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    Outdoor Toms Spacing?

    I've just dug over a small south-facing border next to the house and I'm thinking of putting some outdoor toms in, when the weather picks up.

    Its approx 3 ft by 3 ft.

    Would I get away with 2 rows of 3 in there?

    Thanks
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    Yes, just but you would need to keep pinching out the side shoots., What variety of tomato are you thinking of growing.

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    • #3
      I've planning on planting Red Alert.
      Sowing them indoors this week.
      Cheers

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      • #4
        Red alert are a bush tomato and though a compact plant I think you might struggle to get 6 good plants in that area.

        Think about putting 2 of them in morrisons buckets and 4 in the plot.

        Colin
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        • #5
          Outdoor tomatoes often/usually get blight. I don't bother now, just grow a few plants in the gh
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #6
            Okay - sweetcorn it is

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            • #7
              Is blight more prevalent in some areas than others? I ask because I have grown toms in hanging baskets for years and touch wood never had a problem.

              Colin
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              By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


              We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

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              • #8
                last year I grew some Ferline toms ........although the other toms near them got the blight the ferline didn't. Neither did my hanging basket toms get it.......
                Last edited by binley100; 31-03-2011, 09:44 PM.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Potstubsdustbins View Post
                  Is blight more prevalent in some areas than others?
                  Yes, it starts off in the west (Ireland, Devon) and spreads east and north through the summer. It needs wet leaves to take hold, so avoid wetting the leaves of your spuds & toms as much as you can, or grow them under cover.
                  My back garden is sheltered and nobody else nearby grows veg, but my lotty toms get (got) it every year
                  All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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