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  • #1

    Tomato probs

    Hi I hope you can help
    I am a newish gardener, second year with my greenhouse, which is now fully functioning.
    I have shuttering with top soil around the bottom.
    I bought tomoto plants and planted straight into the soil, they wilted and died. So I then bought a tomato grow bag and new plants, they have also wilted and died.
    I water daily.... any idea where i am going wrong, everything else is thriving ( although my cucumber plant looks dodgy too!)
    Karen 🤔
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    Quite simply - it is too cold for tomatoes, even in the greenhouse. They really don't like temperatures under 10C.

    Last night was at or below freezing in most places

    Cucumbers also like more warmth.
    Last edited by Thelma Sanders; 27-04-2017, 07:14 PM.

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    • #3
      Hi Karen and welcome! Where do you live? Is it an unheated greenhouse?

      If you're anywhere in the UK like most of the members here, and your greenhouse isn't heated, then it's probably cold nights that have killed them. Tomatoes and cucumbers don't like being cold and can't tolerate frost at all. So you would need to keep them in pots somewhere warm until temperatures get reliably warmer. For many places that would be the middle to the end of May.

      At this time of year you could put the pots out in the greenhouse on warm days and take them in when cold nights are forecast.

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      • #4
        Another problem could be excess watering, you say you are watering everyday if the compost is to wet small plants become susceptible to root rot.
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        • #5
          Probably over watering, a trained finger in detecting compost wetness is worth developing.
          Jimmy
          Expect the worst in life and you will probably have under estimated!

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          • #6
            You can test your compost for water by lightly pressing a bit of newspaper onto the compost and if it shows damp don't water, though I think it could be the cold
            it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.

            Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbers

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