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To avoid split tomatoes ...

DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
in Fruit & veg
Heavy rain after a dry period can result in the skins of outdoor tomatoes splitting. 

Today I’ve picked all of mine that are nearly ripe ... they can finish indoors ... and I’ll do that every day for the next little while ... hopefully that’ll avoid the skins splitting when the promised deluge comes ...  ⛈ 

Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • PlashingPlashing Posts: 328
    Send some of the rain over here we haven't had a drop yet just outside of Lincoln,I am fed up with carrying watering cans full too water my beans,autumn fruiting rasps.We have had very little rain here since the middle of June,
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We had a five minute downpour this morning ... but that was all ... so far ...

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Not a drop of rain here all week. Lots of hot sticky nights though.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We had a mist you could breathe, nothing else
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    Torrential rain over the last 2 days, nothing today. Just enough rain that I feel like my pots might be watered for me, whilst knowing I'll probably still have to be the strange person using a hosepipe in the rain....  :#
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Same here, virtually nothing for weeks.
    I've noticed my sungold from the GH are splitting some time after being picked and while sitting in a bowl in the kitchen, which is rather odd.  I think I'll try collecting them just before they are fully ripe to see if that helps.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    Sungold does that no matter what you do. It's the worst variety for splitting.
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