"torge conrad maguar" wrote in message
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Have just been given a tomato plant about one foot high. We have a south
facing garden in north London. Would it make much difference to it, if I
brought it inside the house next to a south facing patio window? If it
would grow better tomatoes I would do it, even though I don't really have
room for it inside. (too many house plants in that location!)


Depends on the variety really. I grow Gardeners Delight in the greenhouse
and in the garden (against a SW facing wall) up here in Manchester, and both
do really well - although I'm convinced that the ones outside have a
slightly better flavour. The greenhouse ones are a few weeks earlier. You'll
probably be OK, unless it is a beef tomato variety - in my experience they
tend to be a bit tender, and don't like the rain at all. And just hope you
don't get any blight - I never do, but a friend across the village always
does and every year has to harvest the remaining toms within a couple of
hours of discovering it.

As for growing them in the house - my dad always had a growbag on every
south facing window ledge in the olden days when he didn't have the money
for a greenhouse. They always did OK, but the house reeked of tomato
foliage - nice until you have to live with it all the time!!