you and ended up with far too many seedlings! I gave some away actually, I had so many.

The ones I've kept, I've mostly put into a pot each but some I've put into troughs, 4 plants to a trough. I've also got 3 plants in a grow bag. So far, the ones in the grow bag and individual pots are doing the best.

Thanks, I thought I will prob. give some to the neigbours. Do you know if I will do more damage by trying to transfer them now they have got themselves established?

They should recover fairly well. I tend to repot mine when they are twice as tall as the pot is wide and then put them one to a 12 inch pot.

give them a weak feed of tomato food (ie half normal dose) and they should get over the shock pretty quickly!

yes sorry you will have to pull the rest out and leave 1 plant per pot. Leave the strongest one there and move the others.
Or you can plant in growbags, 3 per growbag.

if you leave them all together they will not get enough nutrients and won't do very well.

good luck!