Hope you can get at least some toms off the other plants before they succumb. What a bugger eh.
Interesting to see what you say about the one by the door. I've got a new variety by the door in mine and it's particularly weedy looking - about half the height of all the other tomatoes including two that were started much later. Didn't think about the effect of a draft blowing in on it.
I have a Frankentom, it came from the very first flower on the plant which was huge, I believe they call it a Megabloom, it looks like 3 toms fused together.
My greenhouse is a bit of a disaster area this year. My tomato plants were put in the greenhouse too early and were caught by the cold so have turned blue. I am hoping they will recover in time. Some are worst than others. In desperation for shading, I put an old, blue, plastic tarp. over the whole of the roof and tied it down with baling twine. The tarp. was rolled up ready for the tip, holes in it, snails, etc. The last 2 days we have had extremely strong wind and rain down here in Cornwall so I was expecting to see my greenhouse sailing away over the banks into the fields yonder, but no! It is still there with tatty blue tarp intact! Some of the tomato plants have recovered their green colour and look quite perky now I have put them into their grown-up pots but some really do not look well. I planted them very deeply, up to the 4th joint, as they were really leggy. The cucumbers are sitting catching their breath after being potted on, not sure if I will get any fruit on them. Having lost my seedling gherkins I bought 2 plants from my local GC. They are now in the conservatory with the 2 aubergine plants I potted on a few days ago. Long Covid has a lot to answer for.
I have tended to use the greenhouse mostly to start off plants for the polytunnel, but have the resident raspberries - and 6 cucamelon plants using them for support. I am still growing on lupins, aquilegia, geum and ox-eye daisy from seed. 🌱🪴
Thanks. Fingers crossed, I am trying tomato Big Mama, Cocktail Crush and Mountain Magic, also cucumbers Diva and Mini Munch. I have finally given up on Gardeners Delight. it is the first time since acquiring my freebie greenhouse, found on Freecycle, that I have had such awful results, all my own fault.
So annoyed with myself. The whole garden is an overgrown jungle with 6ft rape plants growing everywhere, from some top soil I purchased.
I am always amazed at how resilient a lot of plants are in the way they recover from sometimes pretty awful treatment! Given some TLC.
25 years ago a friend who did not have a lot of money, gave me a very sickly camellia plant as a Goodbye present, she found it in the reduced corner of a GC, when I moved down here to the sticks. A member of staff told her he thought it had a virus, she decided she knew just who could make it better. It was bone dry, the leaves were dropping and yellow. I put it into a bucket of rainwater for several days, repotted it and stood it in a shady corner. I still have that camellia, it never fails to flower in Oct/Nov. and I have worked out it must be one of the sasanqua varieties. Not spectacular flowers, small, single, pale pink but greatly welcomed at that time of the year.
Some of my tomatoes in the polytunnel are not looking at all happy ... and I don't know why, due to my lack of experience. Does anyone know of a good site which shows and discusses the various tomato problems from over/under watering, lack of nutrients, too cold, too hot etc etc?! There seems to be SO many different tomato problems and I never know whether to be concerned or not. The many tomato questions that are asked on the forum are often met with 'that's normal - tomatoes do that - nothing to worry about'. But us novice tomato growers DO worry and we need a handy reference doctor so that we know what to do, if anything! 🤷🏼♀️ Not sure if this is allowed, but I have also posted in the polytunnel thread. 😊
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Interesting to see what you say about the one by the door. I've got a new variety by the door in mine and it's particularly weedy looking - about half the height of all the other tomatoes including two that were started much later. Didn't think about the effect of a draft blowing in on it.
My tomato plants were put in the greenhouse too early and were caught by the cold so have turned blue. I am hoping they will recover in time. Some are worst than others.
In desperation for shading, I put an old, blue, plastic tarp. over the whole of the roof and tied it down with baling twine. The tarp. was rolled up ready for the tip, holes in it, snails, etc. The last 2 days we have had extremely strong wind and rain down here in Cornwall so I was expecting to see my greenhouse sailing away over the banks into the fields yonder, but no! It is still there with tatty blue tarp intact!
Some of the tomato plants have recovered their green colour and look quite perky now I have put them into their grown-up pots but some really do not look well. I planted them very deeply, up to the 4th joint, as they were really leggy.
The cucumbers are sitting catching their breath after being potted on, not sure if I will get any fruit on them.
Having lost my seedling gherkins I bought 2 plants from my local GC. They are now in the conservatory with the 2 aubergine plants I potted on a few days ago.
Long Covid has a lot to answer for.
I'm sure your toms will recover in time as it warms up.
Good luck.
Fingers crossed, I am trying tomato Big Mama, Cocktail Crush and Mountain Magic, also cucumbers Diva and Mini Munch. I have finally given up on Gardeners Delight.
it is the first time since acquiring my freebie greenhouse, found on Freecycle, that I have had such awful results, all my own fault.
So annoyed with myself. The whole garden is an overgrown jungle with 6ft rape plants growing everywhere, from some top soil I purchased.
I am always amazed at how resilient a lot of plants are in the way they recover from sometimes pretty awful treatment! Given some TLC.
25 years ago a friend who did not have a lot of money, gave me a very sickly camellia plant as a Goodbye present, she found it in the reduced corner of a GC, when I moved down here to the sticks. A member of staff told her he thought it had a virus, she decided she knew just who could make it better.
It was bone dry, the leaves were dropping and yellow. I put it into a bucket of rainwater for several days, repotted it and stood it in a shady corner. I still have that camellia, it never fails to flower in Oct/Nov. and I have worked out it must be one of the sasanqua varieties. Not spectacular flowers, small, single, pale pink but greatly welcomed at that time of the year.
There seems to be SO many different tomato problems and I never know whether to be concerned or not. The many tomato questions that are asked on the forum are often met with 'that's normal - tomatoes do that - nothing to worry about'. But us novice tomato growers DO worry and we need a handy reference doctor so that we know what to do, if anything! 🤷🏼♀️
Not sure if this is allowed, but I have also posted in the polytunnel thread. 😊
https://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/threads/tomato-growing-thread-2022.129427/page-45