I have found and bought this in a local store .not much difference in price and will be trying some next year. .the tomato plants are filling two sides of the greenhouse. The melons and cucs are spread along canes on the other..I'd be damaging the plants to put it on this year I think. However I've wondered about on the outside just for this year? I've started to get some fruits on each plant, but still a large abundance of non fruiting flowers in comparison .some large melons too.
Granma - what do you mean ' always 2 inches of water'? Do you mean they're permanently sitting in water? That isn't good for roots. You need good ventilation - especially in the heat there's been, and that allows pollinators to get in to the plants too. Perhaps your flowers just haven't been well enough pollinated. The hand/brush method is quite successful I believe, so it might be worth trying that.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ooh - you may well be right Lyn. I thought some were and some weren't, but I've probably got that wrong! I've certainly never had to do anything to mine, but I odn't grow any fancy ones - just the easiest types as I don't have time to spend. They have to get on with it
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Because of trouble with cats and blackbirds have to keep the door shut on the greenhouse, just the windows open , so can't rely on pollinators getting in so always hand pollinate.
I have a cat, I put a wire panel up at the door so he can’t get in there, I would think they’ve been far too hot with the doors closed recently. you don’t have to do anything to pollinate them, just a little shake, but you dont really need to. my runner beans are the same.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I just don't rely on them so most of my flowers have fruit. The greenhouse is shaded for half the day so is not too bad as far as heat goes, mind you @Pete8 says you need more heat than sun for ripening so mine should be over producing this year, but they are not. Still waiting for the first to ripen.😁
Mine are progressing as normal. Some reasonable trusses, but it's a different variety that was given to me by my daughters, so I don't know if it's normal for them or not. Keeping conditions steady will be more difficult this year in many areas, but we haven't had as much extreme heat here, so it's business as usual. They need watered as they're in a greenhouse, so the lack of usual rainfall here has made no difference.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I just don't rely on them so most of my flowers have fruit. The greenhouse is shaded for half the day so is not too bad as far as heat goes, mind you @Pete8 says you need more heat than sun for ripening so mine should be over producing this year, but they are not. Still waiting for the first to ripen.😁
It's true that toms require heat to ripen. The problem is that when temps reach the mid 30's the ripening process dramatically slows down or stops entirely. It's often around 40c in my g/h over the last few weeks and my toms are ripening very slowly. There's an article here that explains
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However I've wondered about on the outside just for this year?
I've started to get some fruits on each plant, but still a large abundance of non fruiting flowers in comparison .some large melons too.
Do you mean they're permanently sitting in water? That isn't good for roots.
You need good ventilation - especially in the heat there's been, and that allows pollinators to get in to the plants too. Perhaps your flowers just haven't been well enough pollinated.
The hand/brush method is quite successful I believe, so it might be worth trying that.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
you don’t have to do anything to pollinate them, just a little shake, but you dont really need to.
my runner beans are the same.
Keeping conditions steady will be more difficult this year in many areas, but we haven't had as much extreme heat here, so it's business as usual. They need watered as they're in a greenhouse, so the lack of usual rainfall here has made no difference.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The problem is that when temps reach the mid 30's the ripening process dramatically slows down or stops entirely.
It's often around 40c in my g/h over the last few weeks and my toms are ripening very slowly.
There's an article here that explains
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.