Hi Lorraine again...What a disaster There I was saying cauli and broccoli doing well then a attack of green furry caterpillars, they ate the lot so sad and disappointed where did I go wrong. Toms are now growing on plants after the leaves all went yellow and curled up so I stripped leaves and got toms how strange.all still green though!!!What next will they ever ripen? Next job when should i cut lavender back that is taking over the garden? Happy gardening.
I've just lost 5 bush Marmande and potentially about to lose the other 8 to blight (decimated in 24 hours). No loss really as only the lowest trusses were fruiting and had no chance to ripen. However, 9 Shirleys are doing well, 6 outside bearing large (green) fruit and 3 in the greenhouse just beginning to redden. Notes to self for next year: sow indoors earlier, pot up earlier in greenhouse, space them out to prevent spore travel, spray with copper fungicide, move abroad; awful year again wasn't it!?
I have grown my first ever crop of tomatoes very successfully, but need to ripen them. They are in a draw with a ripe banana, and I know this sounds stupid, but no-one says whether to peel it or not. Help please.
My tomato plants were all lovely and healthy into August and plenty of ruit trusses and then we had 3 weeks of poor weather and rain etc - all the tomatoe plants went brown and seemed to be dying. I think it must be blight and didn't know - I took off all the tomatoes and tried to ripen them by putting out in what ever sunshine we had or keeping in a bowl in warm kitchen - most of them went rotten and had to be thrown away - I put everything including the plants into my compost bin... now I've read that all blighted plants should have been destroyed and put out with rubbish - help what shall I do about my compost bin its 3/4 full and breaking down nicely I thought - now it seems its infected with blight???
I am growing some tomatoes for the first time. I have three plants in a long trough growing niely up a trelace. I had noticed that the bottom leaves had gone yellowish and heard that this meant to start feeding them. Which I did and they are recovering nicely and I now have some small fruits growing too. What I would like to no is what is the best food to give them. I have some wilkinsons own brand tomato food and I also have some miracle grow that can also be used on toms. However it has at least twice the amount of nutrients that the tom food has. Which am I best with please? Ben, Norfolk
you need a high potash feed,(that is high in potassium). I use tomatorite and wilkos own brand too. I got loads of fruits but am waiting in anticipation for them to ripen! I feed mine every wednesday but think you can do it more often... I read somewhere that too much feed can damage too, so that why i do it once a week. I have grown tomatoes a couple of yrs ago but didnt get much out of it because i didnt put much effort in. This year i caught the gardening bug and love it!
I was given two tom' plants by a friend so have no idea what variety they are and it's also the first time I have grown them. As I live in a flat they are in my bathroom and I have to say have done really well. It was only this weekend that I picked the fruit (they have only just recently ripened) and boy were they tasty! I don't seem to have had much bother with them, just the occasional feed and bug spray.
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Im going to try using one of these upside down planters this coming season - wondered if anyone else has had much success with them - I have read moxed reveiews - http://www.practicalhomeandgarden.com/how-to-make-your-own-upside-down-tomato-planter