Tomato leaves curling advice please video

**veggiechicken** · 25-06-2018, 10:34 AM

What variety are the curly ones?
I grow Black Icicle and it always looks limp and curly. Its its nature.

**Mikey** · 25-06-2018, 10:48 AM

I've only got 6 varieties of tomatoes this year (normally I have 25-30!!), and one of those is a curler.

I think some tomato plants don't like direct sunlight so curl their leaves as protection from moisture loss. As long as it continues to grow and flower and you give it enough water I wouldn't worry.

**Billy's lad** · 25-06-2018, 10:51 AM

I cant remember which one is which , I pulled the end one away from the glass a bit more to see if it would help ,
The middle one at the end has some fruit on but has not done any more
Greenhouse is on an east west orientation

**Mikey** · 25-06-2018, 11:07 AM

I've only got the two greenhouses a 6 x 10 and a 12 x 8, some here have far more than I!!!

Telling one variety from another before it starts fruiting is like identifying a potato by the leaf, nigh on impossible!! Though if I was to guess by the fruit size I'd guess it's a standard size something like ailsa's craig, shirley, alicante or moneymaker? These tend to be the mainstay varieties available to buy at garden centres if you didn't grow from seed yourself?

Something I do as the fruit starts arriving is a bit of thinning. I take out all the leaf stems below the first fruit branch, and halve the leaf cover immediately above a fruiting branch so the fruit can see the light.

Now we are in full season, I'm also watering daily and feeding with tomato feed twice a week and a seaweed/comfrey feed once a week (homebrew). I'll feed alternate days as it doesn't take them long to exhaust their food source in tomato bags.

**Billy's lad** · 25-06-2018, 11:18 AM

I grew them from seed this year and they are money maker and gardeners delight I bought the greenhouse for 20 from fleabay and have only just started gardening as a way to connect with my terminally ill Dad
I have enjoyed it immensely but know diddly squat

Toms are watered at least once a day and have been feeding once a week

**nickdub** · 25-06-2018, 11:27 AM

Originally posted by Billy's lad View Post

I grew them from seed this year and they are money maker and gardeners delight I bought the greenhouse for 20 from fleabay and have only just started gardening as a way to connect with my terminally ill Dad
I have enjoyed it immensely but know diddly squat

Toms are watered at least once a day and have been feeding once a week

Can't be sure about this but the most likely problem is water shortage in the hot recent hot weather. Toms and a number of other plants need much more water than normal when its sunny and they are under glass.

Try standing the containers on something like trays with gravel/sand in, then, in addition to watering in the normal way, keep the trays full of water too. (Old paint top lids, cut out plastic containers or at a pinch cardboard boxes lined with plastic sheet can be used, if there are no trays available)

I'm watering a lot of stuff in my poly-tunnel 3 times a day at the mo.

**Billy's lad** · 25-06-2018, 11:34 AM

nickdub

The two sets on the lefthandside are in plastic trays under the growbags , there are no holes in the growbags other than the perforation at the end
If I put a moisture meter into the bags they register moist

**Mikey** · 25-06-2018, 11:37 AM

Originally posted by Billy's lad View Post

I grew them from seed this year and they are money maker and gardeners delight I bought the greenhouse for 20 from fleabay and have only just started gardening as a way to connect with my terminally ill Dad
I have enjoyed it immensely but know diddly squat

Toms are watered at least once a day and have been feeding once a week

Moneymaker are prone to curling don't worry, they aren't wilting so your watering is spot on. Don't overwater them though as irregular watering will cause blossom end rot where the tomato rots on the base, and overwatering will cause your fruit to burst and let disease in.
Keep to watering daily and if you don't already preferably at the end of the day so the plants have time to absorb the water overnight. If you do it in the morning or during the day the water will simply evaporate in the sun. Keep at it, they all look great.

**Potstubsdustbins** · 25-06-2018, 12:24 PM

Leaf curl is usually nothing to worry about on tom's providing you are giving them the correct care and it would seem you are.

A simple thing like a wide variation of day and night temperatures can cause leaf curl.

**Billy's lad** · 25-06-2018, 12:27 PM

Thank you all very much I will persevere , the ones with the curled leaves do have fruit on

**veggiechicken** · 25-06-2018, 12:48 PM

Your tomatoes look grand, Billy's lad. I wouldn't be worrying about them.
Just checked my Gardener's Delight toms and the fruit form on long trusses (like you see them sold 'On the Vine'). I think, as Mikey says, the curly ones and Money maker.
Keep up the good work - your dad must be proud of you.

**carly** · 26-06-2018, 01:32 PM

Some of mine are like this too I am watering once a day and feed once a week. They are producing some huge maters

**Billy's lad** · 26-06-2018, 04:37 PM

I never thought that the garden would be so absorbing but it gives me a real connection with my Dad and have been very surprised how relaxing it can be although i get frustrated mainly by my lack of knowledge

I have the two greenhouses a small potato plot a patio , couple of wildflower beds and the surprise garden which contains all of the plants that I have aqquired that I do not know what they are

**veggiechicken** · 26-06-2018, 04:57 PM

You never stop learning with gardening. That's one of the wonderful things about it. Soon you'll be eating your very own tomatoes, grown by you from seed. How magical is that?

As for your surprise bed!! If you can post some photos of the plants we may be able to identify them for you.

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