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For the 1st time in 10 weeks I take look round indoors and there’s not a single tomato plant to be seen.
No seeds germinating under compost in the propagator or green plants getting perilously leggy, waiting impatiently for the last frost date to pass.
This was tomato exodus week.
So where are they now?
Outside !
Either in a larger pot and so out day and night.
Or
Still Hardening off, awaiting transfer to a larger pot or grow bag and so overnight in the grow house (door rolled up) and outside in the day.
Summary Week 10 :
Plants: either transplanted to larger pots outside or in the grow house, waiting to be transferred to pots or grow bags.
Watering: Have watered a couple of times. The plants in smaller pots in the grow house have required more frequent watering due to drying out more quickly.
Flowers: Still only on two plants, the two I bought ! The Cream Sausage and Darby Stripe. In the past couple of days, however, there are signs that the Tumbler sown on the 16th March maybe about to flower ! There will be special flowering fanfare if this turns out to be the case.
Feeding: None to date as no fruit set yet.
And how are other tomato growers getting on ?
In Mississippi, where it looks much sunnier than here, Hill Country of Monroe County is experimenting with growing ornamentals and vegetables in the same containers. Tomatoes have been twinned with begonias. There are also lots of great ideas for recycling different kinds of containers as pots.
And then up to Canada, where in Ontario at Urban Veggie Garden even more unusual containers are being tried out for the 1st time. Upside down hanging containers are being trialled to grow Black Cherry, Black Zebra and Chocolate Stripe.
Back to the UK and My Garden Diary in East Anglia is growing tomatoes both in the greenhouse and outdoors. Varieties include Gardeners Delight, Alicante, Marmande, Roma, Tigerella and a Black Cherry variety.
And from The London Vegetable Garden details growing tomatoes on a balcony and how to welcome them as house plants!
It’s fascinating to see all the different approaches to growing tomatoes.
