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Tomatoes
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That's my question
In London. Keen but lazy.
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because if you don't, you'll end up with a sprawling tangled mess of stems and leaves all over the place and not many tomatoes.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
This will provide the answer
http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-train-cordon-tomatoes/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks p& d. I was puzzled because I assumed that the flowering shoot came out of the axil and I would be pinching it out.
No, for cordon toms the fruit truss's appears from the main stem.
If you grow basket toms, then they are called determinate varieties and they produce fruiting stems all over the place and generally get to no more than 3-4ft max
Indeterminate varieties (where you pinch out the side shoots) will grow 10ft+ if allowed, but it's usual to pinch out the growing tip of the plant after 5-6 trusses of fruit have formed so as to give them time to ripen before the frosts start
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Thanks Pete. I found some seeds left in an old packet and, to my surprise, they germinated. I feel reasonably confident now
Great stuff! Anything you're not sure about, always ask here, plenty of helpful and knowledgeable folk here - and me
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.