Comments on: Growing Tomatoes. Week 11. http://tomatolover.com/growing-tomatoes-week-11/ Learning to Grow Tomatoes Thu, 17 May 2012 16:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sally http://tomatolover.com/growing-tomatoes-week-11/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Sally Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:42:11 +0000 http://tomatolover.com/?p=828#comment-115 Hello, Thank you for getting in touch. I have taken a look at your photos. The bucket may only have cost $1.50 but it looks very impressive ! I will keep visiting to see how they grow and what they look like when ripe with tomatoes. It's an ingenious idea. Hello,
Thank you for getting in touch. I have taken a look at your photos. The bucket may only have cost $1.50 but it looks very impressive ! I will keep visiting to see how they grow and what they look like when ripe with tomatoes. It’s an ingenious idea.

]]> By: Gravity Gardener http://tomatolover.com/growing-tomatoes-week-11/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Gravity Gardener Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:36:00 +0000 http://tomatolover.com/?p=828#comment-114 Container or bucket gardens are pretty easy to get started with. Your tomatoes look like they are doing well. Nice Pics. I created an upside down bucket planter within 10 minutes. It only cost be a $1.50 and is working nicely. You can take a look at my step by step pictures if interested. http://gravitygarden.com/bucketgarden/?p=351 Gravity Gardener..  Container or bucket gardens are pretty easy to get started with.

Your tomatoes look like they are doing well. Nice Pics.

I created an upside down bucket planter within 10 minutes.

It only cost be a $1.50 and is working nicely. You can take a look at my step by step pictures if interested.

http://gravitygarden.com/bucketgarden/?p=351

Gravity Gardener.. 

]]> By: Sally http://tomatolover.com/growing-tomatoes-week-11/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Sally Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:03:41 +0000 http://tomatolover.com/?p=828#comment-102 Hello Nick, It's great to have an update. Great to hear the Easter seeds worked out. It seems a long time ago now ! I hadn't thought to put 3 seeds in a peat pellet but that's an efficient way of using them so I 've made a note to try that next year. I find the 'when to feed' confusing. I think the principle is that the food contains potassium/potash which helps the fruit form so until there is some set it doesn't do anything. I am sure your flowers will come . On my own grown plants the ones I have are on the Tumbler I planted on 16 March so a good while before Easter. I love that you have got some extra plants from the self seeding. No peat pellets, no cosseting indoors and they still come through. Find that comforting ! Thanks for the update and let me know how the planned and unplanned planting continues ! Hello Nick,
It’s great to have an update. Great to hear the Easter seeds worked out. It seems a long time ago now ! I hadn’t thought to put 3 seeds in a peat pellet but that’s an efficient way of using them so I ‘ve made a note to try that next year.
I find the ‘when to feed’ confusing. I think the principle is that the food contains potassium/potash which helps the fruit form so until there is some set it doesn’t do anything. I am sure your flowers will come . On my own grown plants the ones I have are on the Tumbler I planted on 16 March so a good while before Easter.
I love that you have got some extra plants from the self seeding. No peat pellets, no cosseting indoors and they still come through. Find that comforting !
Thanks for the update and let me know how the planned and unplanned planting continues !

]]> By: Nick Elliott http://tomatolover.com/growing-tomatoes-week-11/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Nick Elliott Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:57:03 +0000 http://tomatolover.com/?p=828#comment-100 Hello again Sally, Time for an update! The seeds I sowed at Easter all appear to be doing very well, like you I used peat pellets - 3 seeds per pellet in my case which seemed to work just fine. I chose 3 varieties; Gardener's Delight, Alicante and Marmande and ended up with over 20 plants from 8 peat pellets, too many, so I decided to keep 3 of each and found good homes for the rest. Last weekend I planted them out so you were spot on with your 7-8 weeks from seed. Bit worried as I fed them at the time and have since discovered 'no feeding at least until the first flowers' and none of my plants have flowers at the moment but they seem OK to me. I live in hope of flowers..... P.S. I've got some tomato plants growing in one of my flower beds, self-sown from when I dug in some compost from my compost bin. I'm going to leave them be, bless' em, and if we have a really long hot summer, who knows? Hello again Sally,

Time for an update! The seeds I sowed at Easter all appear to be doing very well, like you I used peat pellets – 3 seeds per pellet in my case which seemed to work just fine.

I chose 3 varieties; Gardener’s Delight, Alicante and Marmande and ended up with over 20 plants from 8 peat pellets, too many, so I decided to keep 3 of each and found good homes for the rest.

Last weekend I planted them out so you were spot on with your 7-8 weeks from seed. Bit worried as I fed them at the time and have since discovered ‘no feeding at least until the first flowers’ and none of my plants have flowers at the moment but they seem OK to me.

I live in hope of flowers…..

P.S. I’ve got some tomato plants growing in one of my flower beds, self-sown from when I dug in some compost from my compost bin. I’m going to leave them be, bless’ em, and if we have a really long hot summer, who knows?

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