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Have I left it too late for Toms?

  • 24-06-2013 10:27pm
    #1
    Sgt Pepper 64
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    Ive some lovely tomato plants which I potted up late.
    Theres no fruit or even flowers yet, and they are only about a foot high, its gardeners delight varity

    Am I going to get fruit or did I leave it too late?
    They are in a plastic greenhouse


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  • #2
    redser7
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    You should try. Toms can ripen into November. Trick would be to limit the number of trusses. Hard to say how many, it depends on how the plant does. Maybe 3 or 4? Anyway, you can always make chutney from green toms.


  • #3
    Supercell
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    My gardeners delight in the garden is only about a foot high too, but has some flowers on them (the spring was too cold to plant them out until the beginning of June).The ones in pots are flying - better soil probably.
    I'd say in a plastic greenhouse with plenty of watering and feeding you should be OK.
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  • #4
    Oldtree
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    same here due to the lateness of putting them into the polyt late due to late frosts, (gardeners delight mainly plus a few large tomatoes). Starting to grow now that i've put them into bigger pots. I intend to only allow 3 trusses, if they get that far. In general the 3 trusses will continue to produce flowers. I was late last year too. I left the fruit on the plants as long as possible, and removed them all at the first sign of frost. I then put the unripe fruit in a brown paper bag with a very ripe banana on a south facing window sill and they all ripened within a few weeks (check daily as when the ripen they need to be removed from bag immediatly or will go soft very quickly).


  • #5
    genuine leather
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭genuine leather


    redser7 wrote: »
    You should try. Toms can ripen into November. Trick would be to limit the number of trusses. Hard to say how many, it depends on how the plant does. Maybe 3 or 4? Anyway, you can always make chutney from green toms.

    +1...potted on 9 red cherry today into 9-12 litre pots,about 30 in high,and will harvest toms i expect about 3rd-4th week in aug. I vary sowings so i dont get a glut of toms all at the same time, green tomato chutney is the way to go at end of season,fab, i use derina allens recipe.


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