How are your Toms doing?

[Chocolate8me]

My greenhouse has had condensation on the inside for over a week now & this morning I noticed a few rotted leaves on my tomatoes. I quickly snipped them off & left the door & window open for it to dry out but it's not made a tiny bit of difference until we get some proper heat.

One of my courgettes outside was half rotted so that had to go too... Not a happy bunny.

There are a load of tomatoes growing nicely but all green at the mo.

[redser]

I have still only had 1 tom. Lovely healthy plants lots of flowers and fruit but do to the weather nothing is moving on. So today we took a drastic step, all GH toms were reduce down to just 4 trusses in the hope that what is left will grow and ripen.

Colin

Has it helped at all?

[Sarico]

I have still only had 1 tom. Lovely healthy plants lots of flowers and fruit but do to the weather nothing is moving on. So today we took a drastic step, all GH toms were reduce down to just 4 trusses in the hope that what is left will grow and ripen.

Colin

i was thinking the same.... all my tomato are covered or in grow house or in a famous tomato frame... they are growin very well and very green and i was thinkin i may cut the top of because i'd rather have less tomato instead of hoping that i will have more...with 25 plants even 1 or 2 lb each will be great.. do you think is a good idea? i was thinkin in all my tomato even the gardenperle... i want tomatooooes

[Tripmeup]

Had my first ever home grown tomatoes yesterday
Admittedly they were only two small Tumbler Red but still it's a start....very nice they were too

[Potstubsdustbins]

The cordon toms are now starting to swell which means they will ripen. My friend cut back to 4 truss's about 2 weeks before me and he is starting to reap the benefit. So I would say yes in a year like this it is better to get some crop than none at all.

Colin

[horticultural_hobbit]

Fairly rubbish, this end. Think I have two babies. Some are flowering, but there's not an awful lot happening really.

[binley100]

I have fruit forming in various amounts on most of mine (well apart from the most recent armpits) ....no ripe ones yet tho'.....

[zazen999]

I have a few fruit. Not many though.

But one is starting to ripen. Guess which one.

Not the ones in the greenhouse. No.

Not the ones in the sheltered garden. Guess again.

Not the ones in the very sheltered courtyard. Another go?

Yes, one that was planted out dead early, when it had to be under enviromesh to keep the frosts away. And it did indeed get a little frazzled.

Amazing.

[Likac66]

I have loads of fruit - particularly on my tigerellas and cherries. All completely green though.

[Jamesy_uk]

Well my Alicante and Sungolds are both reaching 5ft plus now but I have had to be really careful tying them up as the stems are so leggy with th elack of light. all plants have set at least one truss and we had a few ripe sungolds sofar.

[chris]

That R.C.P is still dropping flowers, so I'm going to take it out. Loads of green fruit on everything else mind.

[Two_Sheds]

I'll go get a photo, hang on ...

1. the ripest ones in the gh (Golden Gem)
2. Roma, big but very green
3. the best of the 100s & 1000s (I pick about 6 toms a week )
4. lots of unripe Golden Gems

I have lots of foliage and a fair amount of fruit, it's just not ripening

[Nicos]

My outdoor cherries are about 30cm high and just starting to flower.

[Thelma Sanders]

I thought the early sown Gartenperles would crop until the bigguns started, but the GPs are running out of steam with only a few left and the cordons aren't ripening yet

and they're grown really leggy this year, with lots of nodes between fruit trusses on some of them.
The only variety that seems unfazed by the low light levels is San Marzano, which is as sturdy as ever
I just need them to start ripening now.

I've got a feeling that they'll taste 'wooly' like they did a few years ago when they were late ripening

[morverngirl]

Picked 1 last week, delicious sweet and red, gardener's delight ,I think, in polytunnel. Same variety outside are doing really well, large fruit but still green. Keep piling the comfrey leaves around base. Peppers eaten by ?????