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Toms
CLER
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When should I plant out my gardeners delight tom plants into open ground? I do not have a green house to grow them in.
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When there is no danger of frost and night time temps are in double figures. Guess you know that they need hardening off beforehand, out in the day and inside at night, and then outside all the time in a sheltered postion.
Depending where you are I would say you are looking at the end of May.
Mine are already out but I'm growing Black Russian but they are able to withstand colder temperatures. I put them out last week there doing fine so far
Cler, way too early as yet. If you want them outside then get a stout box cardboard will do put it against a wall and put your potted on plants in there away from cold wind and with some cover from rain, a bit of blanket over the lot at night or even news paper will do and plant out in June. Even then a few sticks around them with a wrap of bubble wrap round the sticks will help. It is rapidly falling temperatures and cold winds that kill outside tomato's.
Frank.
Toms will cope outdoors in overnight temps down to the higher single figures. What they won't do is develop as quickly. They need overnight temps in at least the mid-teens to develop at an optimum rate.