Gardeners Delight

**veggiechicken** · 04-05-2015, 10:26 PM

Hi Cameron and welcome

Do you have anywhere to plant it outside - a greenhouse perhaps?
Keeping it on a windowsill is not ideal as tomato plants need a lot of light from all directions or they grow tall and straggly.
You can take out the top of the plant which may encourage it to form more sideshoots but the best thing to do is put it outside, undercover.

**C_James_89** · 04-05-2015, 10:41 PM

Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post

Hi Cameron and welcome

Do you have anywhere to plant it outside - a greenhouse perhaps?
Keeping it on a windowsill is not ideal as tomato plants need a lot of light from all directions or they grow tall and straggly.
You can take out the top of the plant which may encourage it to form more sideshoots but the best thing to do is put it outside, undercover.

Hello thank you for replying

i dont have any where to plant it as i live in a flat with no garden my window sills recive alot of light from sunrise to sunset so if i cut the top branches down a bit that will be ok ? im just scared of killing it the plant is very very healthy and green with fruit forming so i think its getting enough light

**Urban** · 04-05-2015, 10:46 PM

Yeh you can cut off the top (might be best to snap it off) above the trusses, you probably won't get any more trusses though, but should result in the trusses you have forming bigger tomatoes

**veggiechicken** · 04-05-2015, 10:50 PM

Can you put a photo up for us to see please?
Do you know that if you take off the top, or some of the sideshoots (we call them armpits

) you can put them in water and they will grow roots. Then you can pot them up and have another tomato plant for free

**Bill HH** · 05-05-2015, 10:04 AM

What you should have done is grow a shorter type designed for growing in a basket, you will get tons of cherry type toms off a plant that only grows a couple of feet high. Its not to late to do it now. A gardeners delight will grow to 8 or 9 feet if left unchecked.

**Scoot** · 05-05-2015, 10:24 AM

Trusses already? My tomatoes are still only about 5 inches high.

How long you been growing it?

**bario1** · 05-05-2015, 10:56 AM

My toms are about 6" high and I noticed some flowers forming on one yesterday!

**Scarlet** · 05-05-2015, 11:19 AM

Originally posted by Scoot View Post

Trusses already? My tomatoes are still only about 5 inches high.

How long you been growing it?

You are not on your own!

**Jungle Jane** · 05-05-2015, 12:22 PM

I always cut the tops off my tomato plants once they have 5/6 trusses,it doesn't do any harm. It stops the plant growing taller,then the plants energy can concentrate on the tomatoes & ripening. I would cut yours just above the trusses as said. Good idea to put the cutting in water,it will start rooting & you'll have another plant that you could also cut back after 1 or 2 trusses. As cordon varieties like gardeners delight are too tall for the area,try a bush variety like tumbler?

**C_James_89** · 05-05-2015, 10:29 PM

Thank you all for the replys. I am a novice at this first time growing anything! i just got the gardeners delight pot from wilkos i sowed them late feb early march i dont know alot about types of tomato plants. what ones would you recommended for compact window sill ones

Cameron

**Peppermint** · 06-05-2015, 05:42 AM

I grew Red Robin a couple of years running and got very decent crops from them. I tried sowing what was left in the seed packet this year but none of them germinated. The one's I grew were in a potting shed with only a polycarbonate roof for light as I didn't have my polytunnel then.

The are compact little plants which seem to be suited to window growing. I plan to get more next year as they seem to be ideal for filling in small spaces.

**bario1** · 06-05-2015, 05:57 AM

Micro Tom are a great windowsill variety.

**Penellype** · 06-05-2015, 11:43 AM

I'm experimenting with Balconi Red and Balconi Yellow this year. Plenty of flowers and the odd tiny fruit forming from these 4 plants on an east facing windowsill:

This photo was taken a few days ago, so the flowers are a bit more visible now. Balconi Yellow on the left and Red on the right (2 of each).

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**Lumpy** · 06-05-2015, 01:19 PM

Last few years I have grown plain old fashioned Tumbling Tom in the wall baskets out front. 2 to each basket and if I'm lucky a few will make it into the kitchen. Mr Lump likes getting the 3 year old Grandson to pick a few so he can blame the fruitless plant on him while he chokes on a full to can't breathe anymore mouthful.

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