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Tomatoes

Mandy63Mandy63 Posts: 17
in Fruit & veg
Is it to early to put plant my tomatoes outside I’m in the south of England 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Get yourself a garden thermometer that measures the lowest temperature each night ... last night ours was 7.7C ... not warm enough here to put them out ... it needs to be consistently above 10C, preferably mid teens. 

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





  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Simple answer no, another 3 weeks maybe
  • Pam100Pam100 Posts: 85
    I was going to ask the same question as my maskokta plants are starting to flower now and I wanted to transplant them into their final pot but I don’t have room inside for the pots!!  Could they be left out in a greenhouse overnight (not a glass one, a small plastic one). Thanks
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    edited May 2021
    I'm in the channel islands further south than most (except for our French/Belgian  friends on here) and my Greenhouse MIN/Max thermometer hasn't gone past 9.5 yet and that's in the greenhouse.

    My tomato plants in the greenhouse are producing trusses now and I have my first cucumber at about 6" long, but outside no way just yet.

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    edited May 2021
    Pam100 said:
    I was going to ask the same question as my maskokta plants are starting to flower now and I wanted to transplant them into their final pot but I don’t have room inside for the pots!!  Could they be left out in a greenhouse overnight (not a glass one, a small plastic one). Thanks

    You need to harden them off first. Put them outside in a semi shaded spot during the day and then back in at night for a week then you should be able to stick them in your   "Greenhouse" as long as night time temperatures don't go below 5 degrees which they shouldn't do now hopefully, but its a very unusual year this year the season seems to be about 3 weeks behind the norm.

    If its a small plastic job make sure you ventilate during the day or they will roast if the full sun hits them in their when zipped up, but I wouldn't put them outside the Greenhouse until night time temperatures stay above 10 degrees.

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • Mandy63Mandy63 Posts: 17
    Thanks everyone they have been in my plastic green house day and night for a week now so will take them out in the day and pop them back in at night. I think I sowed them a little too early as they are getting a little too big for the green house 😂😂
  • Mandy63Mandy63 Posts: 17
    Sorry another question, I have a large Pot which has tulips bulbs in could I put my tomatoes in there with the bulbs? 
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    No best to take the bulbs out, put away to dry in a cool dark place, replace compost and plant. Toms are greedy feeders, like cucumbers,  so need new compost which will last about six weeks, at which time the tiny toms should be forming and that is when you give tomato feed in the water @Mandy63
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