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This is my first yr for veggies so apologies for newbie questions.
I'm pleased with potatoes (tasty) beans are coming along and garlic looks ok but I'm concerned re tomatoes.
The plants (plum tomatoes) are now big and bushy too bushy methinks the tallest is around 4' tall. Small yellow flowers for a few weeks now but no sign of fruit.
Anything I can do?
I'm pleased with potatoes (tasty) beans are coming along and garlic looks ok but I'm concerned re tomatoes.
The plants (plum tomatoes) are now big and bushy too bushy methinks the tallest is around 4' tall. Small yellow flowers for a few weeks now but no sign of fruit.
Anything I can do?
HumbleJim said:
Thanks, tomorite once a week.
This is fine, remember as they produce fruit to water consistently, not constantly, but consistently - this ensures the fruit don't split.My outside toms are just the same at the mo, flowers but nothing else. They will always come later outside. Under glass, however, fruits are now appearing.
Your tomatoes look fine, OP. You won't get fruit until surprisingly late in the season: August at the earliest. Every year, when June comes, I think summer is here and expect to be harvesting all kinds of stuff. But harvesting most crops doesn't start til,late summer....
Next time, grow some salad crops and some strawberries so you have plenty to cut and eat in early summer....
Next time, grow some salad crops and some strawberries so you have plenty to cut and eat in early summer....
HumbleJim said:
The plants (plum tomatoes) are now big and bushy too bushy methinks the tallest is around 4' tall.
They should have had sideshoots pinched out to develop a single stem off which trusses of tomatoes will form. I'd restrict the number of trusses now rather than try to train them. 5-6 per plant.Then again it is very early in the season, outdoors in the UK I wouldn't expect to be able to pick any for at least another month.
Shaolin said:
HumbleJim said:
The plants (plum tomatoes) are now big and bushy too bushy methinks the tallest is around 4' tall.
They should have had sideshoots pinched out to develop a single stem off which trusses of tomatoes will form. I'd restrict the number of trusses now rather than try to train them. 5-6 per plant.Then again it is very early in the season, outdoors in the UK I wouldn't expect to be able to pick any for at least another month.
Did you read the seed packet, it would have said if they were the type requiring removal of side shoots or not.
If they are, then you could tidy up with a pair of scissors, trying to leave any decent flower trusses.
It's all a waste of time, you will get blight and lose the lot just as you expect to start picking.
Oh the joys.............
If they are, then you could tidy up with a pair of scissors, trying to leave any decent flower trusses.
It's all a waste of time, you will get blight and lose the lot just as you expect to start picking.
Oh the joys.............
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