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"wafflycat" wrote: Good grief.. the amount of watering I'm having to do to the tomato plants in the greenhouse is astounding. They are taking up litre after litre after litre of watering... Even after a morning, mid-morning and lunchtime watering, I've noticed a couple of the plants wilting in the heat and the compost drying rapidly. And this is with doors open wide with a cooling through breeze. --- Touché! I have been advised not to give my tomato plants, which are potted up outdoors, too much water, for fear of eventual fruit split. What does the team think? MD |
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"Mike Derby" wrote in message ... "wafflycat" wrote: Good grief.. the amount of watering I'm having to do to the tomato plants in the greenhouse is astounding. They are taking up litre after litre after litre of watering... Even after a morning, mid-morning and lunchtime watering, I've noticed a couple of the plants wilting in the heat and the compost drying rapidly. And this is with doors open wide with a cooling through breeze. --- Touché! I have been advised not to give my tomato plants, which are potted up outdoors, too much water, for fear of eventual fruit split. What does the team think? MD If the plant is wilting then it NEEDS water or it will quickly die. |
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In message , Mike Derby
writes "wafflycat" wrote: Good grief.. the amount of watering I'm having to do to the tomato plants in the greenhouse is astounding. They are taking up litre after litre after litre of watering... Even after a morning, mid-morning and lunchtime watering, I've noticed a couple of the plants wilting in the heat and the compost drying rapidly. And this is with doors open wide with a cooling through breeze. --- Touché! I have been advised not to give my tomato plants, which are potted up outdoors, too much water, for fear of eventual fruit split. What does the team think? MD I'm a relative amateur at tomato growing, but I understood that uneven watering was the cause of bottom end blight, or splitting. That is - if you alternately starve them and then drown them, they will split. BICBW. -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply |
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In message , Martin
writes On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:25:18 +0100, Gordon H wrote: I'm a relative amateur at tomato growing, but I understood that uneven watering was the cause of bottom end blight, or splitting. That is - if you alternately starve them and then drown them, they will split. BICBW. The Dutch green houses are all white washed at this time of year. I'm not going to white wash my back bedroom window! -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply |
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In message , Martin
writes On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:30:02 +0100, Gordon H wrote: In message , Martin writes On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:25:18 +0100, Gordon H wrote: I'm a relative amateur at tomato growing, but I understood that uneven watering was the cause of bottom end blight, or splitting. That is - if you alternately starve them and then drown them, they will split. BICBW. The Dutch green houses are all white washed at this time of year. I'm not going to white wash my back bedroom window! In that case you need curtains I have curtains, and net curtains, but I know what you mean. -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply |
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