How many toms do you squeeze in the greenhouse?

**elsie-scot** · 21-03-2011, 07:20 PM

No answer to that question, but looking to replace old glass GH with child safer version and searched the question "what size GH to I need" and found one article that said you only need 3 tomato plants in one growbag for a family!

We had 15 plants for two of us last year.

Don't you need to be careful not to overcrowd as this can cause disease?

**Bigmallly** · 21-03-2011, 07:34 PM

Last year I had 12 in flower buckets just down one side.. GH size 8x6.

**Florence Fennel** · 21-03-2011, 07:41 PM

I don't have a greenhouse

but grew nearly 40 plants outside in buckets. It was too many, so only half that amount this year. You must certainly have squeezed them in!

**PAULW** · 21-03-2011, 08:03 PM

21 in a 6x8 greenhouse, 6 in the 6x2 and about a dozen outside plenty of chutney and pasta sauce

**Storming Norman** · 21-03-2011, 08:12 PM

I've got a 6' x6' and usually have 10/12 toms and two cues.

I had 15 toms one year and got botrytis.

Don't crowd them in. A lot depends on how much leaf pruning etc you do to keep in their space.

Sungold seem to take less width in my experience and I stopped growing many beefsteaks as they take up too much precious space for their results.

if you have too many watering becomes really challenging.

**taff** · 21-03-2011, 08:19 PM

I had 14 in there last year, a 6X6 greenhouse, and a row of 4 cucs along the back. This year I'm scratching the cucs, they can go in the tunnel, and I'll put 6 along each side, and two at the back, or scratch the two at the back in favour of peppers and chillis.
14 was ok, but they were all heirloom varieties that went a bit mental once the stem had forked. I couldn't see among the stems well enough to pinch out properly, so 12 it is this year.
Outside however.....I managed 24 in an 9 x 4 bed

**VirginVegGrower** · 21-03-2011, 09:09 PM

I nearly didn't post this through sheer embarrassment but it seems I was not alone. 21 plants, three to a growbag and seven trays in a 10x7 with cukes on the bench and peppers;also a melon - NEVER AGAIN. Except my windowsills and benches are already full...arrgh!

**Potstubsdustbins** · 21-03-2011, 09:30 PM

Last year was my first year with a 8` x 6` and I thought I was over the top at 8 down one side. I ended up with some sort of catapillar on mine and they managed to travel the lenght of the row before I spotted them.

Colin

**binley100** · 21-03-2011, 09:40 PM

I had twelve toms, six aubergines and a load of chillies and peppers in a 8x6 gh.......just kept it well ventilated and the dog out.......

**coreopsis** · 21-03-2011, 09:45 PM

Well then,looks like I don't stick out too much

**VirginVegGrower** · 21-03-2011, 10:07 PM

Originally posted by coreopsis View Post

Well then,looks like I don't stick out too much

I guess not

**fiskies** · 21-03-2011, 11:54 PM

crikey reading this thread has made me realise the three i've planned to put in on one side of my blow away is perhaps being a little tight, i've got plenty of seedlings coming along nicely so i'm now wondering if i can use a few more instead of wasting the weaker ones. my blow away pots are about the same size as a standard diy bucket about 30cm in diameter, will this be large enough to fit two plants instead of my planned one?

Please see left hand side if it helps, back is reserved for two cucumbers and aubergine and right is for all me chilli and peppers.
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Pots to the left were going to house just one plant each but if anyone tells me i could do two, then great

outside i've got three 45cm pots ready to have two plants of each variety

**Kristen** · 22-03-2011, 08:47 AM

Blimey! Either you lot get very light crops, or if yours crop like mine (using a method I would call "neglect"!) you eat / process vast amounts of Tomatoes?

My Greenhouse is 30' x 10' and I plant a single row of Toms 2' apart = 15 plants.

On that side of the greenhouse I also plant a row of Peppers & Aubergines, and then a row of Melons against the glass.

The other side has Sweetcorn and other crops.

**Bren In Pots** · 22-03-2011, 08:54 AM

Mines a 8x6 and I grow 5 toms down the left hand side then one in the middle at the back with a cucumber in the far right corner. My chillis and sweet peppers are on staging on the remaining 3/4 on the right hand side.

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