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Tomatoes still flowering
Bob Hobden wrote:
Still collecting 2-3lb tomatoes a day, which isn't bad for mid October, I must say. Ours out on the allotment are also growing again and flowering, not for long I fear. I put a few tomatoes out on the allotment just because I ran out of room in the greenhouses (I ran the plant stall at the school summer fete, and I ended up taking home more plants than I took, even after donating a huge amount to the school gardening club - at one point I had an entire double table of tomato plants! After a month of feeding them to the chickens (in hindsight, the idea of training them to eat my tomato plants may not have been my best ever!) I gave up and planted a bunch in a gap on the sweetcorn patch.) They weren't really treated very nicely - I didn't stake them or side-shoot them or feed them or anything, and it's kind of obvious. :-} Picked 18 lbs of ripe Toms last week and there will be more if they don't get frosted. I discovered a whole pile of red tomatoes that I'd previously not noticed yesterday! Greenhouse2 (actually the greenhouse of the lady whose garden backs onto ours who has kindly allowed our tomatoes to squat on her premises) is a bit of a jungle still. I keep trying to cut it back and failing miserably. |
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On Oct 16, 11:50*pm, wrote:
I still have 2 greenhouses full of ripening tomatoes, but the plants all seem to be busy flowering again. *Not just one or two varieties, but all 10 or so varieties are at it! Is it just the odd late summer we've been having confusing the poor things? *And is it worth letting them flower, or should I be snipping them back to encourage the green fruit to ripen on the vine? I don't remember having such vigorous growth at this time of year before! Lucky you, mine are all outside, a row of about 15 plants laden with fruit and now totally dead due to a vicious frost. If I were in your position, I would nip out. Judith |
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On 2009-10-18 11:02:28 +0100, Judith in France
said: On Oct 16, 11:50*pm, wrote: I still have 2 greenhouses full of ripening tomatoes, but the plants all seem to be busy flowering again. *Not just one or two varieties, but all 10 or so varieties are at it! Is it just the odd late summer we've been having confusing the poor things? *And is it worth letting them flower, or should I be snipping them back to encourage the green fruit to ripen on the vine? I don't remember having such vigorous growth at this time of year before! Lucky you, mine are all outside, a row of about 15 plants laden with fruit and now totally dead due to a vicious frost. If I were in your position, I would nip out. Judith We were pretty close to a frost last night, apparently - it certainly felt very brisk this morning! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
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On Oct 18, 11:30*am, Sacha wrote:
On 2009-10-18 11:02:28 +0100, Judith in France said: On Oct 16, 11:50*pm, wrote: I still have 2 greenhouses full of ripening tomatoes, but the plants all seem to be busy flowering again. *Not just one or two varieties, but all 10 or so varieties are at it! Is it just the odd late summer we've been having confusing the poor things? *And is it worth letting them flower, or should I be snipping them back to encourage the green fruit to ripen on the vine? I don't remember having such vigorous growth at this time of year before! Lucky you, mine are all outside, a row of about 15 plants laden with fruit and now totally dead due to a vicious frost. *If I were in your position, I would nip out. Judith We were pretty close to a frost last night, apparently - it certainly felt very brisk this morning! -- Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon The sun is shining here, brilliant blue sky but not as warm as it usually is at this time of year. Isn't it a bit early for you to have a near frost in Devon this early? Judith |
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Tomatoes still flowering
On 2009-10-18 11:40:25 +0100, Judith in France
said: On Oct 18, 11:30*am, Sacha wrote: On 2009-10-18 11:02:28 +0100, Judith in France said: On Oct 16, 11:50*pm, wrote: I still have 2 greenhouses full of ripening tomatoes, but the plants all seem to be busy flowering again. *Not just one or two varieties, but all 10 or so varieties are at it! Is it just the odd late summer we've been having confusing the poor things? *And is it worth letting them flower, or should I be snipping them back to encourage the green fruit to ripen on the vine? I don't remember having such vigorous growth at this time of year before! Lucky you, mine are all outside, a row of about 15 plants laden with fruit and now totally dead due to a vicious frost. *If I were in your position, I would nip out. Judith We were pretty close to a frost last night, apparently - it certainly felt very brisk this morning! -- Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon The sun is shining here, brilliant blue sky but not as warm as it usually is at this time of year. Isn't it a bit early for you to have a near frost in Devon this early? Judith It is, though it can happen. Some trees are turning quite quickly now and leaves are falling more. Some years, the trees are still green on Guy Fawkes night. -- Sacha |
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