I’ve enjoyed this thread and it’s been reassuring as I don’t feed my tomatoes (or anything) during the growing season. My tomatoes are in soil beds in the greenhouse, I dig in some organic fertiliser or composted manure in early Spring but nothing else. I water about twice a week.
its the same approach for all my pots as well - water maybe twice a week and homemade liquid feed (Green alkanet) occasionally- but still plenty of flowers from my dahlias and other bedding.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Just curious. Are seeds from frozen tomatoes viable?
Possibly, they are very tough. There are tales of POWs growing tomato plants from the seeds collected from tinned tomatoes and I think those tins were sterilized in boiling water, even back in WW1.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I might save a couple of sungold that I have in the freezer and give them a go next year. Self seeders have been popping up all over the place this year but we didn't really have a winter.
@Fairygirl Thanks for the tip. I think I do pamper my plants a bit too much when it comes to feeding.. but when it comes to watering I have been struggling a bit to keep up with the recent hot weather.. I water them every 3 days or so.. but given I plant some of my tomatoes in rather small pots they probably need watering every other day.. but then maybe keeping them under watered will also produce the ‘stressful’ environment..?
Do you water them deeply each time - as in until water starts to seep from the drainage hole?
That’s a lot of work! Haha.. I don’t mind when I’m on leave but it’s not possible when Im working.. I often work from 7am to 9 at night.. and by the time I got back I just want a shower and sleep.. as much as I love my plants
I watered them when they wilted which was twice a day. They are standing on old tea trays - two to a tray- and I would water the pot until the tray filled up. I only have five in pots and two in the ground - well one and a half as a four-legged fiend jumped over the fence onto one of them.
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its the same approach for all my pots as well - water maybe twice a week and homemade liquid feed (Green alkanet) occasionally- but still plenty of flowers from my dahlias and other bedding.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Possibly, they are very tough. There are tales of POWs growing tomato plants from the seeds collected from tinned tomatoes and I think those tins were sterilized in boiling water, even back in WW1.
Self seeders have been popping up all over the place this year but we didn't really have a winter.