Tomato plants in grow bags or ground?

mardatha

six FEET ??????? EEEEK ! I have mine in a shallow wooden trough thingy on a bedroom windowsill, its only about 4" deep. WILL THEY ALL DIE ?
ARGGHH the suspense will kill me now !!!

Clive_Woody

mardatha wrote: »

six FEET ??????? EEEEK ! I have mine in a shallow wooden trough thingy on a bedroom windowsill, its only about 4" deep. WILL THEY ALL DIE ?
ARGGHH the suspense will kill me now !!!

I think possibly I was a little naive too, I was expecting nice little (30-40cm) plants with some nice cherry toms. A bit of a re-think is perhaps in order.

My Jersualem artichokes are almost 3 foot tall already, it will be interesting to see how big they get.

Primrose

Clive Woody - Yes, most tomatoes will grow up to six feet tall - certainly my Gardeners Delight, Moneymaker, Alicante all reach this height grown when planted outside in a border. If you want shorter plants you will have to nip out the main growing point after the second truss of flowers appears but then you will lose half your potential crop. The only other alternative is to growing the Tumbler type tomatoes which are short and bushy and whichcan be grown in deep hanging baskets or patio containers.

Lotus-eater

Well you can have bush tomatoes as well as the tumbler type, I have grown gardeners delight as a bush as it works fine, I'm growing one in my DD's small bed this year and I shall let it form 3 trusses then allow it to grow on one leaf joint off to one side (pinch out the others and let that form one truss supported on another cane, so its off the bed and not shading the other plants.
Well thats the plan anyway

But what I mean is that you can stop tomatoes whenever you like, or let them go rampant.

arkonite_babe

Pink-winged wrote: »

Probably of no interest to anyone but me, but I found my first tomato and four baby cucumbers earlier this week! :j I know it's daft to get excited by things like this, but I do.

Pink

I found my first tomatoes on my tumbler plants today, small but they are there:j:j:j

arkonite_babe

arkonite_babe wrote: »

I found my first tomatoes on my tumbler plants today, small but they are there:j:j:j

Just to prove to PinkWinged that the tomatoes are there!!!!!!1

Pink.

Wow ark, I'm impressed! :T I suppose that this means I'm going to have to get the camera out tomorrow to take some pics of mine. :rolleyes:

Pink

arkonite_babe

Pink-winged wrote: »

Wow ark, I'm impressed! :T I suppose that this means I'm going to have to get the camera out tomorrow to take some pics of mine. :rolleyes:

Pink

Yep!! Those are the tumbler toms that are outside in all weathers too. The ones in the greenhouse (Bambino and another one) are still flowering but no toms yet

Elia_2

I'm a tomato-growing newbie too - I got the plants a week or so ago and they aren't dead yet, so that's something!

mardatha

Mine are getting taller on my back bedroom windowsilll, but its so cold and sunless I fear for their wee lives...