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Tomatoes still flowering
On 17 Oct 2009 12:46:35 GMT, wrote:
The old advice foe the home gardener is to cut off the stems above the top truss of green tomatoes i Sept. to direct the energy to the last fruit , but if you make green tomato chutney the why bother. If you heated the greenhouse you are growing them in then you could carry on croping them. I didn't think it was the heat so much as the sunshine that turned them red, so once you got to the shorter days, they would stop ripening. I think you'll find that heat does the trick rather than sunlight. In Spain for example, they usually grow toms on rows of "tepees" , deliberately so that the trusses dangle down inside the rows and get very little direct sunlight. And, of course, picked toms ripen very well in dark drawers. -- ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°¹ |
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