Growing tomatoes

Nobbie1967

Looks like a bit of a cold night tonight, so I’ve brought my tomatoes into the utility room overnight to avoid any check to growth. Regretting planting out the courgettes up at the allotment this morning.It’s always a bit colder there as it’s out of town

Dustyevsky

Nobbie1967 said:

 Regretting planting out the courgettes up at the allotment this morning.It’s always a bit colder there as it’s out of town

I planted two in the manure heap last week. We're at 500' in the sticks. They've been all right so far, and I'm hoping they've hardened up . If the worst happens, there's 3 more, a week younger, ready to step in.

RobM99

6°C overnight and all mine survived, even the tiny ones. Happy with that!

RobM99

Right! So far I have....

Sungold
Black Opal
Saint Pierre
Oxheart Stripe
Costoluto Fiorientino
Gardeners Delight
Gigantomo
Honeycomb.

-taff

I have

Piget Willies French Black

Roma

Two cherries of some description...

The slugs/snails are eating my tomatoes in a surprise departure from the norm....

Nobbie1967

This has gone very quiet. I planted all mine out into the greenhouse about 3 weeks ago. They had got a bit leggy, so I buried them all a good 6” deeper than they were in the pots as they always run out of space at the top of the greenhouse.

I’ve been busy so done nothing to them except an occasional soaking, but when I did that yesterday they started to fall over so spent an hour today staking them and removing all the side shoots. The Sungold are the first to flower as usual with some onto their second truss already. The first sowing of Gardener's delight are growing very vigorously and seem to want to turn into a bush rather than a corden. Brandywine and the purple cherry both looking healthy.

How are everyone else’s doing?

RobM99

Every year I label them up. Every year the label stealing fairy calls! I'll know when they fruit!

-taff

Mine are all in their pots and waiting to get bigger before I stake them, and I have a tray of six unknowns...Can't take a phoo that isn't blurry, waiting on a new phone...

Dustyevsky

I have some in big pots in the tunnel, 'cos I'm still moving earth around in there this summer. One of them, Moskvich, has a fruit about 4 cm in diameter. Some others might have the beginnings of fruit. All plants have been grown at the base of a south-facing wall for the past month.

RobM99

Some are flowering already - have some that are barely an inch tall. Plan is - a longer fruiting season!