On 31/08/2010 14:00, ®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:41:07 -0700 (PDT), furlow
wrote:

Hi,

I've been trying to search around on google to find any information on
how other peoples crops in the uk (I'm the east to be more specific)
have done this year. My first year of growing marrow has been great
they obviously seam to do great even at temperatures bellow 20C. My
problem has been with my tomatoes and peppers, I know they both fully
into two different speed growing catagories with the peppers going to
take longer to get a crop. The thing is though on my tomatoes I have
quite a few Trusses, although I only pinched out the growing tip only
a week ago after I decided to give up on getting any more than 3-4
trusses. My tomatoes just seam to be growing very slowly, I have them
outside and not in any poly tunnel or greenhouse, but they just
haven't produced this year, I'm usually not so good at getting my
plants out very early (around mid june), but I usually would have
gotten some tomatoes at least by now. I'm blaming the cold rainy
summer we have had this year. Although its actually quite nice today,
about 25C in the sun. Rant over, How has everybody else's Tomatoes
done?

Half of my greenhouse toms are on their 9th truss and growing out
through the top windows. I did remove sideshoots regularly but let
half of the plants carry on un-topped.
They are in greenhouse soil borders, fed regularly with alternating
tomorite and Miracle Grow. I water the soil copiously every second
day.

Cropping has been, and is, excellent, with many more pounds yet to
come.


I grow and have for a number of years, tumbling toms, this has been
their best year by far. Whereas my courgettes which normally crop in
abundance have been sparse. My onions have also cropped poorly, it never
is a good year for everything, that, I guess, is natures way.

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Residing on low ground in North Staffordshire