Too cold for outdoor tomatoes

**cilla** · 01-06-2015, 09:25 AM

I am waiting until the end of the week to plant mine so they are in the little plastic GH at the moment. The wind is not helping and they say it is going to get worst before Wednesday. Using the cold frame to protect my courgettes from the wind. It is cold.

**Guest** · 01-06-2015, 09:49 AM

Temps were good here until last week. We have had a couple of nights drop below 5 degrees

**Lumpy** · 01-06-2015, 10:10 AM

My basket toms are still in the porch and beginning to look quite desparate to go outside but like everyone else the weather is terrible.
They forecast warmer by the end of the week so I will put them out but keep the fleece handy.
My bush pumpkins (2 of them) and outdoor Q's are open to the elements when it is sunny and then covered with terracotta pots against the night, rain and wind. The poor courgettes are being wrapped in fleece.
I look like a complete maniac going backwards and forwards several times a day - would'nt be so bad if the plants were'nt all in the front garden.

**Jungle Jane** · 01-06-2015, 11:41 AM

I planted 8 of mine out,they'd been on the patio for a couple of weeks in a sheltered position,so the wind didn't take them flying & to harden them up. I planted them really deep so beside the extra root growth from the stem,it will help support the plant & add a bit of warmth,compared to the small pot. I brought some plants indoors & some are in the blow-away tent,I'm wondering where to plant them all. I just checked on the plants I planted out,no purple looking leaves (except one plant,on the bottom leaves,but I'l take them off if it starts to worry me?) no leaf curl. Our weather might be different,but where I am,if they're sheltered from getting blown over the temperatures ok for them.

**Scoot** · 01-06-2015, 11:41 AM

I've got 8 plants that are all ready to go into their final big pots but at the minute my little growhouse is full with all my other tomatoes in their final pots that I can't put outside yet because of the weather. Once the weather warms up, i'll be able to put the final 8 plants into their final pots and place them outside but as it is, they are still in very small pots and left in the growhouse until the weather warms up.

**chefgage** · 01-06-2015, 12:29 PM

Mine have been out for about 3 weeks now. They keep getting a battering in the wind but are doing ok.

**Valleyman** · 01-06-2015, 12:58 PM

I just have the 3 in hanging baskets out at the moment. The rest will go out next weekend when it looks like temps will go up, and hopefully stay up. Fingers crossed the hanging baskets will pull through.

**BUFFS** · 01-06-2015, 01:43 PM

it is colder this week than it was in feb and with a few exceptional days it has been like this since the end of march, they keep on about a heatwave of 30deg+ but show our area getting 14-15deg, I don't think I will be getting the deckchair out and outdoor toms would be dead by now if planted in the garden, it seems a UK heatwave really means London and its immediate surroundings....

**Scarlet** · 01-06-2015, 01:50 PM

My hanging baskets are littering my GHouse floor

it's much too cold for toms outside here in Wiltshire today and it's also blowing a gale! I'm thankful that I've only recently sown my beans. I really can't believe its June.

**muddled** · 01-06-2015, 02:08 PM

Originally posted by BUFFS View Post

it seems a UK heatwave really means London and its immediate surroundings....

Sadly, not yet it doesn't!

My outdoor toms are outdoors, but still in their pots in a very sheltered spot where they've been 'hardening off' for weeks now.
I did, in sheer desperation, put four plants out at the allotment. They're not dead....but they're not growing either. I suspect it'll be the wind that murders them eventually....it's blowing a hoolie out there today.

The bulk of my toms are in morrison flower buckets in the greenhouse. A few have buds, most don't yet. With luck I'll be eating tomatoes by christmas at this rate!

**Jimmy** · 01-06-2015, 02:30 PM

I had some french beans a frame. But had to move the frame to shelter the toms.
So the beans are now looking a bit dis-chuffed.
Jimmy

**muddled** · 01-06-2015, 02:34 PM

dis-chuffed

I have a mental image of beans flouncing about and slamming doors.
(life with a teenager is effecting my sanity

)

**Penellype** · 01-06-2015, 02:39 PM

The weather models are having big, big problems with the forecasts at the moment. The issue is that there is some very warm air just to the south of us, trying to push north, which is the classic summer heatwave scenario. A few days ago all of the models agreed that this was going to happen by next weekend and the media went over the top as usual. But, and it is a big but, we also have a very strong jet stream, which is responsible for the current fairly exceptional (for the time of year) low pressure system which is bringing rain and gales today and tomorrow. We are in the battle zone between the warm high pressure and the active jet stream. It only needs the high to ridge up a hundred miles or so further east (nothing at all on a world scale) to make the difference between us getting 28C and us getting 18C this weekend and that is the cause of the problem.

Current advice is to take notice of what the forecasts are saying for the next 2-3 days, and treat anything further ahead with a pinch (or large tablespoon) of salt.

**Valleyman** · 01-06-2015, 02:48 PM

Originally posted by Penellype View Post

The weather models are having big, big problems with the forecasts at the moment. The issue is that there is some very warm air just to the south of us, trying to push north, which is the classic summer heatwave scenario. A few days ago all of the models agreed that this was going to happen by next weekend and the media went over the top as usual. But, and it is a big but, we also have a very strong jet stream, which is responsible for the current fairly exceptional (for the time of year) low pressure system which is bringing rain and gales today and tomorrow. We are in the battle zone between the warm high pressure and the active jet stream. It only needs the high to ridge up a hundred miles or so further east (nothing at all on a world scale) to make the difference between us getting 28C and us getting 18C this weekend and that is the cause of the problem.

Current advice is to take notice of what the forecasts are saying for the next 2-3 days, and treat anything further ahead with a pinch (or large tablespoon) of salt.

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