Mary Fisher wrote:
I haven't fed tomatoes for years - they grow in greenhouse borders (soil
never changed but scratched in and deposited on by hens during the winter
for the last few years) and in garden plots - four year rotation only, no
feeding as such.

We get a lot of tomatoes - this year I've sown and planted about thirty
plants of different kinds, I'll dry and freeze those fruit which overface us
for immediate consumption. I buy tomatoes very rarely and then only local
ones, even they are nothing like as good as our own :-)

Lots and lots of water though. Daily watering. There are butts all round the
garden and the greenhouse has a perforated hose just under or on the soil,
fed by a butt taking water from the house roof.

I might be doing all the wrong things of course!

Mary

I dare say you would have noticed :-) These will be (cross fingers and
toes) my first crop since I gardened with my Daddy too long ago for
comfort - and in a very different place where neither grow bags nor
green houses were ever needed for a successful crop.
(nostalgic sigh)

Cat(h)