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    outdoor success with cukes & toms?

    Im quickly running out of space in the greenhouse and still have about 9 beefsteaks to be planted out as they are just developing their flowers now, so im thinking of doing 1/2 inside and the other half in a sheltered spot.

    Also thinking of moving out the red robins and directly planting them on my other plot, though not sure how they'll fare :s.

    I have 2 marketmore cukes outside producing cukes now and another one in the gh romping away like crazy.

    also thinking of removing one of my Gardners delight and just putting it in a sheltered spot outside, even with hardening off, will it disturb it too much, it has fruit set....

    anyone had much success with tomatoes directly planted out?
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    My first tom this year (picked earlier this week) was from a Tumbler in a hanging basket on a south facing wall. Plenty of toms in the GH but none ripe yet.

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    • #3
      I have Marketmore cucs outside doing well.. one with a nice big cuc nearly ready for picking...
      I have a number of tom plants outside too, up against a south facing wall... All doing fine so far and some with fruit set..
      Even in last year's disaster of a summer, I got ripe toms from 3 Totem plants grown outside...
      Hopefully this summer will be better
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      • #4
        This is my first year trying toms planted outside. Mainly because I have no room in my greenhouse ! It's a case of doing and seeing as far as I'm concerned, if I get fruit from them then all well and good.
        Hope it goes well for you!

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        • #5
          Tomatoes outside at home have worked well, but they tend to get blight too quickly at the allotment. I've never had any success with cucumbers outside, but I suspect that's my fault rather than the cucs. They're doing quite nicely in the greenhouse this year

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          • #6
            I've got my 4 spare toms and 2 cucs outside they seem to be doing OK just a bit behind those in the GH border.
            Location....East Midlands.

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            • #7
              Due to my TOTAL inability to throw ANY seedling away, I planted more than TWENTY various "spare" tomato plants into any available space on the plot last week. I don't hold out much hope for much of a crop compared to the monsters in the green houses, but I have to give them a chance to fulfill their Tomato Destiny''...
              When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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