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Primrose

I think the third week of May for planting out outdoor tomatoes is about right. I sowed mine far too early this year and they are consequently getting leggy but it,s too cold to plant them out yet although they could be hardened off for a few hours outside during the day if the temperature rises.

I,ve grown chillies both indoors and outdoors. Indoors will work if you have a large pot and can keep them near a sunny window but on warm days they will definitely benefit from being outdoors and getting some natural sunshine. They will also benefit from having their leaves receiving an occasional water misting.

Pablosmummy

Thanks all, I shall play it by ear and see what the weather does I think, looking at the forecast it's meant to improve a bit next week.
Potted on one of my cayennes and it's now looking marvellous in an indoor plant pot I found under the sink. It's quite a large pot so I'm going to have to move it every time we use the table but there we go.
Also potted on my two pumpkin seedlings and a teeny tiny geranium. That's pretty much it for the week now, I will hide inside from the rain and hope my tomatoes don't get so big I can't fit them on the windowsill ...

spadoosh

Not sure if ive wasted some money or not but bought quite a few bare root fruit bushes that where on clearance. (i paid £2 for 8 of them, red currants, black currants and gooseberries).

Any ideas what i can expect from planting them and any ideas for giving the best chance of being successful?

Primrose

spadoosh wrote: »

Not sure if ive wasted some money or not but bought quite a few bare root fruit bushes that where on clearance. (i paid £2 for 8 of them, red currants, black currants and gooseberries).

Any ideas what i can expect from planting them and any ideas for giving the best chance of being successful?

Be prepared for a few failures but with some TLC you my be lucky if you're prepared to wait awhile before they start providing a generous crop.

Dig the soil well around the roots and sprinkle in some chicken manure pellets or a general fertiliser. Alternatively put some well rotted manure around the base of the buses after planting and keep them well watered until established, especially in dry weather.

If you cant plant them immediately keep the roots in water and don't let them dry out.

spadoosh

Primrose wrote: »

Be prepared for a few failures but with some TLC you my be lucky if you're prepared to wait awhile before they start providing a generous crop.

Dig the soil well around the roots and sprinkle in some chicken manure pellets or a general fertiliser. Alternatively put some well rotted manure around the base of the buses after planting and keep them well watered until established, especially in dry weather.

If you cant plant them immediately keep the roots in water and don't let them dry out.

Thanks for that. Fully expecting nothing to crop this year just hoping its not too late to get them established.

Primrose

At that price, just getting them established will be quite an achievement and you still have the bulk of the growing season to get them settled in.

Silvertabby

unrecordings wrote: »

For tomatoes - never again, we get blight here, so I only grow in the greenhouses

For chillis - yes I grow indoors, but as you've mentioned be sure to put them outside regularly when they flower so they can pollinate

Tomatoes and chillies have their 'boy and girl bits' in the same flower, so indoor/greenhouse plants just need a gentle shake to pollinate them.

I once gave some spare plants to a couple of work mates, but never again. I told one chap (a lifelong bachelor) how to pollinate his plants by giving them a little jiggle - and he threw a hissy fit at the idea of 'doing the dirty' with a plant !

The other colleague had a go, but reported that while the plant was healthy, she didn't get a single chilli. Determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, I asked if she had followed my instructions carefully. Yes, said she - and listed them. Unfortunately she had added her own 'must do' of carefully dead heading the 'dead' flowers........

zafiro1984

Tomatoes, sweet peppers, chillies and aubergines all are indoors here - we have blight by the bucketful.

I wont be putting anything outdoors except potatoes until the beginning of June and we live almost within sight of the south coast.

I've been busy indoors - almost finished the beds, just got half of the last one to do. I did nothing last year so you can imagine how overgrown and weedy it is, but I'm determined that this year I'll be as close as possible to self sufficiency in fruit and veg.

Outside the paths are still weedy because I think I over diluted the weed killer as it hasn't worked, even the nettles are thriving. I've a few beds to finish preparing but my two biggest ones are for my potatoes on a no dig regime. That just leaves things like beans, onions, leeks, sweetcorn, tall peas, courgette and squash to find homes for as I'm only growing what we eat.

Indoors is a totally different matter. I've already planted mangetout, Hurst greenshaft peas, dwarf beans, kohl rabi, celery, lettuce and salad leaves, plenty of basil, rocket, carrots, sweet potatoes, early potatoes, sweetcorn, beetroot, fennel, snacking sweet peppers, chillies, and cucumbers. The tomatoes, aubergines, and melons are still in their pots but growing ok.

I don't grow masses of any one thing at a time, toms, peppers, being the exception but I like to keep sowing little and often over the summer. the problem is I forget to keep sowing or I forget to grow things (brassicas) for the winter - must be my age!!!

-taff

zafiro1984 wrote: »

I don't grow masses of any one thing at a time, toms, peppers, being the exception but I like to keep sowing little and often over the summer. the problem is I forget to keep sowing or I forget to grow things (brassicas) for the winter - must be my age!!!

Snap. If only there was a loud hailer with someone at the other end exhorting me to sow for winter when it's time to do so....

unrecordings

that reminds me to get my kale started...
been very rainy here, so i'm having a break from the garden