I have been removing leaves that have no flower buds on for a few weeks now, day before yesterday I took the largest of the fruit off the plant because despite tying the stems to bamboo canes they looked like they were struggling! Now my tom plants have smaller fruit and more or less no leaves (and I've pinched out the tops too) still no sign of ripening!! Oh and I have some plants inside my unshaded greenhouse and some in my veg patch outside - both exactly the same! So very slooooooooow!!!
Ok that's interesting! Will post a pic later - I'm amazed how big some of these toms are! I think the variety is called 'Inca'. Fingers crossed we get some juicy red tomatos very soon!
I am in south Cheshire . I am growing gardeners delight toms in pots against the south facing wall of our house. They do benefit from the heat the wall retains in the day.
Mine seem to have done very well this year. There are a lot more to come.
Totally agree ... absolutely no need to bring tomatoes indoors for ripening until the end of the season when night time temperatures are regularly below 10C
It's only August!
Also, we're not clear whether people are talking about tomatoes in their greenhouses or outdoors ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've been harvesting the 'sun' series (sungold, suncherry, sunpeach, sunlemon, sunchocola) and Gardener's ecstasy for a few weeks from my cold GH in Leics but only have one of my larger fruited types ripen, a Cuor di bue. As already said, plenty of time left though.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Thanks for the input folks. Just to clear up a few points raised, the tomatoes I am talking about are in a greenhouse, though I have sun gold both in the greenhouse and outside against a wall, I am getting small amounts of fruit from both of them and have been for about three weeks, the others are producing the odd ripened fruit occasionally. I have been removing leaves though only up to the first truss as I do every year which seems to work ok usually, as has been pointed out, letting a bit more light and air in the greenhouse. As BobThegardener says there is still time but I am fed up with tasteless supermarket toms and want some proper tomatoe flavour!!!
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Same problem here in Essex, no sign of toms ripening. Other veg also progessing slower than in previous years, especially squash.
I have been removing leaves that have no flower buds on for a few weeks now, day before yesterday I took the largest of the fruit off the plant because despite tying the stems to bamboo canes they looked like they were struggling! Now my tom plants have smaller fruit and more or less no leaves (and I've pinched out the tops too) still no sign of ripening!! Oh and I have some plants inside my unshaded greenhouse and some in my veg patch outside - both exactly the same! So very slooooooooow!!!
Ok that's interesting! Will post a pic later - I'm amazed how big some of these toms are! I think the variety is called 'Inca'. Fingers crossed we get some juicy red tomatos very soon!
I am in south Cheshire . I am growing gardeners delight toms in pots against the south facing wall of our house. They do benefit from the heat the wall retains in the day.
Mine seem to have done very well this year. There are a lot more to come.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Totally agree ... absolutely no need to bring tomatoes indoors for ripening until the end of the season when night time temperatures are regularly below 10C
It's only August!
Also, we're not clear whether people are talking about tomatoes in their greenhouses or outdoors ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've been harvesting the 'sun' series (sungold, suncherry, sunpeach, sunlemon, sunchocola) and Gardener's ecstasy for a few weeks from my cold GH in Leics but only have one of my larger fruited types ripen, a Cuor di bue. As already said, plenty of time left though.
Thanks for the input folks. Just to clear up a few points raised, the tomatoes I am talking about are in a greenhouse, though I have sun gold both in the greenhouse and outside against a wall, I am getting small amounts of fruit from both of them and have been for about three weeks, the others are producing the odd ripened fruit occasionally. I have been removing leaves though only up to the first truss as I do every year which seems to work ok usually, as has been pointed out, letting a bit more light and air in the greenhouse. As BobThegardener says there is still time but I am fed up with tasteless supermarket toms and want some proper tomatoe flavour!!!
Nothing like home grown are there, indoors or out.