My poor tumbling toms - Will they recover?

**Nicos** · 27-05-2009, 09:02 AM

I think it depends on how broken they are whether you cut them off- it's going to be difficult to prevent it happening again- so it might be a good idea to remove some of the vulnerable bits.

Thing is- you can pot up the pieces you cut off ( remove flowers and plant deeply) and get new plants, so it might not be so bad after all.
I think a new site might be a good idea though

**Incy** · 27-05-2009, 09:10 AM

Hi Nicos,
Thanks for the advice. It's the leaf branches that took a battering the sideshoots actually seem better off than the main plant so maybe I should try and get a few extras off some of them. Different site is not an option though. We have a large southfacing garden with a good size piece given over to my veg. but the hanging baskets cover every wall ( garage and house) as well as being on 3 custom made basket posts my OH kindly made for me.
I am attaching a pic of some of the baskets before the evil wind so you can see.

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**Nicos** · 27-05-2009, 09:40 AM

They look great!!!

..what a nice idea!

(..they'll need watering a fair bit a couple of times a day though when they get bigger and it it gets much hotter

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**Incy** · 27-05-2009, 09:47 AM

Watering would be a pleasure as it means we're getting a summer

As they are in the garden it's pretty easy to stay on top of watering them. It's a job the OH enjoys too. Best done with a glass of wine in the evening or coffee in the morning

**tamsin** · 27-05-2009, 01:11 PM

I would say they'll probably recover. They seem to side shoot like crazy so I'm sure they'll soon replace the lost leaves

**Incy** · 27-05-2009, 01:35 PM

Thanks Tamsin,
I hope you are right. Too sad to take an after pic still though.

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