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Tomato trouble
Ali67
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My outdoor tomatoes, after a healthy start, now have wilting and yellow lower leaves, and the flowers are not developing into fruit. Any ideas what is wrong, and what I can do to remedy this?
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No idea how to remedy it but I may have the same problem.....I'm just waiting to see if the flowers develop fruit now.
What variety are they?
They could be hungry. Outside plants need feeding and watering just like ones in greenhouses.
I've not fed mine yet as I thought you were meant to feed them when they git their first truss of tomatoes? I have watered them daily, more if necessary, I've been checking them twice daily. None of my flowers have dropped though so I'm hoping they are just a bit slow ??
Don't feed tomatoes until they've set the first truss of fruit.
I think it's just a matter of patience
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My thinking is, and as a relative newbie I may be wrong, that because it is obviously cooler outside than in the GH and they have weather conditions to contend with, that they will take a little longer than in the GH, even if they are outdoor toms??
Absolutely right OL
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow.....I'm getting it at last Dove
Unless we're blessed with a summer like 1976, I would say forget growing outdoor tomatoes here in the UK.....too much temperature fluctuation.
Leave it to the Italians.....I'll get me coat!
Hmmm
I've grown various varieties of tomatoes outdoors in this garden for the past three years.
2012, loads of tomatoes, very few ripened on the vine but almost all ripened indoors.
2013, even more tomatoes - all ripening on the vine - have only just finished using some that I roasted and froze
2014, plants flowering and all looking healthy - fingers very crossed ............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I could maybe bring them indoors and hang them in the back room where it's sunny?
I don't remember '76 David, I was only 3, but I did get a little sister in September that year and my mum always moans how awful it was being pregnant all summer!!